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Beads

  • Updated August 4, 2026
  • trillium/brain

beads is a Claude Code skill in the Automation & Workflows category. AI-supervised issue tracker for coding workflows

Key points

  • beads
  • Automation & Workflows
  • AI-coding skill

Beads by the numbers

  • Data as of Aug 5, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
/plugin marketplace add trillium/brain
/plugin install beads@beads-marketplace

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Last updatedAugust 4, 2026
Repositorytrillium/brain

What it does

AI-supervised issue tracker for coding workflows

README.md

Beads Plugin

This is the shared Claude/Codex plugin package for Beads. Claude and Codex use separate manifest files, but they share the same skill tree.

Layout

  • .codex-plugin/plugin.json describes the Codex plugin.
  • .claude-plugin/plugin.json describes the Claude plugin.
  • skills/beads/ contains the plugin-owned Beads skill.
  • .codex-plugin/hooks/hooks.json contains Codex-only lifecycle hooks for startup and compaction-aware context refresh.
  • The Claude marketplace entry lives at .claude-plugin/marketplace.json.

Codex Hooks

The Codex plugin exposes native hooks through .codex-plugin/plugin.json, which points at .codex-plugin/hooks/hooks.json. With Codex 0.129.0+, /hooks shows these lifecycle handlers:

  • SessionStart runs bd codex-hook SessionStart for startup|resume|clear and injects full bd prime output.
  • PreCompact runs bd codex-hook PreCompact for manual|auto and warns if bd prime --memories-only cannot run.
  • PostCompact runs bd codex-hook PostCompact for manual|auto and records a one-shot refresh marker in the user cache/temp directory.
  • UserPromptSubmit runs bd codex-hook UserPromptSubmit and, when a refresh marker exists, injects full bd prime output once before clearing it.

If the plugin is not installed, bd setup codex writes an equivalent .codex/hooks.json fallback and enables [features].hooks = true.

Local Development

Claude Code uses .claude-plugin/marketplace.json, which points at this shared package root.

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