skills/smithery.ai/issues-beads-init

issues-beads-init

Installation
SKILL.md

Beads initialization

Initialize beads issue tracking in a project with dolt database persistence.

Initialize without auto-staging hooks

bd init --skip-hooks -p <prefix> -q

Replace <prefix> with the project-specific issue prefix (e.g., INFRA, TS, CLAN).

The --skip-hooks flag prevents installation of git hooks that would automatically stage .beads/*.jsonl files on every commit. We keep the default merge driver (no --skip-merge-driver) since it only activates during merge conflicts and doesn't auto-stage.

For completely invisible beads usage without affecting repository collaborators, consider --stealth mode instead (see below).

Alternative: Stealth mode (invisible beads)

For personal use without affecting repository collaborators:

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