delete

Issue-deletion commands that remove work items and clean up their links and text references. They can handle one issue, several issues, or a list from a file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Preview or perform deletions, remove dependency links, replace references with deleted markers, and optionally cascade deletion to dependent issues.
Why use it?
They prevent accidental deletion by previewing changes and checking for dependent issues, while also cleaning references left behind.

Command

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 commands/gastownhall/beads/delete
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gastownhall/beads
Per session 6 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 231 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 $0.00006 $0.00231
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00115
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00046
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00023

Measured yesterday against content hash a6a5e943cccc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

delete 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • delete — 100% identical, 2 lines differ
plugins/beads/skills/beads/commands/delete.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Delete one or more issues and clean up all references.

Safety Features

  • Preview mode: Default shows what would be deleted
  • --force: Required to actually delete
  • --dry-run: Preview collision detection
  • Dependency checks: Fails if issue has dependents (unless --cascade or --force)

Batch Deletion

  • Delete multiple: bd delete bd-1 bd-2 bd-3 --force
  • Delete from file: bd delete --from-file deletions.txt --force

Dependency Handling

  • Default: Fails if issue has dependents not in deletion set
  • --cascade: Recursively delete all dependent issues
  • --force: Delete and orphan dependents

What Gets Deleted

  1. All dependency links (any type, both directions)
  2. Text references updated to "[deleted:ID]" in connected issues
  3. Issue removed from database

This operation cannot be undone. Use with caution!

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. yesterday First seen · 33 lines · 6 tokens per session scan A a6a5e943cccc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

delete is a command published in the GitHub repository gastownhall/beads (26,754 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 6 tokens to every session and 231 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.