beads

A project rule saying that Beads, an issue-tracking tool used from the command line, manages this project’s tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Recording, finding, and managing project issues through Beads.
Why use it?
It tells agents where tasks and issues are recorded so work is tracked consistently.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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 rules/ufna/vacuus/beads
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ufna/VaCuus

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 596 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 596 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00596 $0.00596
Opus 5 $0.00298 $0.00298
Sonnet 5 $0.00119 $0.00119
Haiku 4.5 $0.00060 $0.00060

Measured 3d ago against content hash 6b6ad52e515d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

beads 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 3d 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.

.cursor/rules/beads.mdc · 68 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 3d ago First seen · 68 lines · 596 tokens per session scan A 6b6ad52e515d

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beads is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository ufna/VaCuus (20 stars, last pushed 11d ago), with no licence file. It adds 596 tokens to every session, about $0.0030 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.