Beads

Beads is an open-source project by Steve Yegge that provides a plugin framework for building AI-powered coding tools and IDE integrations. It is hosted on GitHub and designed to help developers create and extend AI coding assistant capabilities through a structured plugin architecture. The project focuses on enabling extensible, composable tooling for AI-assisted development workflows.

• Plugin Architecture: Beads provides a structured plugin system that allows developers to build and compose AI coding assistant features in a modular way.
• Open Source: The project is freely available on GitHub, allowing anyone to inspect, fork, contribute to, or extend the codebase.
• IDE Integration Focus: The framework is designed with IDE plugin development in mind, as documented in the PLUGIN.md guide in the repository.
• Getting Started: Clone the repository from GitHub and follow the documentation in the docs/PLUGIN.md file to begin building plugins or integrating with your development environment.
• Developer-Centric: Beads targets software engineers who want to build or customize AI coding assistant tooling rather than end users looking for a ready-made product.