label

Label-management commands for adding flexible tags to Beads issues. Labels add cross-cutting context such as technical area, review needs, effort, or documentation status.

In plain words
What is it for?
Add, remove, and inspect labels on issues, or list every label currently used in the project.
Why use it?
They make issues easier to group and filter when their type, priority, or status alone is not enough.

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/label
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 250 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 $0.00250
Opus 5 $0.00002 $0.00125
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00050
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00025

Measured yesterday against content hash 45f0422cce87, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

label 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:

  • label — 100% identical, 2 lines differ
plugins/beads/skills/beads/commands/label.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Manage labels on beads issues. Labels provide flexible cross-cutting metadata beyond structured fields (status, priority, type).

Available Commands

  • add: Add a label to an issue

    • $1: "add"
    • $2: Issue ID
    • $3: Label name
  • remove: Remove a label from an issue

    • $1: "remove"
    • $2: Issue ID
    • $3: Label name
  • list: List labels on a specific issue

    • $1: "list"
    • $2: Issue ID
  • list-all: Show all labels used across all issues

Common Label Use Cases

  • Technical scope: backend, frontend, api, database
  • Quality gates: needs-review, needs-tests, security-review
  • Effort sizing: quick-win, complex, spike
  • Context: technical-debt, documentation, performance

Use bd label add <issue-id> <label> to tag issues with contextual metadata.

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 · 34 lines · 3 tokens per session scan A 45f0422cce87

Subscribe to this mod's changes

label 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 250 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.