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My favorite VCS friendly ticket tracker is https://github.com/wedow/ticket It's human-readable, simple, and easy to work with. Basically there's no magic.

There's an antipattern where everyone wants to invent new interfaces to connect things LLMs when CLI tools are already right there, transparent, and usable by humans as well as LLMs. I think it's partly the origins in web chat applications. Beads kind of does "LLM memory over CLI", or there is https://github.com/wedow/ticket which is a minimal and sane implementation of the same idea.

Have a read through everything that's needed for a full uninstall: https://gist.github.com/banteg/1a539b88b3c8945cd71e4b958f319... Minimalist alternative with no hooks or dependencies for the curious: https://github.com/wedow/ticket

`br` is still massively larger than necessary for the feature set. I didn't mention above but I made https://github.com/wedow/ticket as my beads replacement back at the end of December. I have zero reach compared to Jeff there so I'm considering `ticket` to be a smash hit at this point ;)

Beads was phenomenal back in October when it was released. Unfortunately it has somehow grown like a cancer. Now 275k lines of Go for task tracking? And no human fully knows what it is all doing. Steve Yegge is quite proud to say he's never looked at any of its code. It installs magic hooks and daemons all over your system and refuses to let go. Most user hostile software I've used in a long time. Lot of folks rolling their own tools as replacements now. I shared mine [0] a couple weeks ago and quite a few folks have been happy with the change. Regardless of what you do, I highly recommend to everyone that they get off the Beads bandwagon before it crashes them into a brick wall. [0] https://github.com/wedow/ticket

I've been running long duration coding agents with Claude Code for about 6 months now. Steve Yegge released Beads back in October and I found that giving Claude tools for proper task tracking was a massive unlock. But Beads grew massively in a short time and every release made it slower and more frustrating to use. I started battling it several times a week as its background daemon took to syncing the wrong things at the wrong times. Over the holidays I finally ripped it out and wrote ticket as a replacement. It keeps the core concept I actually cared about (graph-based task dependencies) but drops everything else. ticket a single file bash script built on coreutils managing flat files. You don't need to index everything with SQLite when you have awk. It's just a small plumbing utility that gets out of your way so you can get to work. Wou