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/decision)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/gastownhall/beads/decision"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/gastownhall/beads/decision/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.
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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 | $0.00011 | $0.00666 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00266 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00133 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00001 | $0.00067 |
Grade A, and why
decision scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- decision — 94% identical, 4 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Record and track project decisions as beads issues with structured rationale, alternatives considered, and links to affected work.
Decisions use --type decision. The description field holds the structured decision record.
Record a Decision
When the user wants to record a decision (i.e. the record action of this command):
-
Gather the following (ask if not provided):
- Title: Short summary of what was decided (required)
- Rationale: Why this was chosen (required)
- Alternatives: What else was considered (optional but encouraged)
- Affects: Issue IDs this decision impacts (optional)
- Priority: How important (default P2)
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Create the issue with structured description:
bd create "<title>" --type decision \
--description "$(cat <<'EOF'
## Decision
<one-sentence summary of what was decided>
## Rationale
<why this was chosen>
## Alternatives Considered
- **<alt 1>**: <why rejected>
- **<alt 2>**: <why rejected>
## Affects
- <issue IDs or area descriptions>
EOF
)"
- If
--affectsissue IDs were provided, link them:
bd dep add <decision-id> <affected-id> --type related
- Show the created decision to the user.
List Decisions
bd list --type decision
To see all decisions including closed/superseded:
bd list --type decision --all
Show a Decision
bd show <decision-id>
Include comments for discussion history:
bd comments <decision-id>
Supersede a Decision
When a decision is replaced by a new one:
- Record the new decision (as above)
- Link the new decision to the old one:
bd dep add <new-id> <old-id> --type related - Add a comment on the old decision:
bd comments add <old-id> "Superseded by <new-id>: <brief reason>" - Close the old decision:
bd close <old-id> --reason "Superseded by <new-id>"
Add Context to an Existing Decision
Use comments to append discussion, implementation notes, or revisit rationale:
bd comments add <decision-id> "Implementation note: ..."
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 112 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 78c0de4a0979
decision is a command published in the GitHub repository gastownhall/beads (27,917 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 666 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.
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