ghostex-manage-beads

ghostex-manage-beads is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from maddada/Ghostex. It costs 98 tokens per session (1,726 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for working on Ghostex project-board beads, which are task cards, using the bd command-line tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps pick up, update, comment on, review, close, link, and create beads while checking nearby cards and the installed CLI's commands.
Why use it?
It keeps board work tied to the correct repository and card, with the session associated so others can see which conversation is handling the task.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit It helps pick up, update, comment on, review, close, link, and create beads while checking nearby cards and the installed CLI's commands.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/maddada/ghostex/ghostex-manage-beads
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add maddada/Ghostex --skill ghostex-manage-beads
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/maddada/Ghostex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,726 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00098 $0.01726
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00863
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00345
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00173

Measured 5d ago against content hash 6af2381a0066, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ghostex-manage-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 5d 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.

skills/ghostex-manage-beads/SKILL.md · 179 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 179 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ghostex-manage-beads

Use this skill when a user asks you to work a project board bead ("tackle bead 12345"), to manage board beads, create or update review tasks, move work through bead statuses, add bead comments, or link a session to a card.

Requirements

  • Run bead commands from the repository root so Beads finds the project database and .beads JSONL export.
  • Use the normal bd CLI installed in the environment running the project— macOS, Linux, or the selected WSL distribution.
  • Prefer bd --help and bd <command> --help as the source of truth for the installed Beads version.
  • Inspect nearby beads before creating a new one so title, labels, status, and external-ref style match the project.

The moment you are asked to work a bead, put the session you are running in on its card:

gx board associate <bead-id>

That is the whole command. It takes no session id: Ghostex reads the session you are running in from the environment it exports into every pane, and the card starts showing this conversation as the one working it — the same link the board's own "Start work" button writes.

  • Do this even though nobody asked you to. A card whose work is invisible is the normal failure: only work dispatched from the card links itself, so an agent asked by hand has to say so.
  • It creates nothing. No session, no worker, no duplicate. Running it twice is safe; run it again after a fork or restore so the card follows the session that is really working.
  • Pass --session-id <alias|id|title> to link a different session, and --project-id <id> only when the same bead id exists on more than one board.
  • gx board start-work <bead-id> is a different command with a different job: it dispatches a card to a fresh worker session. Never run it for a bead you are working yourself — that puts a second agent on your card.

Core Workflow

  1. Inspect current work:

    bd list --json
    bd show <id> --json
    bd comments <id> --json
    

Read the full file on GitHub · 179 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 5d ago Changed · +3 lines 6af2381a0066
  2. 10d ago First seen · 176 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A 5b41388eee9e

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ghostex-manage-beads is a skill published in the GitHub repository maddada/Ghostex (765 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 1,726 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.

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