epic

Epic-management commands for large pieces of work made up of smaller issues. An epic is a planning item that groups related tasks and tracks whether its children are complete.

In plain words
What is it for?
View an epic’s child issues and completion status, calculate progress, and close epics whose child issues are all done.
Why use it?
They show progress across many subtasks and reduce manual cleanup when an entire piece of work is finished.

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/epic
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gastownhall/beads
Per session 3 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 259 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 $0.00003 $0.00259
Opus 5 $0.00002 $0.00130
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00052
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00026

Measured yesterday against content hash 174f54e3092e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

epic 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.

plugins/beads/skills/beads/commands/epic.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

Manage epics (large features composed of multiple issues).

Available Commands

  • status: Show epic completion status

    • Shows progress for each epic
    • Lists child issues and their states
    • Calculates completion percentage
  • close-eligible: Close epics where all children are complete

    • Automatically closes epics when all child issues are done
    • Useful for bulk epic cleanup

Epic Workflow

  1. Create epic: bd create "Large Feature" -t epic -p 1
  2. Link subtasks: bd dep add bd-20 bd-10 --type parent-child (task bd-20 is child of epic bd-10)
    • Or at creation: bd create "Subtask title" -t task --parent bd-10
    • Children inherit parent labels by default. If the epic uses size/effort labels and children should have their own, add --no-inherit-labels (GH#4562).
  3. Track progress: bd epic status
  4. Auto-close when done: bd epic close-eligible

Epics use parent-child dependencies to track subtasks.

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 · 31 lines · 3 tokens per session scan A 174f54e3092e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

epic is a command published in the GitHub repository gastownhall/beads (26,754 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 3 tokens to every session and 259 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.