Useful guidance for the work ahead.
Set up a project, keep its context useful, and connect the people and tools doing the work.
9 guides
Start your first workspace and sprint
Create a Chessboard workspace, invite teammates, write or read project documents, add tasks and plan your first sprint.
Read guideTurn scattered notes into shared scope
Prepare plain-text project notes, review Chessboard's draft, correct specific sections and approve supplemental updates without changing commitments.
Read guidePlan work your team can actually take on
Set a sprint goal, review team capacity, choose ready tasks, approve a proposal and handle mid-sprint changes explicitly in Chessboard.
Read guideMake the next sprint better informed
Complete a sprint, save results and team observations, review unfinished effort and include optional improvements in the next Chessboard plan.
Read guideA workspace is a home. A team does the work
Learn the difference between workspace membership, team participation and project scope, including the Default team and team planning settings.
Read guideKeep repository progress beside the task
Connect selected GitHub repositories and link issue, pull-request and check observations to Chessboard tasks while keeping task completion human-controlled.
Read guideWrite a useful project document
Create a Chessboard document, use local writing tools, add a Mermaid diagram, link reviewed context to a task and export your Markdown.
Read guideConnect an AI tool to a bounded piece of work
Connect a compatible MCP client to Chessboard, choose project and document grants, share context and review an agent’s proposed changes.
Read guideChoose when to use AI and what it costs
Understand free local writing tools, quoted AI actions, pooled monthly credits, purchased credit pools and external MCP model billing in Chessboard.
Read guideStart with your next project.
Create a Free workspace. Bring the people and context the work needs.