beads-ui: what it is, how to install & alternatives

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About beads-ui

Beads UI Local UI for the bd CLI – Beads Collaborate on issues with your coding agent. Features ✨ Zero setup – just run 📺 Live updates – Monitors the beads database for changes 🔎 Issues view – Filter and search issues, edit inline ⛰️ Epics view – Show progress per epic, expand rows, edit inline 🏂 Board view – Blocked / Ready / In progress / Closed columns ⌨️ Keyboard navigation – Navigate and edit without touching the mouse 🔀 Multi-workspace – Switch between projects via dropdown, auto-registers workspaces Setup See for options. Screenshots Issues ![Issues view](https://github.com/mantoni/beads-ui/raw/main/m

How to install beads-ui

npm i beads-ui -g

Taken from the project's README on GitHub. Check the security audit before running it.

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 69/100

No red flags found in any of the 11 categories — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours. Full audit →

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Quick Facts

Stars695
Forks96
LanguageJavaScript
CategoryAgent Tool
LicenseMIT
Quality Score69.2050039991145/100
Open Issues39
Last Updated2026-08-11
Created2025-10-22
Platformsnode
Est. Tokens~13k

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is beads-ui?

beads-ui is Local UI for Beads — Collaborate on issues with your coding agent.. It is categorized as a Agent Tool with 695 GitHub stars.

What programming language is beads-ui written in?

beads-ui is primarily written in JavaScript. It covers topics such as agent, ai-tools, issue-tracker.

How do I install or use beads-ui?

The README on GitHub (github.com/mantoni/beads-ui) gives: npm i beads-ui -g. Usage details are in the same README.

What license does beads-ui use?

beads-ui is released under the MIT license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.

What are the best alternatives to beads-ui?

The top alternatives to beads-ui on Agent Skills Hub include octocode-mcp, chainlink, Image-MetaHub. Each offers a different approach to the same problem space — compare them side-by-side by stars, quality score, and community activity.

How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.

The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.

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