diff --git a/products/jbrowse-cli/src/commands/add-track.ts b/products/jbrowse-cli/src/commands/add-track.ts
index d32e2b96a4..94d4a95025 100644
--- a/products/jbrowse-cli/src/commands/add-track.ts
+++ b/products/jbrowse-cli/src/commands/add-track.ts
@@ -578,6 +578,13 @@ export default class AddTrack extends JBrowseCommand {
       }
     }
 
+    if (/\.bed$/i.test(fileName)) {
+      return {
+        type: 'BedAdapter',
+        bedLocation: makeLocation(fileName),
+      }
+    }
+
     if (/\.(bb|bigbed)$/i.test(fileName)) {
       return {
         type: 'BigBedAdapter',
diff --git a/products/jbrowse-cli/src/types/common.ts b/products/jbrowse-cli/src/types/common.ts
index 662bfd701f..783106d7a6 100644
--- a/products/jbrowse-cli/src/types/common.ts
+++ b/products/jbrowse-cli/src/types/common.ts
@@ -3,9 +3,6 @@ import { Track, LocalPathLocation, UriLocation } from '../base'
 import path from 'path'
 import fetch from '../fetchWithProxy'
 
-// Method for handing off the parsing of a gff3 file URL.
-// Calls the proper parser depending on if it is gzipped or not.
-// Returns a @gmod/gff stream.
 export async function createRemoteStream(urlIn: string) {
   const response = await fetch(urlIn)
   if (!response.ok) {
@@ -16,8 +13,6 @@ export async function createRemoteStream(urlIn: string) {
   return response
 }
 
-// Checks if the passed in string is a valid URL.
-// Returns a boolean.
 export function isURL(FileName: string) {
   let url
 
@@ -110,14 +105,7 @@ export function supported(type: string) {
     'VcfAdapter',
   ].includes(type)
 }
-/**
- * Generates metadata of index given a filename (trackId or assembly)
- * @param name -  assembly name or trackId
- * @param attributes -  attributes indexed
- * @param include -  feature types included from index
- * @param exclude -  feature types excluded from index
- * @param configs - list of track
- */
+
 export async function generateMeta({
   configs,
   attributes,