Develosaur vs Task Master

Task Master keeps a task list in your repo for your AI editor. Develosaur is a live board that several agents and your team share.

Facts checked on 13 September 2026 against the sources at the end of this page.

Who each is for

Task Master

A developer who wants tasks next to the code. Task Master turns a product requirements document into tasks inside the repo and serves them to AI editors over MCP.

Develosaur

Anyone whose plan has to outlive one editor: several agents, often from different vendors, and teammates who need to see and steer the work while it happens.

Side by side

Aspect	Task Master	Develosaur
Where the plan lives	Files in the repo, under .taskmaster/	A hosted live board. The desktop app can also serve your boards from your own machine.
Agents that can use it	An MCP server for AI editors. The README lists Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, Q Developer CLI and Claude Code.	Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Cline, Gemini CLI, VS Code and any MCP client through one address with a browser sign-in, plus REST for anything that makes HTTP calls.
From a document to tasks	Built in: parse-prd turns a requirements document into tasks, with complexity analysis and a research command.	Your agent reads the document and grows the plan as a branch of tasks in one call.
Several agents at once	The README does not describe claims or locks.	Starting a task claims it for one agent. Another agent is refused until the task is finished or released, and the claim expires if its agent goes quiet.
Team visibility	Cloud storage, real-time sync and shared tasks come through Hamster, a hosted product from the same makers.	Everyone you invite sees the board and every change live in the browser.
Works in claude.ai and ChatGPT	Not listed.	Yes, claude.ai and ChatGPT connect as connectors.
License	MIT with Commons Clause: free to use and change, not to sell or offer as a hosted service.	Not open source. A hosted service with a desktop app.
Price	Free. Hamster is Free for 1 creator, Team $40 per creator per month.	Free $0, Pro $12 per month, Team $15 per editor per month (minimum 3 editors). Agents are never billed.

Where Task Master is the better choice

Your tasks sit in the repo as files, versioned with the code, with no hosted service between you and them.
Turning a requirements document into a scored task list is built in.
It is free and open source under MIT with Commons Clause.

Try Develosaur

Paste this into your agent. It builds a temporary board you can keep later:

Read https://mcp.develosaur.com/llms.txt and use it to build me a develosaur board for my project

Questions

Can I move a Task Master plan into Develosaur?

Yes. Ask your agent to read the tasks in .taskmaster/ and grow them into a board. The outline it writes becomes branches and tasks.

Does Develosaur replace Task Master?

Not if one developer and one editor are enough. It earns its place when a second agent, a second vendor or a teammate needs the same plan.

Does Develosaur cost anything?

The Free plan covers one project, and agents are never billed on any plan. Plans: Free $0, Pro $12 per month, Team $15 per editor per month (minimum 3 editors).

Can I try Develosaur without an account?

Yes. Paste this into an agent that can fetch URLs: "Read https://mcp.develosaur.com/llms.txt and use it to build me a develosaur board for my project". It builds a trial board you can keep later.

Sources

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