gc-work

Productivity

Finding, creating, claiming, and closing work items (beads)

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Work Items (Beads)

Everything in Gas City is a bead — tasks, messages, molecules, convoys. The gc bd CLI is the primary interface for bead CRUD.

Rig-scoped beads

Each rig has its own .beads/ database with its own ID prefix (e.g. fe- for frontend, be- for beads). A bead must live in the same database as the agent that will work on it. When you sling a bead to a rig-scoped agent, sling operates on the agent's rig database — so the bead must already exist there. The bead ID prefix tells you which rig it belongs to.

Use gc rig list to see rig names, paths, and prefixes.

Creating work

Use --rig to create beads in the right database. If the work will be dispatched to a rig-scoped agent, create the bead in that agent's rig:

gc bd create "title" --rig frontend         # Create in frontend's db (fe- prefix)
gc bd create "title" --rig beads            # Create in beads db (be- prefix)
gc bd create "title"                        # Create in current directory's .beads/
gc bd create "title" -t bug                 # Create with type
gc bd create "title" --label priority=high  # Create with labels

Finding work

gc bd list                                # List beads in current .beads/
gc bd list --rig <rigname>                # List beads in a specific rig
gc bd ready                               # List beads available for claiming
gc bd ready --label role:worker           # Filter by label
gc bd show <id>                           # Show bead details

Claiming and updating

gc bd update <id> --claim                 # Claim a bead (sets assignee + in_progress)
gc bd update <id> --status in_progress    # Update status
gc bd update <id> --label <key>=<value>   # Add/update labels
gc bd update <id> --note "progress..."    # Add a note

Closing work

gc bd close <id>                          # Close a completed bead
gc bd close <id> --reason "done"          # Close with reason

Hooks

gc hook show <agent>                   # Show what's on an agent's hook
gc agent claim <agent> <id>            # Put a bead on an agent's hook