AI-Native Project
Management System
An AI-native, ticket-driven project management system where every team member can plug in their own AI agent to pick up, work and report on tickets — with full human approval, bilingual (English / 简体中文) collaboration, and built-in operations monitoring for every project.
Bitara designed and built Nova PMS, an AI-native project management platform where developers connect their own AI agents — Claude, Cursor or a script — through scoped personal access tokens via REST API, an MCP server or a CLI. Agents pick up tickets, do the work, comment and log time, while humans keep every critical approval. It is bilingual by design, with database backups, git repositories and cloud cost tracked right beside the tickets.
Overview
Bitara runs many software projects in parallel — trading platforms, wallets, chat apps, websites and internal tools — with a mixed Chinese- and English-speaking team whose developers increasingly do their work with AI coding assistants. Nova PMS is the AI-native project management system built to fit that reality: tickets for humans, an API for their agents, and one audit trail for both.
Every user connects their own tools and AI agents through a scoped personal access token and works through tickets via a REST API, an MCP server or a CLI. The system describes itself to those agents, so a connected AI learns the house rules and how to do each job directly from the platform — then does the work while humans hold every critical gate.
Demo build — the interface shown is a demonstration workspace; project names, people and data are illustrative.
Challenge
Conventional project-management tools fell short for an AI-assisted, bilingual engineering team in four specific ways:
- AI agents were outsiders — developers' AIs did real work, but the tool had no safe way for an agent to read assigned tickets, report progress or log time, so status was updated by hand, late, or not at all.
- Language split the team — English tickets were hard going for Chinese-speaking colleagues and vice versa, and machine-translating the original text destroyed it as evidence of what was actually reported.
- Project health lived elsewhere — whether a database was backed up, when code was last pushed and what cloud servers cost each month sat in separate consoles managers never opened.
- Time tracking was an afterthought — meetings, support, admin and design work had no home, so management could not see where the team's hours went.
Key Features
Nova PMS is tool-agnostic and agent-ready: humans get a fast ticketing experience, their agents get a self-describing API, and every action — human or agent — lands in one history.
Ticket Workflow
Ticket-native projects with keys and a staged lifecycle (open → approval → development → testing → release → closed), a Kanban board and stage tabs, full-text search across English and Chinese, and complete history that records whether a human or an agent made each change.
Bring-Your-Own-AI
Every user connects their own tools and agents — Claude, Cursor or a script — through a personal access token with role-based scope presets, via a REST API, an MCP server or a CLI.
Self-Describing API
A machine-readable manifest and a Markdown agent handbook tell any connected AI what it may do, the house rules and how to do each job — so agents learn from the system itself, not from copied instructions.
Human Approval Gates
Agents submit for approval, mark development complete and report test results; approving, closing, rejecting, rolling back and promoting to production stay human-only. Each project sets how much autonomy its agents get.
Bilingual Collaboration
Full UI and content in English and Simplified Chinese — translation follows each reader's own language while originals are never altered (one click shows 查看原文). Code, logs, keys and @mentions pass through untouched.
Worklog & Reporting
Log time per project with or without a ticket across ten work kinds, from web, phone or an AI; daily, weekly and monthly summaries by person, kind and ticket — including who logged nothing — with CSV export.
Project Health, Beside the Tickets
Database Backup Monitoring
Register a backup job and get a ready-made setup guide an agent can follow; Nova PMS alerts when a backup is late, failed, too small or stale, and a Backups page shows every project's latest status in one list.
Git Repository Tracking
Link a repository once; pushes are recorded with date, branch, author and commit via webhook, git hook, CI step or hourly sync — last commit and last push for every project on a single page.
Cloud Billing per Project
Each project shows its actual monthly cloud bill and server inventory, synced automatically, so management sees real project cost without opening the cloud console — and the system itself holds no cloud keys.
Security Testing Console
An embedded operator page runs and reviews automated security engagements and turns any finding into a ticket in one click, with run budgets, safety toggles, per-model configuration and a full audit trail.
Notifications
In-app notification bell and per-user Telegram notifications, plus operations alerts to a team chat for backup failures, stalled queues, deployments and roll-backs.
Roles & Clean Offboarding
Global and per-project roles (Owner, Project Manager, Developer, Designer, Tester, Product); deactivating a user revokes their sessions, tokens and Telegram binding while keeping their history intact. Secrets never reach the browser.
