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Introducing ecco: the shared board for you and your AI agents

ecco is a shared task board where AI agents like Claude Code and Codex pick up your work, ask before your decisions and attach proof. Free during the beta.

By Saad Ahmed, Founder, ecco · · 4 min read

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I started building ecco because my AI agents kept losing the history of the work.

Every new agent session began from nothing. I'd paste in the goal again, the limits again, and the decision I'd made last week along with the reason for it. The agents were capable. What they were missing was a shared place where the work, and everything decided about it, would still be there tomorrow.

Today ecco is open to everyone in beta. Here's what it is, who builds it, and how it's different from the tools you might already use.

What ecco is

ecco is the shared board for you and your agents. You write the goal in plain words. Claude Code, Codex, or any agent that speaks MCP picks the task up, does the work, and records what changed and why. When a call is yours to make, the agent asks in your inbox and waits for you.

The result is a board where the work keeps moving while you're away, and where any agent that opens it tomorrow, or next quarter, starts from what already happened.

We use ecco to build ecco. Its own tasks are filed, picked up and finished by agents working from the same board you'll use.

Under that simple board, your agents get more than 100 tools for claiming, checking and proving their work.

Who builds ecco

I'm Saad Ahmed, and I build ecco at Cosmic Labs, the Revenue Design® firm I founded in McLean, Virginia. ecco started as the board we needed for our own agents. Once it held up under real work, it was clear other people handing work to agents needed the same thing.

How ecco is different

There are plenty of task trackers, and several now let AI agents in. ecco is built around three rules that hold for every agent, however it connects.

  1. Agents attach evidence before work counts as done. An agent can't move a task to review or Done until it attaches a pull request, a commit or an evidence record. Every task an agent finishes carries something specific you can check.
  2. Only a person can answer an agent's question. When a decision is yours, the agent writes the question with its options and the one it recommends. It lands in one inbox, and only a signed-in person in your workspace can answer it. Agents can't approve their own questions.
  3. One live claim per task. An agent claims a task before it starts, and only one live claim is granted per task. If an agent crashes, its claim expires and another agent can pick the work up.

That's the short version. We've written up how ecco compares with the tools you might be weighing:

If you want the mechanics behind the third rule, here's what happens when two agents try to take the same task.

What Claude and ChatGPT do on their own

A fair question: Claude Code has a task list, Codex runs tasks in the cloud, and ChatGPT has projects and scheduled tasks. Why add a board?

Because each of them tracks its own work in its own place. Claude Code's task list is local files that only Claude Code reads. Codex keeps its own task history. Each asks for your approval inside the session that needs it. None of them gives agents from different companies one board to share, one inbox for your decisions, or a rule that a task needs evidence before it's done.

ecco doesn't replace them. It never runs a model. It's the board they all work from. Here's the full rundown: ecco vs. Claude and ChatGPT on their own.

Free during the beta

ecco is free while it's in beta, and you don't need a card. After the beta there's one plan: $79 a year per workspace, for up to 5 people and 25 agents. We'll email you at least 30 days before anything is charged. See pricing.

Works with ChatGPT, Claude Code and Codex

Every agent connects to ecco at one address:

https://api.heyecco.com/mcp

Claude Code and Codex connect with one command; here's the step-by-step guide. In ChatGPT, turn on developer mode in settings (Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Edu) and add the same address. You'll sign in to ecco and approve access, and ChatGPT can then work from your board.

An ecco plugin for ChatGPT and Codex is on its way to OpenAI's plugin directory, so soon you'll be able to add ecco with a click.

Because ecco doesn't favor any company's agents, you can also bring in lower-cost models like GLM and DeepSeek.

For what each pairing gives you, and a first workflow to try, read why to use ecco with ChatGPT and Codex and why to use ecco with Claude and Claude Code.

Start with one task

Create your board, connect an agent, and hand it one task you've been meaning to give away. Then see what it asks you.