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Beads

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johnlindquist·vlatest·other

Beads allows you to easily create and manage token sets for your game, streamlining organization and enhancing gameplay.

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Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.

  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add johnlindquist/claude --skill beads -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

johnlindquist

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Install target

Live repository

Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.

No human has reviewed this code. The checks below are a static scan of the files at one commit — nobody has run this skill or judged whether it works. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent, so read the source before you install it.

Automated safety checks

scanned

This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No undeclared network calls: passed

    Makes no network calls.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned johnlindquist/claude at eb37d88225.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
eb37d88225
Manifest
skills/beads/SKILL.md
Scanned
1 file, 185 lines
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About this skill

What it does

Beads is a tool for managing tasks and issues, designed to streamline organization and enhance workflow. It provides Git-backed issue tracking with dependency awareness, making it ideal for agent task management. Beads allows you to create, update, close, list, and view details of issues, as well as manage dependencies between them.

When to use it

  • Managing a backlog of tasks in a project.
  • Tracking bugs and feature requests.
  • Organizing work with parent-child relationships (epics and subtasks).
  • Visualizing task dependencies and blockers.
  • Keeping track of progress on individual issues.

Key capabilities

  • Issue Creation: Create new tasks, bug reports, features, epics, chores, etc., with descriptions, priorities, and parent-child relationships.
  • Dependency Management: Define dependencies between issues (blocks, related, parent-child).
  • Status Updates: Update issue status (e.g., in_progress) and add notes to track progress.
  • Issue Listing & Filtering: List open or closed issues, filtered by type, assignee, label, or priority.
  • Git Integration: Syncs with a Git repository for version control of issues.

Example prompts

  • "Show me the issues that are ready to work on."
  • "Create a new task titled 'Implement User Login' with high priority and assign it to John."
  • "List all open bugs assigned to Sarah, sorted by priority."

Tips & gotchas

  • Requires installation of beads via cargo install beads.
  • The skill uses JSON output for most commands; ensure your agent can handle this format.
  • Dependencies are a core feature - use them to clearly define relationships between tasks.