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May 8, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Beads: Building a Memory Store for AI Coding Assistants

Beads is an open‑source, distributed graph‑based task tracker built on Dolt that adds a memory layer to AI programming assistants, preventing context loss in long‑running tasks through version‑controlled storage, dependency tracking, conflict avoidance, semantic compression, and hierarchical organization.