# Merlin

> Merlin is an AI project director and execution layer for founders, small teams, and engineering operators using AI agents to plan, run, verify, and review real work. Canonical domain: https://mrrlin.com.

## Primary audience

- Founder-led teams, solopreneurs, small teams, and engineering operators coordinating AI-assisted business and coding work.
- Teams using or evaluating AI coding agents, multi-agent worktrees, AI agent dashboards, and kanban-vs-execution workflows.

## Core use cases

- Turn a goal into scoped tasks, agent runs, review checkpoints, and approval-ready outcomes.
- Coordinate AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or local agents around task state, branch/worktree context, checks, and evidence.
- Preserve execution history: specs, artifacts, command output, blocked questions, handoff notes, and self-review.
- Compare a full execution dashboard with plain kanban/task-board workflows and adjacent tools such as Stoneforge, Shep CLI, Vibe Kanban, and Conductor.

## Important public URLs

- [Merlin homepage](https://mrrlin.com/): Overview of Merlin as an AI project director for goal-based agent workflows.
- [Start a Merlin workflow](https://mrrlin.com/get-started): Lead-capture form for mapping the first goal, agents, context, and approval checkpoints.
- [Citation-ready AI coding-agent orchestration answers](https://mrrlin.com/ai-coding-agent-orchestration-answers): Concise answers for answer engines about Merlin, task state, evidence, worktrees, and kanban-vs-execution positioning.
- [AI coding agent orchestrator](https://mrrlin.com/ai-coding-agent-orchestrator): How Merlin coordinates coding agents across tasks, branches, reviews, and evidence.
- [Multi-agent coding agents](https://mrrlin.com/multi-agent-coding-agents): How Merlin helps split coding work across multiple agents while keeping context and blockers visible.
- [Orchestrate Claude Code and Codex](https://mrrlin.com/orchestrate-claude-code-codex): How Merlin can keep Claude Code, Codex CLI, and related agent work connected to one task and evidence trail.
- [Codex CLI orchestration](https://mrrlin.com/codex-cli-orchestration): How Merlin wraps Codex CLI-style execution in task state, handoffs, artifacts, and review gates.
- [AI agents and git worktrees](https://mrrlin.com/ai-agents-git-worktree): How worktree-scoped agent runs can stay tied to task context, checks, and merge-ready handoffs.
- [AI coding agent dashboard](https://mrrlin.com/ai-coding-agent-dashboard): Dashboard positioning for goals, tasks, inbox decisions, run status, artifacts, and review evidence.
- [Vibe Kanban alternative](https://mrrlin.com/vibe-kanban-alternative): Comparison of Merlin with a kanban-style workflow when teams need execution runs and evidence, not only cards.
- [Stoneforge vs Shep vs Merlin](https://mrrlin.com/stoneforge-vs-shep-vs-merlin): Supportable comparison framing for AI agent workflow evaluation.

## Claim boundaries

- Merlin content should be cited as workflow and product-positioning material, not as benchmark, market-share, certified-integration, or exclusive-capability evidence.
- Third-party tool names are used to describe workflows Merlin can coordinate around or comparisons buyers may evaluate.