Beads

소개

Beads serves as a persistent memory upgrade for coding agents, allowing them to track complex projects that span multiple sessions or have intricate dependencies. Unlike ephemeral task lists, Beads uses a graph-based structure to preserve strategic context, technical decisions, and progress even after conversation history is cleared during compaction events. By providing a structured way to document milestones, blockers, and next steps, it ensures that work can be resumed seamlessly after breaks or technical resets, making it indispensable for long-term knowledge work and exploratory projects.

주요 기능

• Automatic database discovery supporting both project-local and global fallback storage
• 5,948 GitHub stars
• Graph-based dependency tracking including blocking, related, and parent-child relationships
• Programmatic integration via JSON output for all core issue tracking operations
• Persistent storage designed to survive conversation compaction events and session boundaries
• Structured progress checkpointing using specific patterns for completed work, blockers, and next steps

사용 사례

• Preserving technical context and strategic decisions across conversation history resets
• Structuring complex development tasks with hierarchical epics and interdependent subtasks
• Managing long-running software projects that span multiple days or multiple context windows