Show HN: I replaced Beads with a faster, simpler Markdown-based task tracker

Summary

ticket The git-backed issue tracker for AI agents. tk is inspired by the Joe Armstrong post Minimal Viable Program with additional quality of life features for managing and querying against complex issue dependency graphs. tk was written as a full replacement for beads. It shares many similar commands but without the need for keeping a SQLite file in sync or a rogue background daemon mangling your changes. It ships with a migrate-beads command to make this a smooth transition. Tickets are markdown files with YAML frontmatter in .tickets/ . This allows AI agents to easily search them for relevant content without dumping ten thousand character JSONL lines into their context window. Using ticket IDs as file names also allows IDEs to quickly navigate to the ticket for you. For example, you might run git log in your terminal and see something like: nw-5c46: add SSE connection management VS Code allows you to Ctrl+Click or Cmd+Click the ID and jump directly to the file to read the details. Install Homebrew (macOS/Linux): brew tap wedow/tools brew install ticket Arch Linux (AUR): yay -S ticket # or paru, etc. From source (auto-updates on git pull): git clone https://github.com/wedow/ticket.git cd ticket && ln -s " $PWD /ticket " ~ /.local/bin/tk Or just copy ticket to somewhere in your PATH. Requirements tk is a portable bash script requiring only coreutils, so it works out of the box on any POSIX system with bash installed. The query command requires jq . Uses rg (ripgrep) if available, falls back to grep . Agent Setup Add this line to your CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md : This project uses a CLI ticket system for task management. Run `tk help` when you need to use it. Claude Opus picks it up naturally from there. Other models may need additional guidance. Usage tk - minimal ticket system with dependency tracking Usage: tk < command > [args] Commands: create [title] [options] Create ticket, prints ID -d, --description Description text --design Design notes --acceptance Acceptance...