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TaskForce vs Shortcut

Shortcut is a developer-friendly tracker with stories, iterations and epics. TaskForce sits on the same kind of board and adds governed decisions, memory and AI orchestration.

Credit where it's due

What Shortcut is great at

You chose Shortcut for good reasons. It does its job well — here's where it shines.

  • A clean, developer-oriented tracker
  • Stories, iterations and epics that fit dev workflows
  • Fast, focused project tracking

What's different

What TaskForce adds

AI that drafts the spec and approach for a human to approve
A memory of why decisions were made, kept across runs
A human sign-off at each checkpoint, recorded
Orchestration of the coding agents your team already uses

Side by side

Where they differ

Shortcut
TaskForce
Stories, iterations, epics
Its focus
Real-time board, issues and cycles
AI-drafted delivery artifacts
Not its focus
Governed spec / approach / breakdown
Decision memory
Not its focus
Reasoning kept as a graph
Human approval as a primitive
Not its focus
A checkpoint sign-off, recorded
Coding-agent orchestration
Not its focus
Agents as assignees

We describe Shortcut as we understand it; if we've got something wrong, tell us and we'll fix it.

Better together

How they fit together

If Shortcut is your tracker, TaskForce is the governed decision and memory layer around the same kind of board.

Choose Shortcut for a developer-friendly tracker. Add TaskForce for the governed AI-delivery layer around it.

See what TaskForce adds to Shortcut

Bring one outcome you were going to spec by hand, and watch the governed run come back.