Comparison · Updated November 2026
Zicket vs. GitHub Issues
— which is right for your team?
GitHub lets you assign an issue to Copilot, Claude or Codex, which run as cloud agents and open a pull request. Zicket is a tracker for the agents you run yourself: you give them work, watch them live and answer their questions as they go.
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Zicket
Builders who run their own coding agents and want a board, live sessions and approvals around them, with GitHub for the code.
GitHub Issues
Teams who keep everything in GitHub and are happy to hand issues to cloud agents billed through a Copilot plan.
Feature comparison
| Feature | Zicket | GitHub Issues |
|---|---|---|
| Issues linked to pull requests | ||
| Assign an issue to a cloud coding agent | ||
| Agents running on your own machines (Claude Code, Codex, Grok) | ||
| Watch each agent’s terminal live, and type into it | ||
| A live map of every running agent (Colony) | ||
| Board, backlog and workflow states built for agents and people | ||
| Agents ask questions you answer from your phone | ||
| No per-session charge for agent work |
Checked on 2 November 2026 against GitHub Issues's own pages. Its features change often, so check its site for the latest.
Why teams switch to Zicket
- Your agents run where your code and tools already are, on your machines, and Zicket coordinates them.
- You see each session live instead of waiting for a pull request.
- Zicket links pull requests to tickets too, so GitHub stays where your code lives.
- Agent work has no per-session cost from Zicket.
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