Conductor-Beads: Command for Claude Code

.claude/commands/conductor-block.md

conductor-block is a command for Claude Code from NguyenSiTrung/Conductor-Beads. It costs 8 tokens per session (431 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command that marks a task as blocked and records why work cannot continue. It can also update a Beads task, where Beads is a tool for keeping task status and dependencies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to select a task, record the blocking reason, update its status, and optionally link it to the task causing the blockage.
Why use it?
It makes the blocker visible in the plan and preserves the reason, waiting condition, and related task information.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is NguyenSiTrung/Conductor-Beads's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on Conductor-Beads itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything Conductor-Beads configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to NguyenSiTrung/Conductor-Beads. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NguyenSiTrung/Conductor-Beads/main/.claude/commands/conductor-block.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NguyenSiTrung/Conductor-Beads

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 431 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00008 $0.00431
Opus 5 $0.00004 $0.00216
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00043

Measured 10d ago against content hash e84ab32474b9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

conductor-block 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 10d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • block — 88% identical, 4 lines differ
.claude/commands/conductor-block.md · 53 lines

What it actually says

Conductor Block

Mark a task as blocked.

1. Identify Task

  • If argument provided, find that task
  • Otherwise show in-progress tasks for selection

2. Get Reason

Ask for the blocking reason.

3. Update Plan

Change [~] to [!] and append [BLOCKED: reason]

4. Beads Sync

PROTOCOL: Sync block action with Beads.

  1. Check for Beads CLI:

    • Run which bd
    • If NOT found:

      "⚠️ Beads CLI (bd) is not installed. Beads provides persistent task memory across sessions." "A) Continue without Beads sync" "B) Stop - I'll install Beads first"

      • If A: Skip to step 5
      • If B: HALT and wait for user
  2. Sync Block Action (if task has beads_task_id in track metadata):

    • Run:
      bd update <task_id> --status blocked
      bd update <task_id> --notes "BLOCKED: <reason>
      CATEGORY: <External/Technical/Resource>
      WAITING FOR: <what needs to happen to unblock>
      DISCOVERED: <if blocking issue is new, create with discovered-from>"
      
    • If blocker is another task, create dependency: bd dep add <blocked_task> <blocker_task>
    • If any bd command fails:

      "⚠️ Beads command failed: " "A) Continue without Beads sync" "B) Retry the failed command" "C) Stop - I'll fix the issue first"

      • If A: Skip remaining Beads steps
      • If B: Retry the command
      • If C: HALT and wait for user

5. Confirm

Announce task is blocked.

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. 10d ago First seen · 53 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A e84ab32474b9

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conductor-block is a command published in the GitHub repository NguyenSiTrung/Conductor-Beads (24 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 431 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.