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Beads (bd) is a distributed graph issue tracker for AI agents, developed by gastownhall. It leverages Dolt to provide persistent, structured memory, replacing conventional markdown plans with a dependency-aware graph. This mechanism helps agents manage long-horizon tasks without losing context. As a command-line interface (CLI) tool, Beads supports multi-agent and multi-branch workflows, employing hash-based IDs to prevent merge conflicts.
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