Paca

An AI-native, self-hosted project management platform where AI agents and people work together as teammates in a Scrum team.

2k stars, 186 forks Go On GitHub since March 2026

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What is Paca?

Paca is built around the idea that AI agents should be members of the team rather than chatbots on the side. Agents take part in a Scrum process with people, picking up and updating work items alongside them, and an MCP server and Paca Skills connect external agents. It presents itself as a free, lightweight and customizable alternative to Jira, Trello, ClickUp and Monday. Desktop apps exist for macOS, Windows and Linux, and 9 translations of the interface are available.

Good fit if

  • You want AI agents to work on tickets inside your project tool.
  • You run Scrum and want to experiment with mixed human and AI teams.

Look elsewhere if

  • You want a proven tracker without AI at the center: Plane or OpenProject.
  • You want a lighter install: the compose file starts about ten services. Kaneo is smaller.

Before you adopt it

Paca is Apache-2.0, with no paid parts. It is very new, first published in March 2026, and a Helm chart is included for Kubernetes.

Drafted with AI from the project's README and repository data, then checked against that data on 30 October 2026. Report a correction

Paca health: is it still maintained?

83 of 100, actively developed

  • Activity
    874 commits in the last 90 days, the latest on 1 November 2026.
    30 / 30
  • Contributors
    4 people wrote the latest 100 commits; the most active wrote 73% of them.
    9 / 20
  • Releases
    14 releases in the last 12 months; the latest, v0.19.2, on 22 October 2026.
    19 / 20
  • Replies to issues
    Maintainers answered 100% of recent issues, with a median first reply after 9 hours.
    20 / 20
  • Security practices
    No OpenSSF Scorecard for this repository yet, so this part gets a neutral score.
    5 / 10

Read from GitHub on 1 November 2026. How the score works

Paca license: is it open source?

Paca uses Apache-2.0, an open-source license approved by the OSI.

  1. March 2026First published on GitHub.
  2. TodayApache-2.0.

How to run Paca yourself

Docker
Dockerfile or compose file in the repository
Compose file
deploy/docker-compose.e2e.yml: 10 services (postgres, redis, proxy)
Setup effort
4 of 5, judged from the compose file
Kubernetes
Helm chart in the repository
Desktop and mobile
Builds for macOS, Windows, Linux, including ARM in GitHub releases
Interface languages
9 languages

Install instructions: paca-ai.org or the README on GitHub.

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Questions about Paca

Is Paca open source?

Yes. Paca is published under Apache-2.0, an OSI-approved open-source license.

Is Paca still maintained?

Its health score is 83 of 100 (actively developed). It had 874 commits in the last 90 days, the latest on 1 November 2026, and its latest release came out on 22 October 2026.

How do I run Paca?

You can run it with Docker, on Kubernetes with the Helm chart in the repository, as an app for macOS, Windows, Linux, including ARM. The README on GitHub has the exact steps.

What are the alternatives to Paca?

Close alternatives in the Project & task management category include Kaneo, OpenProject, Plane.