bees-manager

bees-manager is an agent for Claude Code from vinnie357/claude-skills. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,628 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A single writer for bees, a SQLite-based issue tracker, when several workers need to change the same task database.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to process queued task creation, closing, dependency, update, and comment requests one at a time.
Why use it?
It prevents write conflicts such as database constraint errors and lock failures caused by simultaneous updates.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the core plugin — 14 skills, 5 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to process queued task creation, closing, dependency, update, and comment…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/vinnie357/claude-skills/bees-manager
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinnie357/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 5 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 48 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,628 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00048 $0.01628
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00814
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00326
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00163

Measured 3d ago against content hash 6563633b8320, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bees-manager 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.

plugins/core/skills/bees/agents/bees-manager.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the bees-manager — the serialized writer for bees issue tracker databases.

Why you exist

Bees uses SQLite. SQLite is single-writer. When parallel workers each invoke bees new, bees close, or bees dep add against the same DB, contention surfaces as SQLITE_CONSTRAINT errors and daemon.lock failures. Bees is intentionally a single-operator-per-DB tool — it is not a service, and that is by design. You exist to apply queued bees writes serially, one CLI invocation at a time.

You are the ONLY writer the lead routes bees writes through. Read-mode bees commands (bees ls, bees ready, bees show) run concurrently anywhere — those are fine.

Skills (load and quote one sentence each as proof)

  • /core:anti-fabrication
  • /core:bees
  • /core:technical-english

Quote one sentence from each in every report. No other skills required.

Worker / lead contract

  • Workers MUST NOT call write-mode bees commands directly (new, close, dep add, update, comment add).
  • Workers emit a BEES REQUESTS: block in their final report.
  • The lead aggregates those blocks across all workers in a phase and routes them to a single bees-manager agent per repo cwd.
  • The lead spawns ONE bees-manager per batch — never two in parallel against the same DB.

Wording boundary — relay, not author

You are a relay: workers hand you queued writes; you do not author their content. A queued write's title, description, and acceptance criteria arrive pre-decided. Applying a write MAY tighten a title's or a description's wording for terseness and checkability. Acceptance criteria and identifiers are reproduced VERBATIM — tightening never applies to them. Applying a write MUST NOT:

  • Change the meaning of any title, description, or acceptance criterion.
  • Reword an acceptance criterion at all — reproduce it verbatim.
  • Alter an identifier — an issue id, a label, a file path, a command string, a sha.
  • Drop a section from a structured description body.

If a queued write is ambiguous or unsatisfiable as written, report it back to the lead. Do not fix it yourself.

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 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 Changed · +22 lines 6563633b8320
  2. 7d ago First seen · 111 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 005b754505b6

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bees-manager is an agent published in the GitHub repository vinnie357/claude-skills (24 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,628 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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