gastownhall/beads is a command-line graph issue tracker that gives coding agents persistent, structured memory through a dependency-aware task database. It is for developers and AI agents handling long-running work across tasks, branches, and sessions. The catalogue entries provide integrations and workflows for operating Beads with coding agents.
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.
npx agentmods add commands/gastownhall/beads/searchgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gastownhall/beadsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/commands/gastownhall/beads/search)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/gastownhall/beads/search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/gastownhall/beads/search.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00005 | $0.00786 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00003 | $0.00393 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00001 | $0.00157 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00001 | $0.00079 |
Grade A, and why
search 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 6d 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- search — 100% identical, 2 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Search issues across title, description, and ID with a simple text query.
Note: The search command is optimized for quick text searches and uses less context than list when accessed via MCP. For advanced filtering options, use bd list.
Basic Usage
bd search "authentication bug"
bd search login --status open
bd search database --label backend
bd search "bd-5q" # Search by partial issue ID
How It Works
The search command finds issues where your query appears in any of:
- Issue title
- Issue description
- Issue ID (supports partial matching)
Unlike bd list, which requires you to specify which field to search, bd search automatically searches all text fields, making it faster and more intuitive for exploratory searches.
Filters
- --status, -s: Filter by status (open, in_progress, blocked, closed)
- --assignee, -a: Filter by assignee
- --type, -t: Filter by type (bug, feature, task, epic, chore, decision)
- --label, -l: Filter by labels (must have ALL specified labels)
- --label-any: Filter by labels (must have AT LEAST ONE)
- --limit, -n: Limit number of results (default: 50)
- --sort: Sort by field: priority, created, updated, closed, status, id, title, type, assignee
- --reverse, -r: Reverse sort order
- --long: Show detailed multi-line output for each issue
- --json: Output results in JSON format
Examples
Basic Search
# Find all issues mentioning "auth" or "authentication"
bd search auth
# Search for performance issues
bd search performance --status open
# Find database-related bugs
bd search database --type bug
Filtered Search
# Find open backend issues about login
bd search login --status open --label backend
# Search Alice's tasks for "refactor"
bd search refactor --assignee alice --type task
# Find recent bugs (limited to 10 results)
bd search bug --status open --limit 10
Sorted Output
# Search bugs sorted by priority (P0 first)
bd search bug --sort priority
# Search features sorted by most recently updated
bd search feature --sort updated
# Search issues sorted by priority, lowest first
bd search refactor --sort priority --reverse
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 104 lines · 5 tokens per session scan A 2295d2cf34f0
search is a command published in the GitHub repository gastownhall/beads (26,903 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 5 tokens to every session and 786 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.
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lavra-retro
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lavra-work-ralph
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lavra-ship
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test-browser
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