Beads Quickstart

Canonical documentation: Quick Start (published) — browse the full tutorial with navigation and search.

Source in this repo: website/docs/getting-started/quickstart.md (what GitHub Pages builds from; the docs/ copy here is a pointer for deep links and agents).

Ultra-short path

1. Install bd — see Installation or the site installation page.
2. In your project: bd init
3. Create work: bd create "My task" -p 1 then bd ready

For dependencies, sync, Notion, migrations, and maintenance, use the full Quick Start linked above.

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Why Beads?

See Why Beads? on the documentation site.

Dependencies

See Add dependencies on the documentation site (blocking dependencies and bd dep).