steveyegge-beads

Overview

Steveyegge-beads is a distributed, git-backed graph issue tracker specifically designed for AI coding agents. It provides a persistent, structured memory system that replaces traditional markdown planning with a dependency-aware graph, enabling agents to manage complex, long-horizon tasks while maintaining context.

Key Features

• Git-based database storing issues as versioned, mergeable JSONL files
• Dependency tracking and auto-ready task detection
• Unique hash-based task IDs to prevent merge conflicts
• Background SQLite cache for performance
• Semantic "memory decay" to summarize old closed tasks

Who is this for?

Developers and AI agents working on complex, multi-stage coding projects will benefit from beads' advanced task management capabilities. By providing a structured, version-controlled approach to tracking tasks and dependencies, beads helps teams and AI agents maintain context, prevent conflicts, and efficiently manage long-term project workflows.