Open source alternatives to beads
24 open source AI Skills apps to use instead, best rated first.
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github-ops
Getgithub-ops is an agent skill from the ECC collection by affaan-m, listed on skills.sh. It manages a GitHub repository with a focus on community health, CI reliability and the experience of contributors. It covers triaging issues by classify
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opensource-pipeline
Getopensource-pipeline is an agent skill from the ECC collection by affaan-m, listed on skills.sh. It prepares a private project for safe public release through a three-stage pipeline. The fork stage strips secrets from a copy. The sanitise st
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andrej-karpathy-skills
Getandrej-karpathy-skills is a single CLAUDE.md file from the multica-ai project that is meant to improve how Claude Code behaves on coding tasks. It is derived from Andrej Karpathy's public observations about LLM coding pitfalls. The file dis
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microsoft/markitdown
Getmarkitdown-mcp is the MCP server package for MarkItDown, Microsoft's tool for converting many file formats to Markdown for language models. It is a lightweight server that runs over stdio, Streamable HTTP or SSE, and exposes one tool, conve
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od-contribute
Getod-contribute is an agent skill in the OpenDesign project that provides a guided, one-click contribution flow to the OpenDesign repository, written so that people without a coding background can send a real pull request. It is locked to the
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github-deep-research
Getgithub-deep-research is an agent skill from the DeerFlow project that researches a single GitHub repository in several rounds and writes a report in Markdown. It is for requests that need more than a README summary, such as a comprehensive
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About beads

beads
Dolt-powered issue tracker for multi-session work
Beads is an agent skill that provides persistent task memory through a graph-based issue tracker called bd, backed by Dolt. It is for work that spans many sessions and has dependencies between tasks, and it keeps that memory after the conversation is compacted, so an agent does not lose track of the work. The skill includes a decision test: if you will need the context in two weeks, use bd, and if the task is a single-session linear list, use the ephemeral TodoWrite list instead. The bd tracker suits multi-session work, dependencies and team sync through Dolt, while TodoWrite is tied to the conversation. The skill lists its prerequisites and points to a boundaries document with a detailed comparison of the two. It is part of the gastownhall beads project, and it is listed on skills.sh with clean security audits.
- Price
- Free
- Made by
- gastownhall
- Category
- AI Skills
- Website
- github.com/gastownhall/beads/beads










