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Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development for Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, Cursor and beyond.
Everything Claude Code has the larger GitHub footprint with 179.5K stars.
Beads is currently growing faster at 0 stars this week.
Beads has the stronger health score at 75/100.
| Signal | Beads | Everything Claude Code |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 23.5K | 179.5K |
| Weekly growth | 0 | 0 |
| Health score | 75 | 75 |
| Contributors | 376 | 179 |
| Commits per week | 215.3 | 116.0 |
| Open issues | 274 | 1 |
| Language | Go | JavaScript |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Last commit | 16h ago | 15h ago |
| Last release | v1.0.4 | v1.10.0 |
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