ready

A command that lists work items with no blocking dependencies. A dependency is a relationship where one task must be completed before another can start.

In plain words
What is it for?
Show ready issue IDs, titles, priorities, and types, then choose one to claim for work.
Why use it?
It helps you find work that can begin now instead of reviewing blocked tasks one by one.

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/ready
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gastownhall/beads
Per session 8 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 132 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 $0.00008 $0.00132
Opus 5 $0.00004 $0.00066
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00026
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00013

Measured yesterday against content hash 48a42cab07b8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ready 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:

  • ready — 89% identical, 2 lines differ
plugins/beads/skills/beads/commands/ready.md · 16 lines

What it actually says

Use the beads MCP server to find tasks that are ready to work on (no blocking dependencies).

Call the ready tool to get a list of unblocked issues. Then present them to the user in a clear format showing:

  • Issue ID
  • Title
  • Priority
  • Issue type

If there are ready tasks, ask the user which one they'd like to work on. If they choose one, use the claim tool to start work atomically.

If there are no ready tasks, suggest checking blocked issues or creating a new issue with the create tool.

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 · 16 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A 48a42cab07b8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ready is a command published in the GitHub repository gastownhall/beads (26,754 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 132 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.