Trello AI Agent — Codowave

Move Trello Cards Straight to a PR

Trello is where a lot of small teams actually plan their engineering work — a board, a few lists, cards with a sentence or two of context. The trouble is that a card describing a bug fix sits in Backlog just as long as a card describing a redesign, because both need a developer's afternoon. Codowave reads your board, picks cards that fit your filters, writes the code, runs your tests, and opens a GitHub PR.

Your board stays the way you run it. Codowave just turns the cards you route to it into mergeable code.

How the Trello Integration Works

Codowave connects to your Trello board and your GitHub repo. The card is the spec — you don't write a separate prompt. Codowave reads the card title, description, and labels, scores it against your rules, and gets to work.

1. Connect Trello and your repo. Authorize Codowave on the board and install the GitHub App.
2. Pick a trigger list or label. Tell Codowave which list to pull from — a dedicated Ready for agent list is the cleanest setup — or which label marks a card as agent work.
3. The multi-agent loop runs. Planner reads the card and decomposes it, Coder implements against your repo's patterns, Reviewer checks the diff, Tester runs your suite in an isolated container.
4. A PR opens and the card moves. Codowave opens a linked GitHub PR with test output attached and moves the card along your board — into Doing, then into a review list.

Nobody on your team has to change how they plan. They keep writing cards; a portion of them now ship without a developer picking them up.

Card-to-PR at a Glance

Because Trello cards are usually shorter than a Linear or GitHub issue, Codowave leans more on its clarifying-comment behavior — if a card is too thin to act on safely, it asks before writing code.

Safety and Cost Controls

Codowave runs in watch-only mode for the first week. It opens PRs and moves cards but never auto-merges. You review each PR and decide.

• Cost ceiling per run. Each agent run has a hard dollar cap. Hit it, and Codowave returns partial work instead of running up your Anthropic bill.
• Scoped to one list. Codowave only acts on cards in the list or label you configured. A card sitting in Ideas or Blocked is invisible to it.
• Isolated containers. Every card runs in its own per-org Docker container, so the agent never touches your local machine or another customer's code.

Why Backlog-First Beats Prompting

The point of a Trello board is that the work is already written down. Asking you to re-type each card as a prompt into a chat tool would defeat the purpose. Codowave reads the card you already wrote.

That backlog-first model is what lets it run unattended. It scores cards, picks the ones that fit, and works through them — overnight, over a weekend, whenever there's queue to clear. After about ten merged PRs, pattern memory learns your repo's conventions, so later PRs need less review. Codowave uses your own Anthropic Claude key, so the model and the spend are yours to control.

Get Started

1. Sign up at codowave.com/signup — the free plan covers 3 cards, no card on file required.
2. Connect your Trello board and your GitHub repo.
3. Create a Ready for agent list (or pick a label) and point Codowave at it.
4. Watch the first few PRs in watch-only mode.
5. Enable auto-merge for the card types you trust.

Plans start at $20/mo — see pricing.