Articles & Tutorials

A curated list of articles and tutorials about Beads.

Steve Yegge (Author of Beads)

• Introducing Beads: A Coding Agent Memory System - The original introduction to Beads and how it solves the "50 First Dates" problem for AI agents.

• The Beads Revolution - How Steve built Beads in 6 days using Claude. Covers epics, child issues, and why AIs love it.

• Beads Blows Up - Three weeks in: the "land the plane" protocol, session cleanup, and why the core design works.

• Beads Best Practices - Multi-agent coordination, when to file issues, and keeping your working set small.

• Beads for Blobfish - Why you should take 3 minutes to try Beads.

• The Future of Coding Agents - Reflections on Beads maturity and how agents use it naturally with no training.

• Welcome to Gas Town - Introducing Gas Town, the multi-agent system built on Beads.

Community Articles

Note: the development pace of Beads is very fast and it's easy for offsite content to become outdated.

• An Introduction to Beads by Ian Bull - A practical introduction to Beads with setup instructions and workflow tips.

• Beads: Memory for Your Coding Agents by Paddo - Deep dive into how Beads stores everything in Git and what it's really for.

• From Beads to Tasks: Anthropic Productizes Agent Memory by Paddo - How Beads influenced broader agent memory approaches.

• GasTown and the Two Kinds of Multi-Agent by Paddo - Understanding multi-agent patterns with Beads and Gas Town.

• Beads: A Git-Friendly Issue Tracker for AI Coding Agents by Better Stack - Getting started guide with practical examples.

• Introducing nvim-beads: Manage Beads in Neovim by Joe Blubaugh - Neovim plugin for managing Beads directly in your editor.