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Steve Yegge 87ed7c8793 Polish for open-source release
Major improvements to code quality, documentation, and CI:

Code Quality:
- Add golangci-lint configuration with 13 linters
- Fix unchecked error returns in export/import/init
- Refactor duplicate scanIssues code
- Add package comments for all packages
- Add const block comments for exported constants
- Configure errcheck to allow idiomatic defer patterns

Documentation:
- Add comprehensive CONTRIBUTING.md with setup, testing, and workflow
- Fix QUICKSTART.md binary name references (beads → bd)
- Correct default database path documentation

CI/CD:
- Add GitHub Actions workflow for tests and linting
- Enable race detection and coverage reporting
- Automated quality checks on all PRs

All tests passing. Lint issues reduced from 117 to 103 (remaining are
idiomatic patterns and test code). Ready for open-source release.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Beads Quickstart

Get up and running with Beads in 2 minutes.

Installation

cd ~/src/beads
go build -o bd ./cmd/bd
./bd --help

Your First Issues

# Create a few issues
./bd create "Set up database" -p 1 -t task
./bd create "Create API" -p 2 -t feature
./bd create "Add authentication" -p 2 -t feature

# List them
./bd list

Add Dependencies

# API depends on database
./bd dep add bd-2 bd-1

# Auth depends on API
./bd dep add bd-3 bd-2

# View the tree
./bd dep tree bd-3

Output:

🌲 Dependency tree for bd-3:

→ bd-3: Add authentication [P2] (open)
  → bd-2: Create API [P2] (open)
    → bd-1: Set up database [P1] (open)

Find Ready Work

./bd ready

Output:

📋 Ready work (1 issues with no blockers):

1. [P1] bd-1: Set up database

Only bd-1 is ready because bd-2 and bd-3 are blocked!

Work the Queue

# Start working on bd-1
./bd update bd-1 --status in_progress

# Complete it
./bd close bd-1 --reason "Database setup complete"

# Check ready work again
./bd ready

Now bd-2 is ready! 🎉

Track Progress

# See blocked issues
./bd blocked

# View statistics
./bd stats

Database Location

By default: ~/.beads/default.db

You can use project-specific databases:

./bd --db ./my-project.db create "Task"

Next Steps

  • Add labels: ./bd create "Task" -l "backend,urgent"
  • Filter ready work: ./bd ready --priority 1
  • Search issues: ./bd list --status open
  • Detect cycles: ./bd dep cycles

See README.md for full documentation.