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Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent

55 mentions on Hacker News by 47 people: 14 stories, 41 comments · first 2025-10-13 · latest 2026-10-26

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  1. …you can set up something like beads to handle task delegation and status updates for your agents. https://github.com/gastownhall/beads
  2. …this, but I still think that fossil gives you more utility. More info on beads if you are curious: https://github.com/gastownhall/beads
  3. 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?
  4. 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
  5. an actual tool https://github.com/gastownhall/beads
    comment by attentive · 2026-09-03 · in Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
  6. …cool one to know if you are looking at ways for agents to collaborate on more complex problems. 0 - https://github.com/gastownhall/beads
  7. 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,…
  8. 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
  9. you're describing https://github.com/steveyegge/beads
  10. …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…
  11. …context too. Or could make them as a type of issue yourself, it’s a very flexible system. [1] https://github.com/steveyegge/beads
  12. nice, how is this different than beads? https://github.com/steveyegge/beads
  13. Isn't that basically what things like this are for, open source, free.... https://github.com/steveyegge/beads
  14. …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…
  15. …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
  16. …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…
  17. 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.
  18. …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
  19. …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
  20. …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
  21. 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
  22. Sounds similar to steve yegge's beads[0] 0: https://github.com/steveyegge/beads
  23. …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…
  24. …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…
  25. …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/
  26. https://github.com/steveyegge/beads
  27. Have you tried https://github.com/steveyegge/beads
  28. …are fully customizable without changing how you work. The Subagents use beads for Task management - https://github.com/steveyegge/beads
  29. 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 )?
  30. …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
  31. …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%?
  32. …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
  33. …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...…
  34. …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...
  35. …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…
  36. …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…
  37. …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…
  38. …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
  39. …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
  40. …a look at Steve Yegge's beads ( https://steve-yegge.medium.com/introducing-beads-a-coding-ag... , https://github.com/steveyegge/beads ) but the writeup is not super detailed. I think your last point is pretty important, that all that we…
  41. Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent https://github.com/steveyegge/beads
    comment by nivertech · 2025-10-13 · in Beads: A coding agent memory system