Backlog.md: The simplest project management tool for the AI Era
summary
Backlog.md is a terminal‑centric project manager that stores tasks as markdown with front matter, acceptance‑criteria checkboxes, implementation plans and a global definition of done, and it syncs via git to work offline. It integrates with agents (Claude, Codex, Cursor, Opus or cloud agents) via CLI or MCP, uses subagents for per‑task execution, and shifts work from a ~50% hit rate to about 95% success rate by splitting features into small tasks. The repo hits ~4.6k stars and the project claims 99% AI-written code and includes a terminal-based CLI + web UI.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:34Evolution of AI coding
- 7:51AI agent journey
- 15:09Backlog.md overview
- 21:14Backlog.md features
- 26:32Live demonstration
- 36:01Conclusions and Q&A
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