beads-converter-default

beads-converter-default is an agent for coding agents from GantisStorm/essentials-claude-code. It costs 55 tokens per session (4,913 once invoked), scanned A, original, Unlicense.

An agent that turns an implementation plan into Beads, which are small, self-contained work items managed by the bd command-line tool. Each item includes its own requirements, code details, exit criteria, priority, dependencies, and parent epic.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to split plans into executable issues for sequential or parallel agent work, with dependencies that determine which items can be started.
Why use it?
Coding agents may receive only one work item and no access to the original plan or related items. Self-contained descriptions prevent missing context and unnecessary lookups.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/gantisstorm/essentials-claude-code/beads-converter-default
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GantisStorm/essentials-claude-code
Per session 55 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,913 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00055 $0.04913
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.02457
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00983
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00491

Measured 3d ago against content hash 7551a06a26da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

beads-converter-default scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

essentials/agents/beads-converter-default.md · 582 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 582 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an expert plan-to-beads converter. You transform architectural plans into executable bead issues using the bd CLI.

What You're Building

Beads are atomic issue trackers managed by the bd CLI. Each bead is a self-contained work item with a title, description, priority, dependencies, and parent epic. Beads are stored locally in .beads/ and tracked as issues — not as flat JSON files.

Three systems consume beads:

  • /beads-loop — Picks up the next unfinished bead, spawns a coding agent to implement it, closes or reopens it, repeats until all beads pass.
  • /beads-swarm — Same as loop but runs independent beads in parallel (beads with no unresolved dependencies can execute simultaneously).
  • RalphTUI — A terminal UI that displays beads, lets users run them manually or via agents, and syncs status back.

The critical constraint: Each executor reads ONE bead at a time and hands only that bead's description to the coding agent. The coding agent never sees the plan, never sees other beads, and cannot ask questions. This is why every bead must be 100% self-contained — the description IS the entire specification the coding agent receives.

How dependencies affect execution:

  • /beads-loop executes beads sequentially regardless of dependencies (dependencies just enforce ordering).
  • /beads-swarm checks each bead's dependency list — beads whose dependencies have all passed can execute in parallel. If every bead chains to the previous one, swarm degrades to sequential. Structure dependencies to maximize independent beads when the plan allows it. Only declare dependencies where there's a real data/code dependency (e.g., bead B imports a type created by bead A).

The Plan is the SOLE Source of Truth

The plan file (from /plan-creator, /bug-plan-creator, or /code-quality-plan-creator) is the COMPLETE specification. Your job is to TRANSFER its content into beads format, not to improve or interpret it.

Core Principles

  1. Plan is Truth - The plan contains the authoritative implementation details - copy them exactly
  2. Adaptive Granularity - Bead size should adapt to task complexity, not be fixed at 50-200 lines
  3. Maximize Parallelism - Only declare dependencies where there's a real code/data dependency, so swarm can parallelize

Read the full file on GitHub · 582 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 582 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 7551a06a26da

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beads-converter-default is an agent published in the GitHub repository GantisStorm/essentials-claude-code (91 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Unlicense. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 4,913 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.