template

A command for managing issue templates: pre-filled structures for common bugs, features, tasks, epics, and chores. Templates can supply defaults such as type, priority, labels, and acceptance criteria.

In plain words
What is it for?
List available templates, inspect their structure, and create custom templates stored in the project’s .beads/templates directory.
Why use it?
It reduces repeated typing and keeps newly created issues consistent across a project.

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/template
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 1,663 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 $0.01663
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00831
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00333
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00166

Measured yesterday against content hash dd8865a9556a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

template 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:

  • template — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
plugins/beads/skills/beads/commands/template.md · 338 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 338 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

bd template

Manage issue templates for streamlined issue creation.

Synopsis

Templates provide pre-filled structures for common issue types, making it faster to create well-formed issues with consistent formatting.

bd template list
bd template show <template-name>
bd template create <template-name>

Description

Templates can be:

  • Built-in: Provided by bd (epic, bug, feature)
  • Custom: Stored in .beads/templates/ directory

Each template defines default values for:

  • Description structure with placeholders
  • Issue type (bug, feature, task, epic, chore)
  • Priority (0-4)
  • Labels
  • Design notes structure
  • Acceptance criteria structure

Commands

list

List all available templates (built-in and custom).

bd template list
bd template list --json

Examples:

$ bd template list
Built-in Templates:
  epic
    Type: epic, Priority: P1
    Labels: epic
  bug
    Type: bug, Priority: P1
    Labels: bug
  feature
    Type: feature, Priority: P2
    Labels: feature

show

Show detailed structure of a specific template.

bd template show <template-name>
bd template show <template-name> --json

Examples:

$ bd template show bug
Template: bug
Type: bug
Priority: P1
Labels: bug

Description:
## Summary

[Brief description of the bug]

## Steps to Reproduce
...

create

Create a custom template in .beads/templates/ directory.

bd template create <template-name>

This creates a YAML file with default structure that you can edit to customize.

Examples:

$ bd template create performance
✓ Created template: .beads/templates/performance.yaml
Edit the file to customize your template.

$ cat .beads/templates/performance.yaml
name: performance
description: |-
    [Describe the issue]
    
    ## Additional Context
    
    [Add relevant details]
type: task
priority: 2
labels: []
design: '[Design notes]'
acceptance_criteria: |-
    - [ ] Acceptance criterion 1
    - [ ] Acceptance criterion 2

# Edit the template to customize it
$ vim .beads/templates/performance.yaml

Read the full file on GitHub · 338 lines

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 · 338 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A dd8865a9556a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

template 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 1,663 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.