This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition
What I Built
I built Bodhiorchard — an open-source platform that replaces Scrum, Jira, and the team wiki with 12 specialised AI agents and a living 3D world you can actually walk around in.
I call the methodology Agent-Driven Development (ADD). Instead of story points, planning poker, and a graveyard of stale Confluence pages, the work lives in one place: a BUD (Business Understanding Document) — a single, vector-indexed source of truth that carries a feature from a Slack conversation all the way to production.
The agents handle the busywork I never wanted humans doing: triage, design drafts, tech plans, standups, test plans, estimation, retros. Your repos show up as trees in an orchard. Features are branches. The whole team walks around as avatars — WASD to move, emotes, houses you upgrade with points you only earn when something actually ships to prod and stays healthy.
The scoreboard is the part I'm proudest of: it rewards quality, not output. Ship a BUD to production: +1. A bug escapes to prod: -1. It scores the things AI is bad at and humans are good at.
Honest status: the platform, the BUD lifecycle, the code-dependency graph, skill profiling, and the 3D world are all live. The fully autonomous execution loop is still being built — today it's agents-assisted, human-in-the-loop. I'd rather undersell it than lie to you.
Demo
- Live site + walkthroughs: https://bodhiorchard.ai
- Teaser — inside the virtual world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxoqBI7BNxU
Two views ship today: GARDEN (the orchard) and GRAPH (a cross-repo dependency graph with Bus Factor, Threats, and BUD-stage lenses). Two Slack bots sit on top — one triages new requests and kills duplicates before they become tickets; the other answers plain-English questions like "are we on track for go-live?" straight from the live BUD.
Code
Open source, Apache 2.0, self-hosted — it runs on a Mac mini.
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bodhiorchard
Bodhiorchard is the open-source, self-hosted alternative to Jira and Linear for AI-native software teams. Specialised agents draft every spec, forecast cycle times, and reason over your real repositories, commits, and pull requests — replacing story points, standups, and stale tickets so engineers can focus on building.
Bodhiorchard™
Ship software, not Scrum ceremonies.
The open-source, self-hosted alternative to Jira & Scrum — AI agents run the process end-to-end, developers earn XP for what actually ships, and your data never leaves your machine.
Website · Quick Start · Why Bodhiorchard · The Twelve Agents · Docs · FAQ
▶ Watch the demo — a Slack message becomes a scoped, estimated BUD. No sprints, no story points, no standups.
Bodhiorchard replaces sprint, scrum, and Jira ceremony with Agent-Driven Development (ADD) — twelve specialised AI agents handle the busywork (triage, specs, estimates, test plans, retrospectives) while humans keep the decisions that matter, and developers earn XP for the work that actually reaches production. It's a self-hosted Jira alternative for the full lifecycle: intake → spec → design → development → testing → deploy → retrospective. The data plane stays on your hardware; inference runs through your choice of agent CLI…
How I Built It
This is a solo project. Nights and weekends, on my own, because I couldn't leave it alone.
The stack: FastAPI + Python 3.12 on the backend, Vue 3 + PlayCanvas for the 3D world, Postgres + pgvector for the BUD memory, and Redis underneath. Inference runs through Claude Code today, with Ollama and OpenAI on the roadmap so you can bring your own model.
The hard part wasn't the agents. It was the ontology — deciding that a BUD, not a ticket, is the atom of work, and that everything (estimates, design, tests, the retro's estimated-vs-actual drift table) hangs off that one object. Once that clicked, the agents became small. Each one reads BUD context over a local MCP server and writes back only in the three creative phases where a human is still driving.
The 3D layer looks like the toy. It's actually the point. A dependency graph as a spreadsheet is a chore. A dependency graph as an orchard you can lose an afternoon in — that's the thing that made me want to open it every day.
The Passion Angle
I've spent years watching good engineers spend half their week on Jira instead of building. That quietly made me angry. This is the project I built to get that time back — mine first, then anyone else's who wants it.
"Build well. Then go outside." That's the whole idea.
Bodhi means awakening. An orchard is a grove you tend on purpose. The name is the pitch.
If you've ever felt sprints were broken and wanted to do something about it instead of just complaining in retro — clone it, break it, tell me where I'm wrong. That feedback is the only prize I'm actually chasing.
Top comments (1)
The useful part of this experiment is that it treats process as something that can be simulated, not just complained about. I would be most curious where the 12-agent world breaks: ownership handoffs, priority conflicts, stale assumptions, or agents optimizing their local role while the whole delivery system gets slower.