GitHub - claudiodangelis/banco: :file_folder: A project management tool for the command line

Banco Management System, or simply Banco, is an opinionated project management tool for the command line that helps you organize notes, tasks, bookmarks and documents for your projects.

Everything is stored as plain text files and folders — no database, no server. This makes it easy to back up, move around, use with standard CLI tools, and keep under version control.

Installation

Requires Rust.

Concepts

Items (notes, tasks, bookmarks, repos) are grouped into modules and backed by providers. The built-in local provider stores everything on disk with no external dependencies. Remote providers (GitHub, GitLab) sync issues as tasks and clone repositories via SSH. The JIRA provider fetches issues via the claude CLI and the Atlassian Rovo MCP server — no API token required.

Provider configuration lives in .banco/config.yml. String values support $ENV_VAR expansion so tokens are never stored in plain text.

Providers

Provider	Modules	Notes
`local`	tasks, notes, bookmarks, repos	Built in, no configuration needed
`github`	tasks, repos	Syncs issues and repositories via API + SSH
`gitlab`	tasks, repos	Syncs issues and repositories via API + SSH
`jira`	tasks	Fetches issues via `claude` CLI + Atlassian Rovo MCP server

AI agents

Banco is designed to be driven by an AI agent as naturally as by a human at the keyboard.

banco context emits a single JSON snapshot — providers, modules, items, and the exact labels/enum values each module accepts — so an agent always grounds its next command in real project state instead of guessing.
banco init scaffolds .banco/BANCO.md with agent-facing rules (always read context first, create items only through banco new, never touch files directly) and wires it into AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md, so any compatible coding agent picks up the same playbook automatically.
banco skills install claude drops ready-made Claude Code skills (like tidy, which finds orphaned data and asks before deleting anything) straight into .claude/skills/, turning banco-specific workflows into commands your agent can invoke on its own.

Documentation

Full documentation is available in docs/.

The name "Banco" is a tribute to Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso, the greatest Italian progressive rock band of all time.