Bruto
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Bruto is a brutalist task board for coding with AI. Its notes live in your repo, and it’s free and open source.
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Bruto is a new task board aimed at people coding with AI, and it leans hard into the idea that the repo should be the source of truth. Notes live in the repository, so the context stays close to the code instead of drifting off into another app nobody checks twice.
The pitch is simple but pretty sharp: copy the context with one key, or let an agent work the board over MCP and answer inside each note. That makes Bruto less like a pretty planner and more like a working surface for actual code tasks.
It also tries to cover the boring-but-important stuff that usually gets lost in AI tooling. Standing rules, cross-project links, and a map of pages, APIs, and tables are all part of the package. In other words, this is about keeping the machine on a leash, not just handing it a keyboard.
Bruto is free and open source, which fits the whole “keep it in the repo” philosophy. Product Hunt tags it as a task management and developer tools launch, with a nod to GitHub, and the project has 27 followers on the page right now.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the right instinct: if AI is going to touch real work, the notes should sit next to the code, not in some shiny side room with bad memory. Open source and repo-first beats another glossy wrapper every time. The industry keeps acting like context is magic; Bruto at least treats it like plumbing.
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