udctl

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Onboard your agent to udctl⧉

Intro film

See it in under two minutes.

What is udctl

Honestly? It's a lot of things.

An agile tracker

boards, sprints, backlog, burndown — the loop you would otherwise run in Jira.

A knowledge base

every card is a Markdown document; notes, full-text search, a graph of links — the pages you would otherwise keep in Confluence.

A local notes folder

ud pull lays your tasks out as plain .md files Obsidian opens as a vault; ud push them back. Sync ships with self-hosting — nothing you buy on top — and image attachments manage themselves: pulled down as ![[…]] embeds, pushed back onto the card.

A virtual file tree

tasks, files, skills, diagrams — all hanging on one folder tree you browse like a file manager.

A ledger

expenses, budgets, accounts — multi-currency.

A calendar, plus a Gantt chart

kickoffs and deadlines on a month grid, and on a timeline.

A kubectl-style CLI

ud get, ud apply — the same cards, from your terminal.

An agent orchestra

hire a team of specialist agents — group them, hand off work, wake them on schedule; plus a butler living in your Telegram.

… self-hosted

the whole thing runs on your own machine — free for personal use, with no per-seat line on any bill.

Sounds like a lot to learn? It would be — if you were the one operating it.

You don't have to. Leave one sentence on any card — @dev fix this bug — and that sentence starts an agent session: bound to the card, progress written back onto it, the result replied right under your words. Board, CLI, chat — one copy of the data underneath. Your AI drives all of it; you learn none of it.

You just chat.
Alfred handles the rest.

A private butler living in your Telegram: he understands, remembers, delegates, tracks — and results return to the chat.

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Demo conversation — scripted example

Alfred

Private butler · online

Note this down: pricing page on the website by next Wednesday. And have someone look at that login bug from this morning.

Noted. I've created the pricing-page task and assigned it to webdev, due next Wednesday. The login bug is with prod-debug. I'll ping you when there's news.

—— two hours later ——

👍 nice

The lead angle

Don't want to learn an interface? Start with Alfred.

Everything above — tasks, ledger, the agent team — can be driven entirely by chatting with Alfred.

Meet Alfred →

One engine

Five angles, one udctl

Tasks & Boards

Everything is a task; views your way.

Notes

Long-form lives beside your tasks.

Finance

Multi-currency ledger, monthly rollups.

Agent team

AI colleagues you hire, team up, hand off to.

Self-hosted

Your data, on your own machine.

Architecture

How udctl is put together

To you, it's a conversation. Underneath: memory, orchestration, and scheduling — three systems resting on an execution layer that does the real work.

Starting today, hand it to Alfred.

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CLI reference · API reference

udctl

See it in under two minutes.

Honestly? It's a lot of things.

You just chat.
Alfred handles the rest.

Tasks, boards, notes —
one place.

Every task is a doc.
Search, and it's there.

A team of agents,
at your command.

Don't want to learn an interface? Start with Alfred.

Five angles, one udctl

How udctl is put together

Starting today, hand it to Alfred.

See it in under two minutes.

Honestly? It's a lot of things.

You just chat.Alfred handles the rest.

Don't want to learn an interface? Start with Alfred.

Five angles, one udctl

How udctl is put together

Starting today, hand it to Alfred.

You just chat.
Alfred handles the rest.