Tweet by Steve_Yegge

October 13, 2025

I just released Beads, a drop-in cognitive upgrade for your coding agent of choice. https://t.co/d94hykIk7y In a nutshell, it is a magical 4-dimensional graph-based git-backed fairy-dusted issue-tracker database, designed to let coding agents track all your work and never get lost again. Beads replaces that disgusting pile of half-eaten markdown files in your plans/ directory. You know you have one. Install the Beads binary, tell your agent in https://t.co/q9aIg3VyQZ to stop using Markdown and run `bd quickstart`, and your agents will spontaneously get better at everything, particularly long-horizon planning and keeping track of newly discovered work. If you are looking for a long-ass but occasionally funny article about how I discovered it while burning a 350k line code base to the ground: https://t.co/DQ0ZZIJhRT Or you can, you know, just start using it. It's MIT-licensed, written in Go, and super lightweight and portable. Let me know how you like it. Enjoy!

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Steve_Yegge
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October 13, 2025
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