bees

bees is a skill for Claude Code from vinnie357/claude-skills. It costs 36 tokens per session (4,207 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A lightweight local issue tracker that stores project tasks in a SQLite database, a small file-based database, without requiring a server.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating and managing issues, tracking dependencies, finding unblocked tasks, and exporting project context for AI tools.
Why use it?
It keeps issue tracking and task relationships in the project, while making ready work and machine-readable exports easy to retrieve.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the core plugin — 14 skills, 5 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Creating and managing issues, tracking dependencies, finding unblocked tasks, and exporting project context for AI tools.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vinnie357/claude-skills/bees
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 vinnie357/claude-skills --skill bees
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinnie357/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 5 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook.

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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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,207 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Anti-Refusal · line 84
    Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.
    Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.
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 $0.00036 $0.04207
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.02103
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00841
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00421

Measured 9d ago against content hash a7ca00c2125b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bees 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.

plugins/core/skills/bees/SKILL.md · 384 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 384 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bees - Lightweight SQLite-Backed Issue Tracker

This skill activates when working with Bees for issue tracking, dependency management, and AI-augmented workflows.

What is Bees?

Bees is a lightweight, local-first issue tracker designed for AI-augmented development:

  • SQLite storage: WAL-mode SQLite database for fast queries
  • Single binary: Written in Zig, compiles to a small static binary
  • AI-augmented: bees prime dumps a workflow cheatsheet for agents, bees sync exports JSONL, --json flags on read commands
  • Dependency-aware: Query ready issues with bees ready, supports blocks/related/parent-child
  • Local-first: No server required, everything stored in .bees/ directory

Installation

Install via mise: add [tools."github:ctxshift/bees"] with version = "latest" to mise.toml (see templates/mise.toml), then mise install. Full install matrix, platform asset patterns, pre-built binaries, and source build: references/installation.md.

Getting Started

Initialize Bees

bees init

Creates the .bees/ directory with SQLite database and configuration.

Create an Issue

bees create "Implement user authentication"

List Issues

bees list

Show Issue Details

bees show <id>

Close an Issue

bees close <id>

Find Ready Issues

bees ready

Returns issues with no unresolved dependencies.

Commands Reference

Per-flag syntax for the 13 day-to-day subcommands (create, list, show, update, close, ready, dep, label, comment, config, sync, import, prime): references/commands.md. bees 0.4.0 has 19 top-level commands; for the rest (upgrade, edit, rename-prefix, daemon, version, and the ls alias) run bees <cmd> --help — except bees upgrade --help, which executes a real database migration instead of printing help (see Troubleshooting).

No Enum Validation — a Typo Silently Breaks the Queue

Read the full file on GitHub · 384 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 9d ago First seen · 384 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A a7ca00c2125b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bees is a skill published in the GitHub repository vinnie357/claude-skills (25 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 4,207 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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