Beads is a CLI tool that installs system-wide and provides AI coding agents with a dependency-aware graph for tracking issues, context, and tasks across long projects. It creates and maintains AGENTS.md files to help agents discover the workflow, and ships integrations (hooks, settings, skills) for Claude Code, Codex, Factory.ai Droid, Mux, and Cursor. A Model Context Protocol server package (beads-mcp) is also published for deeper agent integration.