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Beads Documentation

by gastownhall

Beads Documentation is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by gastownhall in beads.

26.3K stars1.8K forkson gastownhall/beadsAdded 2026/08/14Repository updated 2026/08/13
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Install Beads Documentation
Copy Beads Documentation into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.
terminal
npx degit https://github.com/gastownhall/beads/tree/main/.claude/skills/beads-docs ~/.claude/skills/beads-docs

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/gastownhall/beads.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file
.claude/skills/beads-docs/SKILL.md in gastownhall/beads
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/beads-docs
Collection
One of 3 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
Writing1012 skills

What Beads Documentation does

Beads Documentation defines the house style and conventions for writing, editing, and reviewing the beads user documentation under docs/. Use it when working on any docs pages, concept docs, reference, integration guides, recovery runbooks, diagrams, or navigation.

Beads Documentation is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Beads Documentation comes from a repository tagged agents, claude-code and coding.

Documentation

README

Writing beads docs

This is the house style for docs/ — the beads user documentation, published as a Mintlify site. The goal is docs that motivate before they jargon, say the same thing the same way everywhere, show concepts as pictures and snippets instead of walls of prose, and never drift from the code. Apply it to any page you create, edit, or review.

The audience of docs/ is a user of beads — a human or agent installing bd, tracking work, and syncing it. Contributor-facing material lives in engdocs/ and AGENTS.md and follows different rules (it may describe the implementation literally). When this skill says "the docs," it means docs/.

1. The canonical model

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Beads Documentation

  • What else does gastownhall publish alongside Beads Documentation?

    Beads Documentation is one of 3 skills that DirSkills catalogs from gastownhall/beads, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Beads and Beads. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Beads Documentation does, and is maintained by gastownhall in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the gastownhall/beads page.

  • How does Beads Documentation compare to other Writing skills?

    Beads Documentation ranks #42 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Beads Documentation against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.