export

Export commands that write Beads issues as JSONL, a text format containing one JSON object per line. The output is sorted by issue ID to keep file comparisons readable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Export issues to the terminal or a file, include all records when needed, and move issue data to another system.
Why use it?
They provide a portable issue snapshot for sharing or migration, while clarifying that this is not a complete database backup.

Command

Part of the beads plugin — 29 commands, 1 agent, 4 hooks shipped together

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/export
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gastownhall/beads

Or install beads, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 commands, 1 agent, 4 hooks.

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 199 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 $0.00199
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00100
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00040
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00020

Measured 3d ago against content hash 5c8e9c9b4df7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

export 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 3d 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.

plugins/beads/skills/beads/commands/export.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

Export all issues to JSON Lines format (one JSON object per line).

Usage

  • To stdout: bd export
  • To file: bd export -o issues.jsonl
  • Include all records: bd export --all -o full.jsonl

Issues are sorted by ID for consistent diffs, making git diffs readable.

When to Use

Dolt is the primary storage backend, so manual export is rarely needed. Use bd export when you need:

  • A JSONL snapshot of issue records
  • Data migration to another system
  • Sharing issues outside the Dolt workflow

bd export is not a full database backup. It does not capture Dolt branches, commit history, working-set state, or non-issue tables. Use bd backup for a restorable Dolt-native database backup.

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. 3d ago First seen · 26 lines · 6 tokens per session scan A 5c8e9c9b4df7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

export is a command published in the GitHub repository gastownhall/beads (26,797 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 6 tokens to every session and 199 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.