Beads
Beads is a task tracker built specifically for AI coding agents rather than humans. Agents working on large projects across many sessions tend to lose track of what is done, what is blocked, and what depends on what, typically because that context lives in a markdown file that grows too long to keep re-reading. Beads instead stores tasks in a small database with explicit dependency links, so an agent can query "what is ready to work on right now" and get a reliable answer even after a project has grown large. The project has gained rapid community traction and is referenced as infrastructure for large-scale autonomous agent development in industry commentary on the direction of AI-assisted software delivery.
Beads has no confirmed first-person production use yet, so it is placed in Assess. It complements mex: mex tracks what a codebase does, while Beads tracks what work remains to be done on it.
