reset-beads

reset-beads is a command for Claude Code from GantisStorm/essentials-claude-code. It costs 14 tokens per session (305 once invoked), scanned A, original, Unlicense.

A command for reopening every task inside a Beads epic, which is a group of related tasks, so the work returns to its starting state. It can also reopen tasks that share a label.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to reset an epic or labelled task set before running it again with the Beads loop or swarm commands.
Why use it?
It removes the need to find and reopen completed tasks one by one when you want to run the work again.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the essentials plugin — 5 skills, 25 commands, 8 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to reset an epic or labelled task set before running it again with the Beads loop or swarm commands.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/gantisstorm/essentials-claude-code/reset-beads
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GantisStorm/essentials-claude-code

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install essentials, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 25 commands, 8 agents.

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Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 305 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 $0.00014 $0.00305
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00122
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00030

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 121335a17a3c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reset-beads 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 1mo 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/commands/reset-beads.md · 44 lines

What it actually says

Reset Beads

Reopen all tasks in a beads epic so they can be re-run from the beginning.

Instructions

If epic ID provided:

Get all child tasks (including closed) and reopen them:

bd list --parent <epic-id> --all --json | jq -r '.[].id' | xargs -I {} bd reopen {} --reason "Reset for re-run"

If --label provided:

Get all tasks with that label (including closed) and reopen them:

bd list -l <label> --all --json | jq -r '.[].id' | xargs -I {} bd reopen {} --reason "Reset for re-run"

If no argument:

List recent epics for the user to choose:

bd list --type epic -n 10

Then ask which epic to reset.

After resetting, tell the user they can run: /beads-loop or /beads-swarm (with optional --label <label>)

Note: Loop and swarm are interchangeable—swarm is just faster when tasks can run in parallel. Both enforce exit criteria and sync.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 44 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 121335a17a3c

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reset-beads is a command published in the GitHub repository GantisStorm/essentials-claude-code (90 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed Unlicense. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 305 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.