<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Beads on Start AI Tools - Presented by Intent Solutions</title><link>https://startaitools.com/tags/beads/</link><description>Recent content in Beads on Start AI Tools - Presented by Intent Solutions</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-US</language><copyright>Intent Solutions. All rights reserved.</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:22:51 -0500</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://startaitools.com/tags/beads/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Beads Rollout: 22 Repos, One Governance Pattern</title><link>https://startaitools.com/posts/beads-rollout-twenty-two-repos-org-governance/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 10:00:00 -0600</pubDate><guid>https://startaitools.com/posts/beads-rollout-twenty-two-repos-org-governance/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Seventy-six commits. Twenty-two repos. One day. And most of it was the same two commits repeated eleven times.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;December 19th was a governance rollout day. The beads task tracking system had been running in three repos for a week. It was time to deploy it everywhere.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="the-beads-pattern"&gt;The Beads Pattern&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Beads (&lt;code&gt;bd&lt;/code&gt;) is the post-compaction recovery system for AI-assisted development. When Claude Code compacts a long conversation, it loses context about what you were working on. Beads persists task state in git so you can recover after compaction.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>