beads/docs/COMMUNITY_TOOLS.md

Beads Community Tools

A curated list of community-built UIs, extensions, and integrations for Beads. Ranked by activity and maturity.

Terminal UIs

• beads_viewer - Elegant, keyboard-driven terminal interface with tree navigation and vim-style commands. Built by @Dicklesworthstone. (Go)

• bdui - Real-time terminal UI with tree view, dependency graph, and vim-style navigation. Built by @assimelha. (Node.js)

• perles - Terminal UI search, dependency and kanban viewer powered by a custom BQL (Beads Query Language). Built by @zjrosen. (Go)

• beads.el - Emacs UI to browse, edit, and manage beads. Built by @ctietze. (Elisp)

• lazybeads - Lightweight terminal UI built with Bubble Tea for browsing and managing beads issues. Built by @codegangsta. (Go)

• bsv - Simple two-panel terminal (TUI) viewer with tree navigation organized by epic/task/sub-task, markdown rendering, and mouse support. Built by @bglenden. (Rust)

• abacus - A powerful terminal UI for visualizing and navigating Beads issue tracking databases.

Web UIs

• beads-ui - Local web interface with live updates and kanban board. Run with npx beads-ui start. Built by @mantoni. (Node.js)

• Monitor WebUI - Real-time Issue Tracking Dashboard. Standalone web-based monitoring interface with clean, responsive design. Built by Beads core team. (Go)

• beads-viz-prototype - Web-based visualization generating interactive HTML from bd export. Built by @mattbeane. (Python)

• beads-dashboard - A local, lean metrics dashboard for your beads data. Provides insights insights into lead time, throughput and other continuous improvement metrics. Includes a filterable table view of "all issues". Built by @rhydlewis. (Node.js/React)

• beads-kanban-ui - Visual Kanban board with git branch status tracking, epic/subtask management, design doc viewer, and activity timeline. Install via npm: npm install -g beads-kanban-ui. Built by @AvivK5498. (TypeScript/Rust)

Editor Extensions

• vscode-beads - VS Code extension with issues panel and daemon management. Built by @jdillon. (TypeScript)

• Agent Native Abstraction Layer for Beads (ANAL Beads) - VS Code Kanban board. Maintained by @sebcook-ctrl. (Node.js)

• Beads-Kanban - VS Code Kanban board for Beads issue tracking. Maintained by @davidcforbes. (TypeScript)

• opencode-beads - OpenCode plugin with automatic context injection, /bd-* slash commands, and autonomous task agent. Built by @joshuadavidthomas. (Node.js)

• nvim-beads - Neovim plugin for managing beads. Built by @joeblubaugh. (Lua)

Native Apps

• Beadster - macOS app for browsing and managing issues from .beads/ directories in git repositories. Built by @podviaznikov. (Swift)

• Parade - Electron app for workflow orchestration with visual Kanban board, discovery wizard, and task visualization. Run with npx parade-init. Built by @JeremyKalmus. (Electron/React)

Data Source Middleware

• jira-beads-sync - CLI tool & Claude Code plugin to sync tasks from Jira into beads and publish beads task states back to Jira. Built by @conallob. (Go)

Claude Code Orchestration

• beads-orchestration - Multi-agent orchestration skill for Claude Code. Orchestrator investigates issues, manages beads tasks automatically, and delegates to tech-specific supervisors on isolated branches. Includes hooks for workflow enforcement, epic/subtask support, and optional external provider delegation (Codex/Gemini). Install via npm: npm install -g @avivkaplan/beads-orchestration. Built by @AvivK5498. (Node.js/Python)

Historical / Stale

• beady - Early prototype effort, now stale. Built by @maphew. (Go)

Discussion

See GitHub Discussions #276 for ongoing UI development conversations, design decisions, and community contributions.

Contributing

Found or built a tool? Open a PR to add it to this list or comment on discussion #276.