The board & tasks

Every task on the board carries the signal it came from — a crash, an analytics drop, a rage-click, or a raw idea — and moves through seven stages:

1. To Do — triaged signals, ready to pick up.
2. Planning — the agent drafts a plan.
3. Building — the agent writes the change.
4. Reviewing — review the change before it ships.
5. Ready for Release — awaiting your approval to ship.
6. Deploying — the ship is in progress.
7. Live — live in production.

The Reviewing → Ready for Release gate is deliberate: nothing ships without you approving it first.

Task cards & detail

Each card shows the task’s title, the signal it came from, its priority (or its RICE/ICE score, if you’ve turned that on), and where the agent is in the loop. Open a card to see the full detail: the agent’s plan, its questions (if it paused to ask one), the diff it produced, and its own test results.

Handing tasks to your own team

In management mode, you can hand a task off to your team instead of having the agent build it: exporting it opens a GitHub Issue with the plan and acceptance criteria included. Ratchet watches the issue and moves the task to Live automatically once your team closes it.