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    Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent

    backend
    agents
    claude-code
    coding
    Go
    MIT
    28.7K stars
    1.9K forks
    89 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 10, 2026
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    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    Ranks #15 among Backend repositories ranked this week, and #30 over the last 30 days; #121 of 163 repositories with measured growth this week (top 74%).

    This week's +200 stars is in line with its 30-day pace of about +201 per week.

    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 6 days ago, with 354 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #4 in the weekly ranking the week of Jan 25, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Beads is a distributed, git-backed graph issue tracker designed to provide persistent, structured memory for AI coding agents.
    • Key features include git-based JSONL storage, dependency tracking, zero conflict hash IDs, SQLite caching, and semantic memory compaction.
    • Strengths are multi-agent support, long-horizon task handling, and seamless version control; limitation includes dependency on specific OS environments.
    • Organizations can use Beads to manage complex AI agent workflows with hierarchical task tracking and conflict-free multi-branch collaboration in production.
    • Ideal use cases involve AI-driven coding projects requiring persistent context, task dependency management, and scalable multi-agent coordination.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present

    Watch-outs

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    From the README

    Distributed, git-backed graph issue tracker for AI agents.

    Beads provides a persistent, structured memory for coding agents. It replaces messy markdown plans with a dependency-aware graph, allowing agents to handle long-horizon tasks without losing context.

    Excerpt from the gastownhall/beads README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    +2,378 stars over 90 days across 46 snapshot days; best day +65 on Sep 4.

    Forks

    1.9K+170

    Open issues

    1.8K+1.1K

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