beads alternatives
Curated alternatives to beads — and why you'd switch.
Trellis
Spec, task and memory layer that lives in your repo: .trellis/ holds conventions, PRDs and journals, auto-injected each session — one workflow across 20 coding-agent platforms.
Why switchSame job — durable spec/task state for coding agents. Trellis bets on markdown living in your repo; beads bets on a Dolt graph DB with merge semantics for multi-agent, multi-machine work.
Full comparison →bemyagent
One markdown bootstrap file that scaffolds a structured workspace for any coding agent — persistent project docs plus a task tree run through a Think→Task→Execute→Verify cycle with human pacing gates.
Why switchbemyagent bootstraps a markdown task tree in one file; beads replaces exactly that with a dependency-aware tracker once parallel agents start stepping on each other.
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