# Articles & Tutorials

A curated list of articles and tutorials about Beads.

## Steve Yegge (Author of Beads)

- [Introducing Beads: A Coding Agent Memory System](https://steve-yegge.medium.com/introducing-beads-a-coding-agent-memory-system-637d7d92514a) - The original introduction to Beads and how it solves the "50 First Dates" problem for AI agents.

- [The Beads Revolution](https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-beads-revolution-how-i-built-the-todo-system-that-ai-agents-actually-want-to-use-228a5f9be2a9) - How Steve built Beads in 6 days using Claude. Covers epics, child issues, and why AIs love it.

- [Beads Blows Up](https://steve-yegge.medium.com/beads-blows-up-a0a61bb889b4) - Three weeks in: the "land the plane" protocol, session cleanup, and why the core design works.

- [Beads Best Practices](https://steve-yegge.medium.com/beads-best-practices-2db636b9760c) - Multi-agent coordination, when to file issues, and keeping your working set small.

- [Beads for Blobfish](https://steve-yegge.medium.com/beads-for-blobfish-80c7a2977ffa) - Why you should take 3 minutes to try Beads.

- [The Future of Coding Agents](https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-future-of-coding-agents-e9451a84207c) - Reflections on Beads maturity and how agents use it naturally with no training.

- [Welcome to Gas Town](https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04) - Introducing Gas Town, the multi-agent system built on Beads.

## Community Articles

- [An Introduction to Beads](https://ianbull.com/posts/beads) by Ian Bull - A practical introduction to Beads with setup instructions and workflow tips.

- [Beads: Memory for Your Coding Agents](https://paddo.dev/blog/beads-memory-for-coding-agents/) by Paddo - Deep dive into how Beads stores everything in Git and what it's really for.

- [From Beads to Tasks: Anthropic Productizes Agent Memory](https://paddo.dev/blog/from-beads-to-tasks/) by Paddo - How Beads influenced broader agent memory approaches.

- [GasTown and the Two Kinds of Multi-Agent](https://paddo.dev/blog/gastown-two-kinds-of-multi-agent/) by Paddo - Understanding multi-agent patterns with Beads and Gas Town.

- [Beads: A Git-Friendly Issue Tracker for AI Coding Agents](https://betterstack.com/community/guides/ai/beads-issue-tracker-ai-agents/) by Better Stack - Getting started guide with practical examples.

- [Introducing nvim-beads: Manage Beads in Neovim](https://joeblu.com/blog/2026_01_introducing-nvim-beads-manage-beads-in-neovim/) by Joe Blubaugh - Neovim plugin for managing Beads directly in your editor.