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| Field | act | DuckDB | Backlog.md |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platforms | GitHub | Universal | Universal, Codex, Claude Code, Cursor |
| Local support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Paid API | No | No | No |
| License | MIT | MIT | MIT |
| Stars | 72437 | 42451 | 7130 |
| Last activity | — | September 28, 2026 | — |
| Install complexity | — | سهل — حزمة Python أو ملف CLI تنفيذي واحد | Easy — npm, Bun, Homebrew, or Nix |
| Category | Testing, Git, DevOps | Database | Multi-Agent, Git, Workflow |
| Best use | Best for a developer or small team that repeatedly edits GitHub Actions workflows and wants to test a job before pushing. It provides a local run log, while a final GitHub check remains necessary. It is not suitable when exact hosted-runner parity is required. | Best for an analyst, developer, or small team that needs to inspect and join large data files and rerun analysis locally. It adds reviewable SQL without database-server setup. It is not a multi-user transactional database for many small concurrent writes from separate processes. | Best for an individual developer or small team using coding agents and wanting to review the specification and plan before code. It keeps tasks, acceptance criteria, and decisions inside the project and exposes them through CLI, a local browser, or MCP. It is not a replacement for a centralized enterprise SaaS board with organization-wide permissions and reporting. |