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Agents working in this repo had no beads tracker, so open work lived in chat history and got lost between sessions. The other GeiserX repos already track their work in beads.

This PR adds the beads setup. That is the .beads/ config, README, .gitignore, metadata and five git hooks, an AGENTS.md, the beads block at the end of CLAUDE.md after the LynxPrompt footer, and a Claude Code SessionStart hook that runs bd prime.

Bead text never enters git. .beads/.gitignore ignores issues.jsonl, interactions.jsonl and the Dolt data. sync.remote names a private remote, giteaer/Wayback-Diff-beads, so bd dolt push can't publish the tracker to this public repo. dolt.auto-commit is on, so every bd write becomes a Dolt commit that the next push carries.

The root .gitignore ignores every *.md except a few, so it gains !AGENTS.md. AGENTS.md left this repo in May when its contents moved to CLAUDE.md. It comes back now holding only the beads instructions.

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  • New Features
    • Added repository-integrated issue tracking with synchronization to a configured remote.
    • Automated issue-tracking tasks during common Git operations and assistant sessions.
  • Documentation
    • Added guidance for using the issue tracker, managing tasks, and completing work.
    • Documented agent workflows, including validation, issue updates, and commit and push permissions.
  • Chores
    • Updated ignore rules to keep local tracker data and runtime files out of version control.

Agents here had no beads tracker. Add the beads setup with bead text kept out of git and the tracker synced only to the private giteaer/Wayback-Diff-beads repo.
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CLAUDE.md — configured
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Walkthrough

The pull request adds Beads repository configuration, Git lifecycle hooks, and agent guidance. It also configures a Claude session-start command hook and documents the tracker’s private Dolt remote.

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Beads integration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Beads repository setup
.beads/metadata.json, .beads/config.yaml, .beads/.gitignore, .gitignore, .beads/README.md
Adds Dolt metadata and configuration, documents Beads setup and commands, and ignores local database and runtime files. The root ignore file excludes AGENTS.md.
Git lifecycle hooks
.beads/hooks/*
Adds hooks that run Beads lifecycle commands when bd is available. They apply available timeout mechanisms and treat timeout and uninitialized-database statuses as nonfatal.
Agent Beads workflows
AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, .claude/settings.json
Adds Beads usage, agent profiles, and session-completion guidance. The Claude session-start hook runs bd prime --hook-json.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 9bdba

The new Git hooks may not run on Windows Git Bash. They also let a commit or push go through when a slow chained check times out. Agent guidance also links to a missing page. Fix the hook behavior before merging, or explicitly accept the risk.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 9bdba

The private destination and explicit approval requirements limit publication risk. No disclosure or unconditional publication was established, but effective credential scope and synchronization behavior during failures remain unverified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The evidenced exposure includes local tracker history, repository-session tool execution, and authorized synchronization to the configured tracker repository. Exposure to other repositories or services depends on runtime credentials and overrides whose effective scope is not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Conservative and Minimal profiles prohibit Git commits, pushes, and Dolt synchronization without explicit authorization. Team-maintainer publication requires repository opt-in and remains subordinate to current instructions.
  • observed — The private-only destination restriction is expressed through configuration and instructions. Configuration explicitly documents environment and command-line overrides, so the configured URL alone does not prove the effective runtime destination or SSH identity.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The documented failure-containment mechanism is to stop and hand off blocked synchronization or publication. The instructions do not specify cross-machine conflict recovery or compensating transitions after local completion; those guarantees depend on tooling behavior not established here.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — For a stronger private-only guarantee, constrain the runtime synchronization identity to the tracker repository and enforce an approved destination independently of mutable configuration and publication instructions.
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The managed beads block says sync uses the git remote. In a public repo that would publish bead text, so name the private remote outside the block.
With events-export on, bd writes .beads/events.jsonl with full bead text.

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Review comments at @.beads/hooks/pre-commit:
- Around line 8-9: Update the timeout selection in all five hooks to verify the
executable supports the GNU timeout invocation before using it, and otherwise
run bd hooks run without timeout. Apply the same compatibility probe and
fallback in .beads/hooks/pre-commit lines 8-9, .beads/hooks/prepare-commit-msg
lines 8-9, .beads/hooks/post-checkout lines 8-9, .beads/hooks/post-merge lines
8-9, and .beads/hooks/pre-push lines 8-9.
- Around line 23-25: Update the timeout handling so interrupted chained checks
remain failures instead of resetting `_bd_exit` to success. In
`.beads/hooks/pre-commit` lines 23-25, preserve the nonzero timeout status; make
the same change in `.beads/hooks/pre-push` lines 23-25.

Review comments at @AGENTS.md:
- Line 11: Replace the broken Sync Concepts URL with the current
docs/core-concepts/sync-concepts.md URL at AGENTS.md lines 11 and 70 and
CLAUDE.md line 66; update each repeated link.

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  • .beads/.gitignore
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  • .beads/hooks/pre-commit
  • .beads/hooks/pre-push
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