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Claude Task Master

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An AI-powered task-management system you can drop into Cursor, Lovable, Windsurf, Roo, and others.

FreeFree tier
Type
Open Source

About Claude Task Master

Hamster is an AI-native planning platform for product teams that use AI coding agents. It replaces traditional sprint ceremonies with brief-based planning, allowing teams to align on what to build before agents execute. Hamster captures reasoning, constraints, and customer context in structured briefs, then generates scoped tasks with acceptance criteria that any coding agent can follow. It integrates with issue trackers like Linear and Jira via two-way sync, and its CLI syncs briefs and plans directly into the repository for agents to read. The platform supports multi-player collaboration for PMs, designers, and engineers to refine ideas together. Hamster evolved from Taskmaster, an open-source tool that gives coding agents structured plans, which has 1.5M+ downloads and 25K+ GitHub stars. Hamster extends that concept to the whole team, offering free, team, and enterprise tiers.

Key Features

Brief-based planning to capture reasoning, constraints, and customer context
Structured plans with scoped tasks and acceptance criteria for coding agents
Multi-player AI collaboration for product, design, and engineering teams
Two-way sync with GitHub, Linear, Jira, and other issue trackers
CLI that syncs briefs, tasks, and plans into the repository for agent consumption
Works with any AI coding tool including Cursor, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Codex CLI
Cloud agents for automated planning and execution
Strategies, goals, skills, and methods for team-level context

Pros & Cons

Pros
  • Removes ceremony of sprint planning, grooming, and estimating
  • Ensures AI agents deliver the right thing by providing full context (brief, reasoning, decisions)
  • Two-way sync keeps issue trackers current without manual updates
  • Works with any AI coding tool, making it universal for agentic development
  • Testimonials report 90% reduction in errors in Cursor and dramatically faster delivery
  • Free tier available for individual creators and small teams

Best For

High-agency founders prototyping and shipping features in hoursScale-up tiger teams collaborating and delivering fasterEnterprise product orgs maintaining autonomy while sticking to agreed outcomesReplacing sprint planning, grooming, and story point estimationGiving coding agents full context so they deliver the right functionalityAligning product, design, and engineering on what to build before development