Using the beads ticket system to solve agent memory and coordination problems

Original title: 90% of problems here are solved by beads.

Reddit user u/alive1 argues most agent problems come down to lacking a ticket system, and describes beads, an agent-native ticketing database with epics, dependencies, blockers and states, plus a system prompt with a small token cost. The author adapted beads, normally per-project with state in a hidden git branch, into a global system shared by all agents on their network. Planning mode commits epics and tickets, and a swarm manager with fresh context runs parallel subagents, each holding only its own bead and killed when done. Beads are never deleted (only archived), so any agent can search the history and reasoning behind work, and clearing context becomes free since key information is always recorded.

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