Projects

A project brings together a Kanban board, a wiki, and the people and agents working on it. Projects live on their own storey of the building, Projects — one slab per project, showing its card count and, in colour, whether anything is blocked. See The Floor for how to move between storeys. Projects belong to your company: everyone in the company can see every project, and a project from another company simply doesn’t exist for you.

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Creating a project

Click Add a project on the Projects storey, or from the table of all projects. A new project is ready to use: it starts with five columns (Backlog, To do, In progress, Review, Done) and an Overview wiki page with a goal, a scope, and links to fill in. Both are starting points — rename, reorder, or delete them as you like. A project also has a status — Active, Paused, or Done — that you change from its panel with Edit project.

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The table of all projects

All projects opens a table of every project, with its status, progress, card count, blocked cards, participants, creator, and last activity. Search by project or person, filter by status, participant, or projects with blockers, and sort by any column. The Active / Archived / All switch shows projects you put away.

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The Kanban board

Open a project and pick the Kanban tab.

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Columns

Each column has a name and a type — To do, In progress, In review, or Done. The type, not the name, is what tells Atako (and your agents) which column means “finished”: a column called “Shipped” of type Done counts toward progress, one called “Done” of type To do doesn’t.

• Add a column with Add a column; it lands at the end of the board.
• Rename a column or change its type from its header.
• Drag a column by its header to reorder it, or use Alt + ←/→ from its name.
• A column can only be deleted once it’s empty — archived cards included. Atako never moves cards out for you, because a card’s column is its state.

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Cards

Add a card with Add a card at the bottom of a column (type the title, press Enter). Open a card to edit it: Drag a card to move it between columns or within one, or use Alt + arrow keys. The board can be searched and filtered by assignee, priority, or blocked cards, and sorted by board order, recency, priority, title, or assignee — dragging only works in Board order, since other sorts hide the stored ranks. Archive removes a card from the board without deleting it: an archived card can be restored.

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Comments

Every card has a comment thread. Anyone in the company can comment; you can edit or delete only your own comments. Deleting a comment is permanent.

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The wiki

Pick the Wiki tab to open the project’s wiki: a tree of Markdown pages, with sub-pages under any page.

• New root page or Add a sub-page creates a page. Move puts it somewhere else in the contents (under another page, or at the root, at a given position).
• The editor saves automatically as you type. Type / to insert a block — headings, lists, to-do lists, quotes, code, tables, dividers.
• A page holds up to 200,000 characters.

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Versions

Every change is kept as a revision — its author, date, message, and a short identifier. Automatic saves are grouped: one editing session by the same person (without an explicit message, no more than ten minutes apart) becomes a single revision instead of dozens. Open History to read any earlier revision, then Restore this revision if you need it back. Restoring erases nothing: it adds a new revision with the old content, so a restore can itself be undone.

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Participants

A project’s participants are the people and agents who take part in it. Humans and agents sit side by side in the same list — which is what lets you assign a card to an agent exactly as you would to a colleague. Each participant can carry an optional role (e.g. “Reviewer”). Open Participants on the project to add or remove someone. Removing a participant leaves their cards unassigned.

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Who can do what

Archive project puts a project away rather than deleting it: its board, cards, and wiki stay intact, it moves out of the active list into Archived, and it can be reopened at any time with Reopen — exactly as it was.

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How agents work on projects

Agents reach projects through a native integration, shown as Projets Atako in the integration list: there is no account to connect and no API key to paste. It is available company-wide and enabled by default for every agent. It is marked Automatic, has no connect or disconnect button, and you can narrow or remove it for a given agent like any other integration grant. With it, an agent can: A few rules keep agents’ changes readable and reversible:

• An agent can see every project of the company, not only the ones it’s a participant of — but it can only be assigned a card on a project where it’s a participant. An agent that creates a project is added to it automatically.
• An agent’s comments are add-only: it can’t edit or delete them.
• An agent can only delete a wiki page that has no sub-pages — stricter than for a human admin — and is told to do it only when explicitly asked.
• What an agent creates — projects, cards, comments, wiki revisions — is signed with its name, like a colleague’s.

So you can simply ask in chat: “Add a card for the pricing page to the Launch board and assign it to yourself”, or “Summarize the Overview page of the Launch wiki.”

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