ManoA fast planning loop for AI-assisted development

From an idea to an approved plan ​

Mano gives your coding agent a repeatable way to plan and implement small pieces of work. Describe a change, review the proposed scope, and let the agent build against the decisions you approved. The plans and progress stay in your repository as readable files.

Start in your project ​

In a terminal, from your project's root directory:

npx mano-plan install

Then open your coding agent's chat in the same project and describe your first change:

mano start
I want to add a contact form. Keep the first phase small.

Mano proposes a scope and waits for your approval. Installation runs in the terminal; mano commands go in chat.

Follow the setup guide → · See a real phase →

The loop ​

mano start      →  scope a phase, and approve it yourself
mano spec       →  settle the technical decisions
mano rules      →  pin the conventions so stories stay consistent
mano stories    →  decompose into self-contained units
mano dev        →  implement the next story
mano review     →  record what held, what didn't, and close the phase

Nothing forces that order. Every action checks its own inputs and tells you when it would be guessing.

For a phase that doesn't need story files, mano build implements the brief's approved scope items directly, tracked in a ledger on disk.

Beyond the loop ​

Optional, none of it on by default:

Built with Mano ​

Mano is not a demo. These are real projects, and their planning artifacts are public:

Two unrelated stacks, one loop. Read the actual artifacts →