v1.8.0 · public beta · local-first

A project
manager your
agent actually
operates.

Not a task manager your agent can read. A structured system it lives inside of — reading your backlog, dispatching work, and building memory across days and weeks.

macOS · Windows · Linux·MIT licensed

Context-switching is where work dies. Qalatra keeps your tasks, notes, and agents in one place — so you return to work already done.

◆ What Qalatra does

Four pieces.
One living system.

Priority · Apr 22
WORK · 4
Review PR #482 — agent dispatchercode● running
Draft Q3 OKRsdeep-work
Triage investor replyemail
Ship muzebook launch copywriting
PERSONAL · 2
Call electrician re: studio wiringhome
01

A real database for tasks.

SQLite on your machine. Projects, contexts, priorities, recurrence, due dates, energy levels, agent assignments. Your AI doesn't scan a markdown file — it queries a schema.

  • structured fields agents can reason about
  • full-text search across years of history
  • connect to anything with an MCP server
daily · 2026-04-22
Wednesday, April 22
## morning
— coffee · gym @ 7
— agent briefing: 3 focus items, 2 dispatched
## thoughts
the dispatcher bug only shows up when agent.config is missing a shebang.
## [[people/christy]]
— picked sushi spot for Friday. don't forget flowers.
02

Daily notes with actual memory.

A structured journal stored in your database — not flat files. Daily stand-ups, meeting notes, half-baked ideas. Your agent reads and writes them directly, so yesterday's context is always in scope.

  • daily and weekly reviews that include everything
  • agent can append, annotate, or summarize
  • your notes live in the database alongside your tasks
agent:morning-briefing · ~/work/qalatra
$ morning-briefing
03

Agents that operate, not just read.

Any folder with an agent.config becomes dispatchable. Assign one to a task and Qalatra runs it, captures the output, and surfaces it for your review. You come back to work already done.

  • works with any command-line agent — Claude Code, Codex, opencode
  • MCP server exposes hundreds of tools across connected systems
  • schedule, queue, or trigger on events
Habits · week of Apr 20
M T W T F S S
Morning pages🔥 12
Ship one thing🔥 28
Read 30m5
No phone before 10am🔥 3
04

Habits, kept honestly.

Streaks, cadence, and your agent checking in. The tracker the app actually needs, not a dashboard for dashboards.

  • daily / weekly / custom cadence
  • agent nudges, never notifications
  • streaks and history your agent can reason about
◆ An agent that knows your work

Open a terminal.
Your context is already there.

Drop into Qalatra's integrated terminal for long-form planning, deep-dive conversations, or anything that needs more than a task card. Bring Claude Code, Codex, opencode — any MCP-compatible agent connects directly to your tasks, notes, and backlog. No setup. Your whole system is already in context.

mcp:get_overdue_tasksmcp:get_daily_notemcp:get_todays_tasksmcp:morning_briefingmcp:create_taskmcp:search_tasks+ 40 more
See full MCP reference
~/agents/triage
◆ More of what it does

Free and open source.
Everything included.

Integrated terminal

A real shell docked inside the app. Open fullscreen, run agents interactively, or leave it idle while you work tasks above it.

Local-first, yours

SQLite. Plain markdown notes. Everything on your machine, versionable, backup-able, portable. No telemetry.

Four views, one database

Priority, Project, Backlog, Habits. The same data under four angles.

MCP-native

A built-in Model Context Protocol server on :3457. Any MCP-aware agent gets structured access to your whole system.

Queue, schedule, dispatch

Agents run in the background on a schedule, triggered by a task, or queued manually. Jobs are tracked — you see what ran, when, and what came back.

Open source, MIT

The whole thing's on GitHub. Fork it, self-host it, write your own agents. The roadmap is public.

◆ Coming later this year

A synced web companion.
Your local brain, everywhere.

Qalatra stays local-first. But sometimes you're on a phone, at a conference, or on a borrowed laptop. The web app syncs your tasks and notes end-to-end-encrypted so your agent's context follows you.

still you → still e2ee → still your own backend if you want

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v1.8.0 · public beta · time estimates, capacity planning, and event cleanup.