Abstract
An AI agent harness wraps around a Kanban board and builds software stories into code changes. The core is deterministic: code decides the next stage through a fixed pipeline, and AI models only reason inside a step, with their output checked by code. A scheduler starts short-lived workers. Each run advances one story by one step, then exits, after claiming the story atomically from a ready queue. The harness stops and hands work back when requirements contradict, when a plan can't be completed, or when checks fail. A code-only gate approves builds into a Staged column, and a human merges.
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Recommended Citation
Heperi, Jaz, "A Deterministic Harness That Builds Software From a Kanban Board, One Story and One Step at a Time", Technical Disclosure Commons, ()
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/12984