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…you can set up something like beads to handle task delegation and status updates for your agents. https://github.com/gastownhall/beads

comment by gosugdr · 2026-10-26 · in Tasks as Code: Move Your Tickets into the Repository

…this, but I still think that fossil gives you more utility. More info on beads if you are curious: https://github.com/gastownhall/beads

comment by zhynn · 2026-10-04 · in We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare

How does this compare to Beads, if you don't mind me asking? https://github.com/gastownhall/beads

comment by VulgarExigency · 2026-09-11 · in Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?

Sounds like https://github.com/gastownhall/beads to me. I prefer working solo, single-threaded on components to stay on top of agentic work, so it didn’t end up being a force multiplier for my workflows (and actually kinda got in the way…

comment by oefrha · 2026-09-09 · in An Accidental Blackboard

an actual tool https://github.com/gastownhall/beads

comment by attentive · 2026-09-03 · in Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

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story by xeonax · 2026-07-21 · 0 comments

…cool one to know if you are looking at ways for agents to collaborate on more complex problems. 0 - https://github.com/gastownhall/beads

comment by Game_Ender · 2026-06-04 · in Claude Code and Codex can have real-time conversation via Git

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story by mytechtoday · 2026-04-26 · 0 comments

I was largely inspired by beads ( https://github.com/gastownhall/beads ) but ended up vibe coding something slightly more tailored for the way I like to work. It’s basically a JIRA style task with a few fields (project, title, status,…

comment by d-lo · 2026-04-14 · in Ask HN: Is Codex really on Par with Claude Code?

Malware might be a bit of stretch but could refer to this issue? https://github.com/steveyegge/beads/issues/1857

comment by michaelbarton · 2026-03-25 · in Thoughts on slowing the fuck down

you're describing https://github.com/steveyegge/beads

comment by namtab00 · 2026-03-16 · in Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?

…volume and patterns for O(300K) LoC in a couple of months, mostly from one guy and his agent: https://github.com/steveyegge/beads/graphs/commit-activity https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown/graphs/commit-activity It's like nothing we've…

comment by keeda · 2026-03-06 · in Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence

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story by jbdamask · 2026-03-05 · 0 comments

…context too. Or could make them as a type of issue yourself, it’s a very flexible system. [1] https://github.com/steveyegge/beads

comment by oceanic · 2026-03-02 · in Parallel coding agents with tmux and Markdown specs

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story by jbdamask · 2026-02-28 · 136 comments

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story by juanre · 2026-02-21 · 0 comments

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story by juanre · 2026-02-20 · 0 comments

nice, how is this different than beads? https://github.com/steveyegge/beads

comment by asayyah · 2026-02-10 · in Thrum – Persistent messaging for AI agents

Isn't that basically what things like this are for, open source, free.... https://github.com/steveyegge/beads

comment by taude · 2026-02-10 · in Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents

…into CLI that just makes the flow so much better. The only extra stuff I am doing now is beads. https://github.com/steveyegge/beads I was using speckit and ralph-loop but think anthropic baked in that ralph-loop. Basically a dumb while…

comment by bsgeraci · 2026-02-06 · in Show HN: Artifact Keeper – Open-Source Artifactory/Nexus Alternative in Rust

…better but Claude writes better code. ChatGPT-5.2-Codex follows directions to ensure a task [bead]( https://github.com/steveyegge/beads ) is opened before starting a task and to keep it updated almost to a fault. Claude-Opus-4.5 with the…

comment by MadnessASAP · 2026-02-05 · in Claude Opus 4.6

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story by dsifry · 2026-02-03 · 2 comments

…with spec docs. Then I actually read them. Finally, we create granular tasks called "beads" (see https://github.com/steveyegge/beads ). The beads allows us to create epics/tasks/subtasks and associated dependency structure down to a…

comment by bobjordan · 2026-01-31 · in Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?

I have not tried Gas Town yet, but Steve's beads https://github.com/steveyegge/beads (used by Gas Town) has been a game-changer, on the order of what claude code was when it arrived.

comment by juanre · 2026-01-23 · in Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale

…often with each release. Can't understand how people can rely on it for their day-to-day work. [0] https://github.com/steveyegge/beads

comment by PrayagS · 2026-01-22 · in Stevey's Birthday Blog

…ephemeral .md files that I delete after a certain task is done. The other day I found [beads]( https://github.com/steveyegge/beads ) and thought maybe that could be a good improvement over my current state. But I'm quite hesitant because I…

comment by Chipshuffle · 2026-01-20 · in Scaling long-running autonomous coding

…tasks, add implementation notes and ( crucially ) add sub-tasks and dependencies. I'm using Beads ( https://github.com/steveyegge/beads ) and I think it really improves the outcome; especially for larger projects.

comment by terhechte · 2026-01-18 · in Flux 2 Klein pure C inference

If anyone is curious, Beads is an agent memory project from the same developer: https://github.com/steveyegge/beads

comment by calebkaiser · 2026-01-17 · in We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon

Sounds similar to steve yegge's beads[0] 0: https://github.com/steveyegge/beads

comment by yodon · 2026-01-11 · in Show HN: Persistent Memory for Claude Code (MCP)

…etc. in the hope of supplementing the agent's native context window and task management tools). https://github.com/steveyegge/beads The whole field is still in its infancy. Who knows, maybe in another update or two the problem might just…

comment by HawtAds · 2026-01-09 · in Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far

…always an distant afterthought for anything other than infrastructure code in the hottest of loops! https://github.com/steveyegge/beads/blob/main/BENCHMARKS.md This is one of the defining characteristics of vibe-coded projects: Extensive…

comment by keeda · 2026-01-09 · in AI coding assistants are getting worse?

…6 weeks on Beads. I've not looked at it closely, but the commit history is there for anyone to see: https://github.com/steveyegge/beads/commits/main/

comment by keeda · 2026-01-09 · in AI coding assistants are getting worse?

https://github.com/steveyegge/beads

comment by cygn · 2025-12-30 · in Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind”

Have you tried https://github.com/steveyegge/beads

comment by qudat · 2025-12-29 · in Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything

…are fully customizable without changing how you work. The Subagents use beads for Task management - https://github.com/steveyegge/beads

comment by sathish316 · 2025-12-22 · in Pied-Piper: Create Team of AI Coding Agents for Long-Running/Complex SDLC Tasks

How would you compare and contrast this to Steve Yegge's Beads ( https://github.com/steveyegge/beads/ ), or to ordinary file-based memory following vendors' guidelines ( https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory )?

comment by CharlesW · 2025-12-18 · in Show HN: A local-first memory store for LLM agents (SQLite)

…why is that good? I'd be interested in hearing about how this approach compares with Beads [1]. [1] https://github.com/steveyegge/beads

comment by skybrian · 2025-12-16 · in Letta Code

…the burning pile of unit tests it leaves behind and interrupt. it before it gets too far. [0] https://github.com/steveyegge/beads

comment by theshrike79 · 2025-12-09 · in Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?

…into git, and a sqlite local cache. Auto-sync to replicate changes between the canonical and cache. https://github.com/steveyegge/beads?tab=readme-ov-file#the-m... I finally started digging in to OpenCode for real these past couple weeks.…

comment by jauntywundrkind · 2025-11-28 · in Beads – A memory upgrade for your coding agent

…later, or have my beads-superpowered agent check back for me. Agents report that they enjoy this. https://github.com/steveyegge/beads/issues/376#issuecomment-... https://github.com/steveyegge/beads/commit/c3e4172be7b97effa...…

comment by themgt · 2025-11-28 · in Beads – A memory upgrade for your coding agent

…merging back to main, but the FAQ also mentions that the frequency can be decided individually. [1] https://github.com/steveyegge/beads/blob/main/docs/PROTECTED...

comment by wowamit · 2025-11-28 · in Beads – A memory upgrade for your coding agent

…uses Beads itself as an issue tracker, which means their issues data is available here as JSONL: https://github.com/steveyegge/beads/blob/main/.beads/issues.... Here's that file opened in Datasette Lite which makes it easier to read and…

comment by simonw · 2025-11-28 · in Beads – A memory upgrade for your coding agent

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story by latchkey · 2025-11-28 · 68 comments

…using a bunch of markdown files. That works fine but what I have found really works is using beads: https://github.com/steveyegge/beads I’m letting the agent help me draft the specs anyway and I found that the agent is a lot more focused…

comment by qudat · 2025-11-15 · in Spec-Driven Development: The Waterfall Strikes Back

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story by PaulHoule · 2025-11-05 · 0 comments

…request looked like. IMO you should be regular cleaning out your context, and use something like https://github.com/steveyegge/beads to keep track of your status. In my work's repo: > In the frontend app, change the label from "login" to…

comment by socksy · 2025-11-04 · in Claude Code refused to add rainbows and unicorns to my app

…code review flow built right in. It's not code review, it's issue tracking, but I've been using https://github.com/steveyegge/beads this week, and I think it might be the first "put your issues in your repo" system I actually enjoy. It…

comment by steveklabnik · 2025-10-22 · in I see a future in jj

…I don't like it, just drop it, they're composable. [0]: https://github.com/aperoc/toolkami.git [1]: https://github.com/steveyegge/beads

comment by SafeDusk · 2025-10-16 · in Claude Skills