beads

Why we included this project

Long coding tasks are where agents fall apart: they plan a refactor, then lose the thread halfway through and start guessing. Beads is a CLI issue tracker that gives them a durable memory instead. It stores tasks, dependencies, and project notes in a graph backed by Dolt, a version-controlled SQL database, so the state survives across sessions and machines rather than living in markdown files that go stale. An agent can claim a piece of ready work, flag what it is blocked on, and pull the relevant context back with one command, which keeps long-horizon work and multi-agent collaboration from turning into chaos. The tool also ships setup hooks for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other agents, and it writes AGENTS.md guidance so the workflow is discoverable. Because the store is a Dolt database, the whole task history can be branched and merged like a Git repository, and synced between machines. That makes it a practical fit for teams running several agents on the same project, or for anyone who wants their agent to pick a long task back up where it left off.