prime

Context-loading commands for Beads, an issue-tracking system used by coding agents. They print the workflow rules and command reference needed to continue using Beads correctly after losing conversation context.

In plain words
What is it for?
Load the full Beads workflow for an agent, or load only the project’s saved memories for use in a hook.
Why use it?
They reduce mistakes such as creating markdown TODOs instead of recording work in the project’s issue tracker.

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/prime
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gastownhall/beads
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 72 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 $0.00000 $0.00072
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00036
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00014
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00007

Measured yesterday against content hash 4b0559e792c2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prime 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:

  • prime — 86% identical, 3 lines differ
plugins/beads/skills/beads/commands/prime.md · 11 lines

What it actually says

Load AI-optimized workflow context for beads issue tracking.

Outputs essential beads workflow rules and command reference to help agents remember to use bd instead of markdown TODOs after context compaction.

bd prime
bd prime --memories-only

Use --memories-only when a hook should inject durable project memories without the full workflow guide.

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 · 11 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 4b0559e792c2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

prime is a command published in the GitHub repository gastownhall/beads (26,754 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 72 tokens. 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.