bd-issue-tracking

What problem does it solve?

This Skill provides persistent, structured memory for complex, multi-session development projects, ensuring that critical context, dependencies, and progress are never lost due to AI conversation compaction. It eliminates "wheelspin" by helping the AI agent always know what to work on next.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Persistent Project Memory: Survives AI conversation compaction, ensuring long-term context for multi-session work.
• Dependency Graph Management: Automatically tracks blockers and prerequisites, surfacing unblocked work.
• Structured Knowledge Work: Captures design decisions, acceptance criteria, and session notes for complex, exploratory tasks.
• Use Case: For a large software project spanning weeks, use this Skill to break down an epic like "Implement User Authentication" into subtasks, define their dependencies (e.g., "Database Schema" blocks "API Endpoints"), and capture all design decisions and progress notes. Even after a conversation reset, the AI can instantly resume from the last checkpoint.

Quick Start

To get started, first install the bd CLI and initialize a project: npm install -g @beads/cli bd init my-project Then, to see all unblocked tasks ready for work, ask: Run bd ready --json