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title: "Guidon - Context-First Project Management"
description: "Understand why your project exists. Track decisions, sources, and context alongside your tasks."
canonical: "https://useguidon.com/"
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# Guidon - Context-First Project Management

Understand why your project exists. Track decisions, sources, and context alongside your tasks.

- [Get started](https://useguidon.com/auth/signup)
- [Sign in](https://useguidon.com/auth/login)
- [Free Cloud plan](https://useguidon.com/#pricing)
- [Create an API key yourself](https://useguidon.com/developers#authentication)
- [Try the API and agent sandbox](https://useguidon.com/sandbox)
- [Guide for AI agents (llms.txt)](https://useguidon.com/llms.txt)

## For AI agents

Guidon is built to be used by agents as well as people. Everything below acts as a Guidon user, in the projects they can access.

- **MCP server:** `https://useguidon.com/api/mcp` (Streamable HTTP) - find, claim, update and hand back tasks; read and write decisions, knowledge, roadmap and memory.
- **REST API:** `https://useguidon.com/api/v1` - [OpenAPI 3.1](https://useguidon.com/openapi.json), JSON errors with codes, rate-limit headers, Idempotency-Key, cursor pagination, batch.
- **Authentication:** OAuth 2.1 with PKCE (MCP clients sign in on their own - [auth.md](https://useguidon.com/auth.md)) or a personal API key as `Authorization: Bearer guidon_...`.
- **Docs for agents:** [llms.txt](https://useguidon.com/llms.txt), [developer guide](https://useguidon.com/developers.md), a public [docs MCP server](https://useguidon.com/api/mcp/docs) and [/ask](https://useguidon.com/ask).
- **Discovery:** [ard.json](https://useguidon.com/.well-known/ard.json), [MCP server card](https://useguidon.com/api/mcp/server-card), [agent skill](https://useguidon.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json), [API catalog](https://useguidon.com/.well-known/api-catalog), [MCP manifest](https://useguidon.com/.well-known/mcp.json), [A2A agent card](https://useguidon.com/.well-known/agent-card.json).

## Everything a project needs to explain itself

Tasks alone don't tell you why a project looks the way it does. Guidon tracks the context around the work, not just the work.

### Task Board

A Kanban board for every project, with columns you control. Rename, reorder, or hide statuses to match how your team actually works.

- Drag-and-drop board per project
- Per-project column customization
- Filter and search across tasks

### AI Task API

Let AI agents pick up tasks and move them through the same board your team uses, from in-progress to done, without a human relaying updates by hand.

- Agents claim and complete tasks via API
- Full audit trail of AI-driven changes
- Human review built into the workflow

### Decisions

A running log of the architectural and technical decisions your team makes, with the reasoning attached, so the "why" survives past the meeting it was made in.

- Structured decision records
- Linked to the tasks and context they affect
- Searchable history of past tradeoffs

### Knowledge Base

Centralize the sources, docs, and technologies each project depends on, instead of scattering them across chats and wikis nobody checks.

- Tracked sources and references
- Per-project technology inventory
- One place new teammates can start

### Memory & Context Graph

Guidon remembers project knowledge over time and connects decisions, sources, and tasks to each other, so context isn't lost as a project grows.

- Persistent, searchable project memory
- AI-generated insights you verify before they count as fact
- A graph of relations between entities

### Roadmap

Plan in phases and see where a project stands at a glance, without losing the day-to-day detail the task board already tracks.

- Phase-based long-range planning
- Status at a glance across a project's lifetime
- Stays connected to the tasks underneath it

## Frequently asked questions

### What is Guidon?

Guidon is context-first project management for development teams. Every project has a Kanban board and, next to it, the decisions behind the work, the sources a team relies on, the technologies in use, a roadmap and a project memory - so whoever picks up a task, a person or an AI agent, also gets the reason it exists.

### Is Guidon free?

Yes, there is a free plan. Paid plans on Guidon Cloud raise the limits on projects, members and AI use; they are billed monthly or yearly and start with a 14-day free trial. Self-hosted Guidon has no limits at all.

### Can AI agents work on my tasks?

Yes. Create a free Guidon account, then generate an API key yourself in Profile > API keys, or connect an MCP client with OAuth. Guidon has a free plan and an example-task sandbox, so you can test the integration without a sales call. The agent finds a task, reads its full context, claims it, records what it tried and hands the work back to a person for review.

### Can I host Guidon myself?

Yes. Guidon is open source on GitHub and runs on your own server with plain PostgreSQL. The self-hosting guide walks through the setup.

### How can I try the API without touching real work?

Create a sandbox: a separate organization with example tasks that you can change freely and reset to the starting data with one request or one click.

### Does Guidon work with game engines?

Yes. There are plugins for Unity, Unreal Engine, Godot and Blender, in-game bug reports that land on the board, and Guidon Desktop for Windows, macOS and Linux.

### Can I delete my account and data?

Yes, at any time: Profile → Delete account on the website. The Privacy Policy explains what is stored and why.

## Company

- [About Guidon](https://useguidon.com/about)
- [Contact](https://useguidon.com/contact)
- [Sandbox for the API and agents](https://useguidon.com/sandbox)

## Legal

- [Terms of Service](https://useguidon.com/legal/terms)
- [Privacy Policy](https://useguidon.com/legal/privacy)