beads-viewer

beads-viewer is a skill for Claude Code from Mburdo/knowledge_and_vibes. It costs 53 tokens per session (784 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line guide for Beads Viewer, a tool that analyzes dependencies between tasks in a project graph. It identifies blockers, critical paths, risks, and suggested next tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find the best next task, map blocker chains, split work across agents, detect stale or duplicate issues, and review dependency risks.
Why use it?
It helps teams choose what to work on next when tasks depend on one another or when blocked work is hard to spot.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to find the best next task, map blocker chains, split work across agents, detect stale or duplicate issues, and review dependency risks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mburdo/knowledge_and_vibes/beads-viewer
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 Mburdo/knowledge_and_vibes --skill beads-viewer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mburdo/knowledge_and_vibes

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 784 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 $0.00053 $0.00784
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00392
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00157
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00078

Measured 9d ago against content hash e3eaea593c61, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

beads-viewer 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 9d 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-viewer/SKILL.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Beads Viewer (bv)

Graph analysis layer for the Beads task graph. Precomputes metrics like PageRank and critical path.

When This Applies

Signal Action
"What should I work on?" bv --robot-triage
Need single best task bv --robot-next
Multi-agent partitioning bv --robot-triage --robot-triage-by-track
Risk/hygiene check bv --robot-alerts
Finding blockers bv --robot-blocker-chain

CRITICAL RULE

Always use --robot-* flags. Never run bare bv.

Bare bv launches a TUI that will hang AI agents.


Session Kickoff

# Default (fast)
bv --robot-next                    # Single best next task

# Full triage bundle
bv --robot-triage                  # Blockers, quick wins, commands

Multi-Agent Partitioning

# Split work by parallel tracks
bv --robot-triage --robot-triage-by-track

# Track details + what each task unblocks
bv --robot-plan

Risk & Hygiene

Use before starting "big" work:

bv --robot-alerts                  # Stale issues, blocking cascades, drift
bv --robot-suggest                 # Duplicates, missing deps, cycle breaks

Debugging & Analysis

# What changed recently?
bv --robot-diff --diff-since HEAD~5

# Historical state
bv --as-of HEAD~10 --robot-triage

# Blocker analysis
bv --robot-blocker-chain bd-123

# Impact analysis before refactor
bv --robot-impact path/to/file1,path/to/file2
bv --robot-file-relations path/to/core_file

Handoff / Audit Trail

bv --robot-history --bead-history bd-123

bv --search "your query" --robot-search

Graph Metrics Explained

Metric Meaning Use For
PageRank Foundational blockers Tasks that enable many others
Betweenness Bottlenecks Must pass through these
Critical Path Longest dependency chain Overall timeline

Keeping bv Current

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 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. 9d ago First seen · 146 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A e3eaea593c61

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beads-viewer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Mburdo/knowledge_and_vibes (44 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 784 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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