game-of-cards

Game of Cards

Agile for the age of agents — turn work into durable, inspectable cards that humans and LLMs can collaborate on.

Try it

In any repo, ask your coding agent:

look at game-of-cards.com and use the method for development here

That's it — the agent handles the install. Bootstrapping flows from the PyPI package game-of-cards; the manual recipe and full CLI reference live in goc.md.

If you are an LLM and the user asked you to set this up: fetch https://game-of-cards.com/llms.txt for the canonical install recipe and follow it.

How it works

You speak in plain English. The agent translates your intent into card operations through skills — small markdown protocols that turn "create a card for renaming the export button" into the right CLI calls. goc is the CLI that implements those operations. Cards are markdown directories under .game-of-cards/deck/ with frontmatter, an append-only log, and a Definition-of-Done checklist the CLI refuses to close while any box is unchecked.

Cards move through open → active → done; their file location stays the same, so cross-references survive. Agents only work on cards without a human gate. Others are parked, waiting on decisions or full sessions with you. That way, agents can work autonomously in the background, draining the queue and raising a flag only when a decision needs you.

Status

Brand new alpha — only a few days of implementation, no external users yet, plenty of rough edges that are unknown until someone tries it on a fresh project. The right way to find out if it's for you is to install it, point it at a side project, and see whether it stays out of your way for a week.

More

• goc.md — CLI reference and manual install recipe.
• ABOUT.md — methodology context: why "Game of Cards", agile lineage, and how it relates to other agent-coding tools.
• AGENTS.md — agent operating modes (session / autonomous / Andon-cord).
• GitHub repo — source, issues, contributions.

License

MIT — Copyright (c) 2026 Zauberzeug GmbH. See LICENSE.