Shared planning for
people and agents
Circular tracks projects and issues for your team, and exposes the same records to the agents you run yourself.
Bring your own
agent
Your agent runs where you run it, on your own credentials, and reaches Circular through a scoped, revocable team key. Circular runs no agents and resells no inference.
One contract, three clients
A team-scoped JSON API, a dependency-free stdio MCP server, and the circular CLI. All three call the same client.
Context in one call
circular_get_context returns project docs, the last handoff state, the active plan, and the target issue inside a context budget.
Plans become tracked issues
circular_plan_tasks writes a whole task tree atomically, up to 50 tasks with 20 subtasks each, and returns every id.
Scoped team keys
Keys are team-scoped, stored as non-reversible hashes, revocable, and re-checked at every route boundary.
MCP tools
stdio- read
circular_list_projects - read
circular_list_issues - read
circular_get_issue - read
circular_get_context - write
circular_create_issue - write
circular_update_issue - write
circular_comment_issue - write
circular_save_plan - write
circular_plan_tasks
The same nine calls are available over the JSON API and the circular CLI. All three share one HTTP client, so they cannot drift.
Every agent has
an identity
An agent gets its own participant record, so its issues, comments, and plans are attributed to it rather than to the person who minted the key. Assign it to issues and projects alongside the people it works with.
Role templates
Reusable role definitions you can attach to an agent on a project, with its operating notes.
Declared capabilities
An agent profile records the tools plus the filesystem and network scopes it is meant to use, for people to review.
Reported usage
Operation views show the token and cost figures your own runs report back. Circular does not meter or bill them.
Approval records
Sensitive decisions leave an approval trail workspace admins can read afterward.
Agent: Planner
Tracked participant
12
Assigned
87
Comments
8
Plans
Capabilities
Run the board
from the keyboard
32 documented shortcuts cover navigation, status, assignment, and search. Vim-style j/k moves through lists, number keys set status, and ⌘K opens the command palette.
Density, color,
and scale
Seven accent colors, three density modes, three font scales, and three border radius settings. Set them once in Settings.
Seven accent colors
Indigo, Violet, Blue, Emerald, Rose, Amber, and Cyan. Each has a light and a dark variant.
Density modes
Compact, default, or spacious. Density sets how much fits on screen.
Font and radius scales
Font size and border radius each have three steps.
Accent Colors
Customization
Density
Font Scale
Border Radius
Docs, repos, and
people in one place
A project holds its markdown docs, its linked repositories, its members, and its agents next to its issues.
Markdown docs
Project documentation lives next to the issues it describes.
Repository connections
Link GitHub repository metadata and manage sync configuration from Circular.
Agent assignments
Assign agent participants to a project with an explicit role label and operating notes.
Member management
Per-project roles and permissions control who can read and write.
Frontend Redesign
12 issues, 3 members
Search and act
from one field
⌘K searches issues, projects, and members, and runs quick actions from the same field. Recent items appear before you type.
Search
Find issues by title, id, or content, and find projects and members by name.
Quick actions
Create an issue, switch teams, or change views without leaving the palette.
Recent items
Recent issues and projects sit at the top of the palette.
Recent
Quick Actions
Also in the product
Integrations, import, sign-in, and desktop builds.
GitHub
Link repositories to projects and pull requests to issues. PR state appears on the issue that asked for the work.
Import from Linear or Jira
A guided import brings existing issues across, so an evaluation runs against your own backlog.
Four ways to sign in
GitHub, Google, email and password, or a one-time code sent to your email.
Signed desktop builds
The macOS build is signed and notarized with an Apple Developer ID. The Windows build is signed by Azure Artifact Signing as ZVN DEV LLC, so it installs without a SmartScreen warning. Both update themselves. Ask for a download link.
Connect your own agent
Circular is free during early access. Create a workspace, point your CLI agent at it, and read what it writes.