What problem does it solve?
This Skill streamlines complex, multi-session, or multi-agent projects by providing robust tools for task coordination, dependency management, and file locking, ensuring efficient collaboration and progress tracking.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Hierarchical Task Management: Organize work into Epics, Tasks, and Subtasks for clear structure.
- Dependency Tracking: Define and manage task dependencies to ensure work is done in the correct order.
- File Locking: Prevent conflicts when multiple agents work on the same codebase by reserving files.
- Multi-Agent Coordination: Facilitate communication and task assignment among different agents.
- Use Case: A team of AI agents is building a new feature. One agent handles the backend API, another the frontend UI, and a third handles testing. Beads ensures the backend is ready before the frontend starts, and both are complete before testing begins, all while preventing agents from overwriting each other's code.
Quick Start
Initialize the beads environment for the 'project' team as a 'fe' role and claim the next available task.