Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
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.
Latest release v1.3.1 · 30 Sept 2026
6 files for Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex and OpenCode: PreToolUse, beads, beads-docs, beads copilot-instructions.md and 2 more — 3,496 tokens loaded in every session.
.github/copilot-instructions.md A 185 tok AGENTS.md C 3,308 tok CLAUDE.md A 3 tok .claude/settings.json A — .claude/settings.json A — .claude/skills/beads-docs/SKILL.md A 170 tok These files are gastownhall/beads's own configuration — they tell Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex and OpenCode how to work on this repository, so they are not mods to install elsewhere. Copy one as a starting point and replace the parts that are about this project.