Beads
Beads is an open-source, dependency-aware issue tracker backed by Dolt for AI coding agents. It provides a CLI for managing issues, dependencies, synchronization, multi-agent workflows, and recovery across repositories.
Overview
10 featuresBeads sits in PulseGate's CLI tools & terminal category. It focuses on managing dependencies and issues across AI coding-agent sessions without losing context. It is built as an open-source project for developers using AI coding agents. Beads is open source under the MIT license. It ships for the command line, and it can be self-hosted.
gastownhall builds and maintains Beads, and it first shipped in 2025. The project is developed in the open on GitHub with 26.1k stars and 1.7k commits in the last 90 days. Among its 10 catalogued features are dependency tracking, issue management, and dolt backend. It exposes integrations via an MCP server.
Summary written by a language model from the project’s public pages.
- Dependency tracking
- Issue management
- Dolt backend
- Hash-based IDs
- Graph links
- Multi-agent coordination
- Multi-repo sync
- JSON output
- Git integration
- OpenTelemetry
Built with & integrations
- Next.js
- x-nextjs-prerender header · /_next/static/ in the HTML · __next_f in the HTML
- Vercel
- x-vercel-id header · x-vercel-cache header
- Cloudflare
- cf-ray header · cf-cache-status header
Trust & compliance
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Frequently asked questions about Beads
- What does Beads do?
- Beads focuses on managing dependencies and issues across AI coding-agent sessions without losing context. It is catalogued under CLI tools & terminal on PulseGate.
- Who should use Beads?
- Beads is an open-source project built for developers using AI coding agents.
- Does Beads have a free plan?
- Yes — Beads is open source under the MIT license and free to use.
- What platforms does Beads run on?
- Beads runs on the command line. It can also be self-hosted.
- Is Beads still maintained?
- The GitHub repository shows 1.7k commits in the last 90 days.
- Who makes Beads?
- Beads is developed by gastownhall.
- When did Beads launch?
- Beads first shipped in 2025.
- Is Beads open source?
- Yes — Beads is open source under the MIT license, developed on GitHub.
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