How to run a software factory with Pad
Fleets of coding agents are real now. What they need is a factory floor: a queue, rules, procedures, and an audit trail. This is a working tutorial for building your own.
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News, updates, and thoughts from the Pad team.
Running multiple Claude Code sessions with Pad as shared memory
Cross-session messaging lets your Claude Code sessions talk, but messages are ephemeral by design. The pattern that makes what they learn stick.
Pad v0.11: open items in a pane, keep your place
A detail pane and item mini-browser that opens items next to your list instead of navigating away, board-by-default collections, collaboration and version-history hardening, and cross-workspace access fixes — all in the same single Go binary.
Pad v0.7: share collections, see your flow, tag across the workspace
Public read-only collection sharing at /s/<token>, an Insights page for cycle-time and flow, workspace-wide tags, a faster board, and richer comments — all in the same single Go binary.
Pad on Unraid Community Apps
Pad is now in Unraid's Community Apps. One click to install, your data lives on your server, your AI agents can talk to it.
Pad v0.4: real-time collab + local-first, in one binary
Multi-user live editing, agents-write-live, and an IndexedDB-backed read model that makes 5,000-item collection pages feel instant. All in the same self-hosted Go binary.
Claude isn't getting dumber. Your project is leaving the room.
The Reddit posts about Claude getting worse are describing something real, and diagnosing it wrong. Here's what's actually happening, why CLAUDE.md and 3-file systems are patches on the symptom, and what a structural fix looks like.
Pad's remote MCP server is here
Paste one URL into Claude Desktop, Claude.ai, Cursor, or Windsurf, sign in, and your Pad Cloud workspace is connected. No install, no API keys, no terminal required.
Connect Claude Desktop to your project in 30 seconds
Pad's local MCP server is here. Install the binary, run one command, restart Claude Desktop — and your AI agent can read your plans, create tasks, run your standup. Same for Cursor and Windsurf.
Pad Cloud is here: your project, on every device, with your team
The managed version of Pad is open today. Same data model, same CLI, same /pad skill — now with sync, team invites, and zero install. Self-hosted stays first-class.
Pad on Homebrew, signed and reproducible
You can now `brew install PerpetualSoftware/tap/pad`. Every release ships signed, with an SBOM, with build provenance — here's what each piece is and how to verify it.
Conventions and Playbooks: teach your AI agents your team's rules
Stop reminding your AI assistant about your team's rules every session. Encode them once as conventions and playbooks — and every agent in your project follows them automatically.
Project management built for makers, not managers
Most PM tools optimize for the wrong user. Here's what we believe, what we deliberately didn't build, and why agents change the equation.
Introducing Pad
Project management built for developers and AI agents. A single binary, a CLI, a web UI, and a natural-language skill — all in one.