beads-onboard

beads-onboard is a skill for Claude Code from seanmartinsmith/sms-public-mkt. It costs 96 tokens per session (8,906 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive setup guide for Beads, a tool for tracking project tasks and issues. It examines the project, asks questions, and creates rules, labels, references, and starter entries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up or improve Beads conventions, including labels, quality checks, and guidance for linking tasks.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents shared project rules so tasks are easier to search, organize, and maintain.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the sms plugin — 1 skill, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it to set up or improve Beads conventions, including labels, quality checks, and guidance for linking tasks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/seanmartinsmith/sms-public-mkt/beads-onboard
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 seanmartinsmith/sms-public-mkt --skill beads-onboard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/seanmartinsmith/sms-public-mkt

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sms, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

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README.md
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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,906 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 $0.00096 $0.08906
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.04453
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.01781
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00891

Measured 12d ago against content hash bd6b2d59456b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

beads-onboard 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 12d 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/beads-onboard/SKILL.md · 342 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 342 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Beads Onboard

Set up project-specific quality conventions for beads through an interactive interview. Analyze the codebase, ask targeted questions, and generate convention files plus inline integration content (in AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md, per user choice) that make agents produce high-quality, searchable, non-redundant beads — without needing to read a separate conventions file before every action.

Run once per project, or re-run to upgrade conventions with improved guidance. Always offers a review pass on re-run.

Onboard version: v0.2.0

Surface: inline integration block (AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md, user-chosen) with translation matrix and load-bearing rules. Multi-axis labels: area:* + view:* sub-areas + cross-cutting (concern:*, platform:*, workflow:*) + universal mode:* workflow-mode + conditional contrib:*. Dolt-primary PRIME.md preamble. Starter formula. Pre-seeded bd remember entries. --parent mandatory for new children of an epic. labels.md carries explicit multi-area composition patterns. bd lint surfaced as a named quality-gate primitive (auto-lint at create + corpus audit).

Bootstrap: Phase 0 auto-bridges bd init with detection-aware flags. Backwards-compat snapshot when upgrading across major versions. Global PRIME.md carries a version marker with a four-branch upgrade path (regenerate / review / upgrade / upgrade-from-unknown). Platform-aware config paths (Linux / macOS / Windows).

Self-detection (Phase 4): verb-level and flag-level bd CLI surface checks; internal version-string drift check (known-targets + unknown-position sweep); bd init .gitignore leak warning when --setup-exclude is in use.

v0.2.0 (2026-05-21): Three onboard improvements. (1) Phase 0 global PRIME.md detection enumerates Linux/macOS/Windows config-dir paths explicitly (confirmed via bd source's os.UserConfigDir() resolution: ~/.config/beads/ on Linux respecting $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, ~/Library/Application Support/beads/ on macOS, %APPDATA%\beads\ on Windows). (2) New Q8: Integration Target lets users choose where the beads integration block lives — AGENTS.md (tool-agnostic, default for multi-tool setups) or CLAUDE.md directly (for Claude-Code-only users); Phase 0 detection (claude_md_substantial, agents_md_has_content) drives the default, Phase 3 generation branches on the answer, and Phase 4 step 9 migration recommendation becomes contextual (only fires on Option A + substantial CLAUDE.md). (3) New Q9: Lint at Create Time wires bd lint as a per-project quality gate via bd config set validation.on-create warn; Phase 0 step 8 detects the current setting, the Phase 3 post-table step applies it on opt-in, File 5 gains a "Quality gates" callout, File 4 gains a "Lint at create time" section, and Phase 4 step 8 always recommends a one-time bd lint corpus sweep regardless of Q9 answer.

Read the full file on GitHub · 342 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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. 12d ago First seen · 342 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A bd6b2d59456b

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beads-onboard is a skill published in the GitHub repository seanmartinsmith/sms-public-mkt (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 8,906 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 2026-08-31.

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