What is kanboard-plugin-kanai?

KanAI is a plugin that connects an AI assistant to Kanboard, an open source project management tool. It is built to run fully on a local language model through Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM, or any similar server, so project data stays on your own machine by default. An administrator can also allow outside providers like Anthropic Claude or OpenAI, but only if they choose to turn that option on, and they can shut off all outside AI access with a single switch. Each project gets a shared chat tab where team members can ask questions and hold multiple conversations, all visible to everyone on the project. Answers show which model produced them and how long they took, and questions run in the background rather than tying up the web page, so even a slow model can answer without the browser timing out. Beyond answering questions, KanAI can suggest changes to the board, such as creating a task, moving it to another column, assigning an owner, or adding a comment. Importantly, it never makes these changes by itself. It proposes a list of actions, a person reviews them, and only the ones a person approves get applied, using that person's own account and permissions so nothing bypasses the normal rules of the board. There are quick preset buttons for common requests like a project summary, a stand up note, or a list of risks and blockers. Projects can also opt into an automatic daily digest that gets posted as a fresh conversation, which can be scheduled to run on a set time each day. Security is a stated focus: outside AI access is controlled only by the application administrator, not by individual project managers. Any content pulled from the project is treated as untrusted before being shown to the model. API keys are encrypted and never sent to the browser, and there is a limit on how many questions a person can ask per hour. To install it, the plugin folder is placed inside Kanboard's plugins directory, and it requires Kanboard version 1.2.46 or newer along with PHP 7.4 or newer.