Beads
Managing todos and coding projects with Claude Code, Remembering details about important people (like a modern Rolodex)
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“it became a mess of feature creep. Month old versions of beads databases needed massive updates and the system became more and more complex”
NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-04
“I used to use Beads before I made GuardRails (I wanted something slightly simpler, but similar with more 'guard rails')”
MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-20
“I didn't like that Beads was built on top of Git, I don't always work on git friendly projects, and beads kept getting messed up if I switched branches.”
NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-04-27
“does what Beads did for me with some features I really wanted”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-15
“Beads doesn't actually handle the decomposed problem well. I thought it did. But all it is is a task-graph system.”
NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-15
“beads in an old repo, just ... worked. Updates worked, I didn't have super weird errors to track down... I was like "nice!" Beads bumping to 1.0 is great.”
POSITIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-04-14
“beads to appear in random projects on my machine. Because of how it was there the agent attempted to re-install beads after I already removed it because the guy hook errored”
NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-03-25
“Beads has certainly made my agents much more effective, even the older models”
POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-03-06
“I would recommend using https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/beads_rust https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/beads_rust - it's a much simpler implementation of the same concept”
MIXED · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-02-11
“The secret sauce for me is Beads. Once Beads is setup you make the tasks and refine them and by the end each task is a very detailed prompt.”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-26
“using beads just seems so much better. No mcps and remote api calls is pretty great.”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-25
“I also really like Yegge's beads for LLMs keeping state and track of what they're doing”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-20
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