beads-cli

beads-cli is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Mburdo/knowledge_and_vibes. It costs 45 tokens per session (949 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line task tracker called Beads, used to record work, status, priorities, and dependencies between tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, claim, update, close, inspect, and link development tasks.
Why use it?
It keeps unfinished work visible across sessions and shows which tasks are ready or blocked.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/mburdo/knowledge_and_vibes/beads-cli
Any agent
npx skills add Mburdo/knowledge_and_vibes --skill beads-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mburdo/knowledge_and_vibes

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for beads-cli

README.md
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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 949 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00045 $0.00949
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00475
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00190
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00095

Measured 4d ago against content hash 9a028f2ef78f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

beads-cli 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 4d 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.

.claude/skills/beads-cli/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Beads CLI (bd)

Task tracking across sessions. All issue tracking goes through bd.

When This Applies

Signal Action
Need to create a task bd create
Looking for work bd ready --json
Claiming a task bd update --status in_progress
Finishing a task bd close
Managing dependencies bd dep add/tree

Core Workflow

# Finding work
bd ready --json                    # Unblocked tasks ready for work
bd blocked                         # Tasks waiting on dependencies
bd list                            # All tasks

# Task lifecycle
bd create "Title" -t bug -p 1      # Create with type, priority
bd update bd-42 --status in_progress --assignee YOUR_NAME  # Claim
bd close bd-42 --reason "Completed: summary"               # Complete

# Viewing
bd show bd-42                      # Full task details
bd info                            # Project summary

Dependencies

bd dep add bd-child bd-blocker --type blocks        # Child blocked by blocker
bd dep add bd-a bd-b --type related                 # Related tasks
bd dep add bd-child bd-parent --type parent-child   # Hierarchy
bd dep add bd-new bd-old --type discovered-from     # Found during work
bd dep tree bd-42                                   # Visualize dependencies
bd dep cycles                                       # Find circular deps

Task Types and Priority

Type Use For
bug Defects, errors
feature New functionality
task General work items
epic Parent/container beads
chore Maintenance, cleanup
Priority Meaning
0 Critical (do first)
1 High
2 Normal
3 Low
4 Backlog

Child Beads

Hierarchical IDs: bd-a1b2.1, bd-a1b2.3.1

bd create "Sub-task" --parent bd-123 -p 1

Claiming Protocol (Multi-Agent)

CRITICAL: Always claim parent AND all sub-beads together.

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 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. 4d ago First seen · 150 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 9a028f2ef78f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

beads-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository Mburdo/knowledge_and_vibes (44 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 949 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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