A single-file, zero-dependency task board you drop into any project. Two owners (e.g. you vs your coding agent), each with one consolidated plate, plus a map view that draws the whole project as a transit map — one line per track, converging on a terminus (GO LIVE), each line's current bottleneck pulsing.

"Ready" is never stored — it's derived. Every task lists its deps; a task is blocked until all of them are done. Complete one and anything it unblocks animates into Up now.

No build. No framework. No npm install. It's one HTML file that runs from file://.

Grab it and go:

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rockthemike712/mission-control-board/main/board.html
open board.html   # then edit the <script id="seed"> block to make it yours

Tap any station and the map answers back — completing a task ripples through its dependents, and the 🔓 toast names exactly what just unblocked:

The whole project on one screen — one line per track, cross-track dependencies as connectors, everything converging on the GO LIVE terminus:

Each owner's plate: Up now (tap the ring to complete), then Waiting and Done.

The Lines view — each track as a subway diagram; ⛓ chips jump to the blocker.

Light theme is built in (tap ◐):

The screenshots use the included examples/nabshift.seed.json — a scrubbed, real-world board. Your own board is whatever you put in the seed.

open board.html          # macOS
# or
xdg-open board.html      # Linux
# or serve it
npx serve .

Out of the box board.html shows a small demo project so you can click around. Then you make it yours by editing one thing: the seed.

Everything project-specific lives in a single JSON block near the bottom of board.html:

<script id="seed" type="application/json">
{ "config": {...}, "rev": 1, "tracks": [...], "tasks": [...] }
</script>

Edit that block, save, refresh. The engine above it (the <style>, the map module, and the main <script>) is generic and never needs touching.

Two ways to work:

1. No build — copy board.html into your project, edit the inline seed by hand. Done.
2. Optional builder — keep your seed in its own file and inject it:

   node build.js my-project.seed.json > board.html

   Zero dependencies; purely a convenience for keeping one engine + many seeds.

{
  "config": {
    "boardId": "my-project",                 // namespaces this board's localStorage + sync payload
    "title": "My Project — Mission Control",  // browser tab title
    "wordmark": "MY PROJECT",                 // header wordmark (plain text)…
    "wordmarkHTML": "MY<span class=\"accent\">PROJECT</span>", // …or opt into an accent span
    "eyebrow": "Mission Control",             // small line under the wordmark
    "mapLabel": "MAP",                        // third tab label (optional)
    "terminusMessage": "🎉 SHIPPED 🎉",        // toast when the terminus task completes

    "lanes": [                                // exactly two — the two owners
      { "id": "me",    "label": "ME",    "name": "Me",    "subtitle": "your whole plate",
        "glyph": "M", "color": "#FFB020", "world": true },
      { "id": "agent", "label": "AGENT", "name": "Agent", "subtitle": "the agent's plate",
        "glyph": "A", "color": "#45E0FF" }
    ],
    "ext": { "label": "WORLD", "glyph": "⧗", "color": "#8B95AC" }
  },

  "rev": 1,               // bump when you commit a new seed; old device deltas merge under it
  "updated": "2026-07-24",

  "tracks": [             // the "lines" on the map; each task belongs to one
    { "id": "build", "name": "Build", "color": "#F472B6" }
  ],

  "tasks": [
    {
      "id": "b-core",              // stable, unique; other tasks reference it in `deps`
      "title": "Build the core feature",
      "short": "Core",             // one-word keyword shown on the zoomed-out map
      "owner": "me",               // a lane id, or "ext" for the outside world
      "status": "open",            // "open" | "done"
      "track": "build",
      "deps": ["b-scaffold"],      // blocked until all of these are done
      "priority": "high",          // "high" | "medium" | "low"
      "doing": true,               // optional — shows an "in flight" marker
      "terminus": true,            // optional — at most one task; forced to the bottom, drawn as GO LIVE
      "detail": "One line of context.",
      "ref": { "label": "spec", "href": "https://…" }  // optional link chip
    }
  ]
}

Rules the board relies on (all checked by the test):

• Two lanes. config.lanes has exactly two entries — the two owners. Labels, colors, and glyphs are yours.
• owner: "ext" is the reserved id for the outside world (a number arriving, a vetting queue clearing). Ext tasks surface on whichever lane is marked "world": true (default: the first lane), pulsing until you tap ✓ when the world delivers.
• One terminus, at most. Flag the final task "terminus": true; the map forces it to the bottom and draws every line converging on it.
• Every dep must resolve to a real task id, and the graph must be acyclic.

Taps persist per device in localStorage as deltas over the committed seed — so pulling a newer seed merges cleanly under your local changes, and a delta the seed catches up to self-cleans. The Sync button (lights up when you have local changes) exports a compact payload:

{ "kind": "my-project-board-sync", "rev": 1, "at": "…",
  "done": ["task-ids…"], "reopened": [], "added": [tasks…], "removed": [] }

Apply it to the seed to make it permanent — hand it to your coding agent to commit, or edit the seed by hand. Discard local changes (in the Sync sheet) resets the device to the committed board.

node tests/smoke.js

Zero dependencies. Validates every seed (the demo in board.html + everything in examples/): two lanes, valid owners/tracks/statuses, unique ids, deps resolve, the graph is acyclic, at most one terminus — and reproduces the engine's readiness derivation to prove a blocked task unblocks when its deps complete. Also asserts the engine carries no project-specific coupling.

For UI changes, also smoke it in a real browser: open board.html, tap a ring in Up now and confirm the 🔓 unblock toast, switch to Map and confirm stations render and tap to toggle, and check both light and dark (the ◐ button).

• nabshift.seed.json — a real launch board (six tracks, ~49 tasks, cross-track deps, a world lane, a terminus), kept as a worked example of a filled-in graph. Scrubbed of the originating project's private details. View it:

  node build.js examples/nabshift.seed.json > nabshift-board.html && open nabshift-board.html

• content-pipeline.seed.json — an editorial board (Writer / Editor lanes, Research → Draft → Edit → Publish), showing the same engine on a non-software workflow.
• job-search.seed.json — a personal board (Me / Mentor lanes, ending at OFFER SIGNED) — proof the two "owners" can be you and anyone helping you, not just you-and-an-agent.

Each is a different shape — different lane labels, tracks, and terminus — all from the same unchanged engine. Copy whichever is closest to your project and edit from there.

"I think you may have come up with a pretty ingenious way of looking at how we develop with AI from now on. I think this is really useful. I'm going to play around with it this weekend. Well done!" — mwilsonsc

"This is so awesome! This seems like what I wanted and what I was trying to come up with in my head so I could ask Claude to build it, but I didn't actually know (if that makes sense lol — like what I envisioned that I would envision, but couldn't). Great job! I'm going to take a deeper look into it when I have the time." — da_martian

"I made a kanban style mission control but this looks really slick. I'd check it out for sure." — angelarose210

This folder is self-contained — nothing outside it is required. To make it a standalone repo you reuse across projects:

# from a copy of this board-kit/ folder
git init
git add board.html build.js README.md examples/ tests/
git commit -m "Mission Control task board"
# create an empty repo on your host, then:
git remote add origin git@github.com:<you>/mission-control-board.git
git push -u origin main

Add a CI check (optional) so a bad seed can't merge — GitHub Actions:

# .github/workflows/ci.yml
name: ci
on: [push, pull_request]
jobs:
  smoke:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with: { node-version: 20 }
      - run: node tests/smoke.js

Then per project, either copy board.html and edit its seed, or keep a *.seed.json per project and node build.js project.seed.json > board.html. Each board's device state is keyed by config.boardId, so several boards coexist on one machine without colliding.