Dev open-sources awit: plain-Git agent work item tooling with graph-based work queue
nilreference · reddit · 2026-09-23
After being stalled by bloated TICKETS.md files and a Gitea outage, the developer vibe-coded and open-sourced awit, an agent-facing work item tool.
Key design: work items live as plain Markdown files (avoiding one giant TICKETS.md), the whole thing runs on plain git, and a dependency graph is auto-generated from the items to drive a work queue. It identifies the most valuable items via transitive reduction/hull and counts how many items each one unblocks — the author deliberately rejects priority scoring as a bad fit here.
Also tried and dropped: an MCP interface (tool definitions just added token weight; the CLI worked well) and Chroma DB (overkill for tickets). Currently test-driving it and seeking honest feedback on how the approach could backfire long-term. Repo: github.com/eisenwinter/awit
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