Local agents: delegate a task from the board straight into your Claude Code

Local agents

The biggest update this month — delegating tasks to a local agent. You can now hand a board card not to a person but to a CLI agent already installed on your machine: Claude Code or OpenAI's Codex. It opens the right project, reads the task and does the work — right in your repository, on your hardware.

The glue is runlane-agent, a small local companion installed with a single command:

npx runlane-agent

It signs in to your Runlane account, listens to the board and, when you delegate a task, launches the right CLI agent for you. Keys and code never leave home: the agent uses your existing Claude Code or Codex login, works in your local folders and sends nothing anywhere — except run status back to the board.

The important bits:

• Two engines to choose from — Claude Code and Codex. Every task can carry a preset: model, effort level, file access mode and permissions.
• A project per task — link a repository folder, and the agent decides whether to work in a separate worktree or in-place.
• Run history — the card gets an "Agent runs" chip. Open it to see every run for the task: what happened and how it ended.
• Session resume — if a run got interrupted, Runlane remembers the session_id, and you can continue with a single command from where it left off instead of starting over.
• Clear error hints — not signed in, CLI missing, no permissions — the agent tells you exactly what to fix, tailored to the engine you picked.

For now this is a desktop story — the agent lives on your machine and can start with the system. Connection and status live in your profile, in the agents section.

The AI button is now two buttons

There used to be a single AI button above the board with a dropdown — reaching the action you wanted meant opening the menu first, then picking an item. We split it into two separate buttons side by side, no popover:

• "Tidy up" (the sparkle) — opens the board reorganization wizard: AI sorts cards into columns and brings order.
• "Chat" (the robot) — opens the AI assistant you can simply talk to about the board.

One action — one click. On a cramped mobile header both buttons collapse into icons, but the idea stays the same.

The new glass design — everywhere

Along the way, the whole app got a new visual language in the spirit of liquid glass: translucent surfaces, gradient borders, soft glows and a live shimmer on accent elements.

Both AI buttons are, at heart, one glass base: a gradient outline, primary glow and an animated highlight. The same signature now shows on the landing page (the hero glow), on the pricing and billing pages, in the task card with its glass inserts, and in small touches everywhere — sliders, menus, panels. The app looks more cohesive and more premium while staying light.