beans
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“I vastly prefer Beans”
“Try https://github.com/hmans/beans - I find it a refreshingly pragmatic take that works great with my agents use.”
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“I cannot guarantee the project at all, but at least its better than beads.”
“switched to beans and my agents seem to be able to make use of it much better”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“I developed my own task tracker (github.com/kfcafe/beans)”
“There's also Beans, doing MD-based ticketing in your project. It's really good.”
Threads where it came up
- Claude Code and Codex Can Have Real-Time Conversation via Git 1 mention
- Thoughts on Slowing the Fuck Down 1 mention
- Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System 1 mention
- Gas Town's Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale 1 mention
- Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works? 1 mention
- Show HN: I replaced beads with a faster, simpler Markdown-based task tracker 1 mention
Also written as Beans. Data: beans.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 4
“I vastly prefer Beans”
“Try https://github.com/hmans/beans - I find it a refreshingly pragmatic take that works great with my agents use.”
“I cannot guarantee the project at all, but at least its better than beads.”
“switched to beans and my agents seem to be able to make use of it much better”