gastownhall/beads is a command-line graph issue tracker that gives coding agents persistent, structured memory through a dependency-aware task database. It is for developers and AI agents handling long-running work across tasks, branches, and sessions. The catalogue entries provide integrations and workflows for operating Beads with coding agents.
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.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gastownhall/beadsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/commands/gastownhall/beads/compact)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/gastownhall/beads/compact"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/gastownhall/beads/compact/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/gastownhall/beads/compact"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/gastownhall/beads/compact.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00008 | $0.00277 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00111 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00055 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00001 | $0.00028 |
Grade A, and why
compact 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 2mo 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- compact — 92% identical, 4 lines differ
What it actually says
Reduce database size by summarizing closed issues no longer actively referenced.
Compaction Tiers
- Tier 1: Semantic compression (30+ days closed, ~70% size reduction)
- Tier 2: Ultra compression (90+ days closed) — planned, not yet implemented
Usage
- Preview candidates:
bd admin compact --dry-run - Compact all eligible:
bd admin compact --all - Compact specific issue:
bd admin compact --id bd-42 - Force compact:
bd admin compact --id bd-42 --force(bypass age checks) - View statistics:
bd admin compact --stats
Options
- --tier: Choose compaction tier (1 or 2, default: 1)
- --workers: Parallel workers (default: 5)
- --batch-size: Issues per batch (default: 10)
Important
This is permanent graceful decay - original content is discarded. Use bd restore <id> to view full history from git if needed.
Useful for long-running projects to keep database size manageable.
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 32 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A 520441750532
compact is a command published in the GitHub repository gastownhall/beads (28,536 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 277 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.
compact compared with commands from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compactgastownhall/beads | Command | 29k | yesterday | MIT | A | 8 | Claude Code |
| lavra-work-teamsroberto-mello/lavra | Command | 53 | 15d ago | MIT | A | 22 | Claude Code |
| lavra-retroroberto-mello/lavra | Command | 53 | 15d ago | MIT | A | 17 | Claude Code |
| lavra-work-ralphroberto-mello/lavra | Command | 53 | 15d ago | MIT | A | 27 | Claude Code |
| lavra-shiproberto-mello/lavra | Command | 53 | 15d ago | MIT | A | 21 | Claude Code |
| lavra-quickroberto-mello/lavra | Command | 53 | 15d ago | MIT | A | 16 | Claude Code |
| lavra-recallroberto-mello/lavra | Command | 53 | 15d ago | MIT | A | 14 | Claude Code |