Let AI agents manage real work without letting them run wild.
wakala is an agent-safe, MCP-native task tracker where humans and AI agents share one source of truth — with strict workflow rules, tiny tool responses, and auditable project history.
What mistakes does your agent make when no one's checking?
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Everything an agent needs. Nothing it doesn't.
Built small on purpose, because every extra field is another chance for cost, confusion, or agent error.
Strict status transitions
Agents cannot skip review, close the wrong task, or invent unsupported states. The workflow is enforced by the tool, not by prompt discipline.
Shared human-agent state
Humans and agents work from the same tasks, comments, statuses, and history — no hidden scratchpads or private project state.
Token-friendly responses
Small tool payloads reduce AI operating cost and help agents focus on the work instead of irrelevant project noise.
MCP-native
Connect any MCP-compatible client directly. No scraping, no fragile UI automation, and no giant project-management API.
Enforced dependencies
Tasks declare what must happen first, and circular work is rejected by the binary — agents cannot run ahead of the plan.
Definition of done
Every task carries explicit acceptance criteria, so agents know exactly what "done" means — and humans review against it.
Responsible agent workflows need visible project state.
wakala helps companies move from AI experiments to AI execution without losing control, auditability, or engineering trust.
Better auditability
Know what agents touched, when they touched it, and how the work moved through the workflow.
Safer automation
Guardrails stop agents from making unauthorized workflow jumps or corrupting project status.
Faster AI adoption
Give agents a focused execution layer without forcing your team to replace its entire PM system.
Wakala works with your stack.
We're not trying to replace what your team already uses. Wakala is the controlled work layer where AI agents do their part — and the project state stays exportable as CSV, so the rest of your stack keeps doing what it does.
Your existing work tracker
Whatever tracker your team already lives in. Wakala doesn't replace it — it sits next to it.
Any MCP-compatible agent
Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode, Codex, Pi, Gemini — any agent that speaks MCP gets strict workflow guardrails for free, no custom integration code.
From agent chaos to controlled execution.
A simple workflow for teams that want AI agents to track real work safely.
Connect your MCP client
Point your agent at a small, deterministic issue-tracking surface.
Let agents create and update tasks
Agents pick up tasks with a clear definition of done, comment as they go, and progress status safely.
Humans review and approve
Keep human oversight in the loop with shared task history and enforced transitions.
Designed for the messy middle of human-agent work.
Use wakala wherever AI agents create, triage, update, or hand off project work.
Autonomous maintenance tasks
Track dependency upgrades, refactors, and cleanup work done by agents.
AI coding-agent bug triage
Let coding agents file issues and spawn fix tasks while humans retain review control.
QA agents reporting failures
Test agents can file structured issues with severity, reproduction notes, and status.
Support-to-engineering automation
Convert customer problems into controlled engineering tasks without losing context.
Multi-agent coordination
Give multiple agents one shared work state instead of scattered private memory.
AI governance pilots
Give business and engineering leaders visibility into how agents move work forward.
Why “wakala”?
Wakala means agency in Arabic — the office that acts on your behalf. The arrangement that lets one party delegate to another, within rules both can trust.
Your AI agents are agents in that sense, too: they act on your behalf, within the rules you set. Most agent tooling today treats them like tourists — handed a map, told to be careful. wakala is the agency that lets them do real work, with enforced guardrails both sides can see.