gastownhall/beads
Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- Stars
- 28k
- Forks
- 1.9k
- Open issues
- 1.1k
- Last push
- today
About beads
beads is a free, open-source AI agent tool by gastownhall, written mainly in Go. Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent. It has 28k GitHub stars and 1.9k forks, and was last updated today. It's released under the MIT license, a standard open-source license. According to the project, it works on macOS.
- License
- MIT
- Language
- Go
- Stars
- 28,094
- Last update
- today
- Runs on Mac
- Yes (as stated by the project)
- GPU
- Not stated
- Paid API key
- Not stated
- Self-hostable
- Not stated
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beads FAQ
Is beads free?
Yes. beads is open source and free to use. It's released under the MIT license, a standard open-source license.
Does beads run on a Mac?
Yes. According to the project, beads works on macOS.
Does beads need a GPU?
The project doesn't state hardware needs. AI models generally run much faster with a GPU.
Is beads still maintained?
Yes. It was last updated today and has 1,064 open issues on GitHub.
What are alternatives to beads?
Similar free, open-source tools include claude-code-best-practice, hermes-agent, ponytail, ECC.