beads-schema

beads-schema is a skill for Claude Code from GantisStorm/essentials-claude-code. It costs 24 tokens per session (2,592 once invoked), scanned A, original, Unlicense.

A reference for using Beads, a git-backed issue tracker whose issues are stored as JSONL files and managed with the `bd` command.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, inspect, validate, and connect Beads issues, including issues converted from implementation plans.
Why use it?
It explains the issue types, statuses, priorities, dependencies, and commands needed to track work consistently.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the essentials plugin — 5 skills, 25 commands, 8 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to create, inspect, validate, and connect Beads issues, including issues converted from implementation plans.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gantisstorm/essentials-claude-code/beads-schema
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.

Any agent
npx skills add GantisStorm/essentials-claude-code --skill beads-schema
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GantisStorm/essentials-claude-code

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install essentials, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 25 commands, 8 agents.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,592 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 $0.00024 $0.02592
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.01037
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00518
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00259

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 4f9369e07238, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

beads-schema 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 1mo 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.

essentials/skills/beads-schema/SKILL.md · 339 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 339 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Beads CLI (bd) reference from Beads. Use this when creating, editing, or managing beads issues.

When to Use

Invoke /beads-schema before working with bd commands. Invoke /beads-schema validate to check that bd is initialized and working.

Core Concepts

Beads is a git-backed issue tracker. Issues are stored as JSONL in .beads/ and sync via git. The CLI is bd.

Conversion from Plans

Beads are typically created by /beads-converter from architectural plans (.claude/plans/*-plan.md). The pipeline:

/plan-creator (or /bug-plan-creator, /code-quality-plan-creator)
    ↓ writes
.claude/plans/{slug}-{hash5}-plan.md
    ↓ consumed by
/beads-converter <plan-path>
    ↓ runs
bd create (epic) + bd create (child tasks) + bd dep add
    ↓ stored in
.beads/beads.jsonl
    ↓ executed by
/beads-loop or /beads-swarm or ralph-tui

How plan sections map to bead fields:

Plan Section Bead Field CLI Flag
## Summary Epic title + description bd create "Title" -t epic -d "..."
## Files One bead per file (typically) bd create "Title" --parent <epic>
### Requirements Bead description (exit checklist) -d "## Requirements\n..."
### Reference Implementation Bead description (full code) -d "## Reference Implementation\n..."
### Migration Pattern Bead description (before/after) -d "## Migration Pattern\n..."
## Dependency Graph Bead dependencies bd dep add <child> <parent>
## Exit Criteria Bead description (exit criteria) -d "## Exit Criteria\n..."

Each bead's description must be 100% self-contained — the executor agent receives only the bead description, never the source plan. All code, requirements, and verification commands are copied verbatim from the plan into the bead.

Issue Types (core)

Type Description
task General work item (default)
bug Bug report or defect
feature New feature or enhancement (enhancement is alias)
chore Maintenance or housekeeping
epic Large body of work spanning multiple issues

Read the full file on GitHub · 339 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. 1mo ago First seen · 339 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 4f9369e07238

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beads-schema is a skill published in the GitHub repository GantisStorm/essentials-claude-code (90 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed Unlicense. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 2,592 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.