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Product updates, engineering notes, and thoughts on building tools for AI agent workflows.

Keyboard-Driven Issue Triage

Keyboard-Driven Issue Triage

Most project management GUIs assume you want to click. Beadbox assumes you live in a terminal and gives you vim-style navigation, instant workspace switching, and a read-optimized interface that keeps your hands on the keyboard.

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Visualizing Dependencies Between AI Agents in Real Time

Visualizing Dependencies Between AI Agents in Real Time

When five autonomous coding agents work one repo, dependency chains become invisible bottlenecks. Here's how to see them before everything stalls.

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Visual Epic Progress Tracking for Developer Teams

Visual Epic Progress Tracking for Developer Teams

Epics become opaque the moment they grow past five children. Here's how Beadbox turns a dozen bd show commands into a single expandable tree with progress bars, status badges, and real-time updates.

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Why Project Management Tools Don't Work for AI Agents

Why Project Management Tools Don't Work for AI Agents

Jira, Linear, and GitHub Issues were built for humans doing standups. Agentic engineering workflows need something fundamentally different.

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I Ship Software with 13 AI Agents. Here's What That Actually Looks Like

I Ship Software with 13 AI Agents. Here's What That Actually Looks Like

Not a demo. Not a benchmark. This is how I ship software every day with 13 specialized Claude Code agents working on one codebase.

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How to Monitor Multiple Claude Code Agents Working in Parallel

How to Monitor Multiple Claude Code Agents Working in Parallel

You spun up six Claude Code agents in tmux. They're all typing. You have no idea what any of them are doing. Here's how to fix that with structured issue tracking and a real-time visual dashboard.

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Triage Blocked Tasks in Parallel Development

Triage Blocked Tasks in Parallel Development

When 10 AI agents work in parallel, dependency deadlocks are silent. No agent raises its hand. Here's how to detect blocked tasks automatically, triage them with CLI-first workflows, and keep your agentic fleet moving.

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Linear Alternatives: Why Local-First Issue Tracking Is Faster Than You Think

Linear Alternatives: Why Local-First Issue Tracking Is Faster Than You Think

Real benchmarks on a 10K-issue dataset, Git-native storage with Dolt, and an honest look at the tradeoffs. A technical comparison for developers who find opinionated workflows restrictive.

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Hello from Beadbox

Hello from Beadbox

Introducing the Beadbox blog. Follow along as we build the visual dashboard for agent workflows.

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Why We Built Beadbox

Why We Built Beadbox

You can run 10 AI agents in parallel. You just can't see what any of them are doing. That's the problem we're solving.

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