Might be worth a look if you’re evaluating alternatives to Beads.
I have some older projects that use beads (I still run an old version without dolt that's imho pretty good overall) but lately with Fable also have a few newer projects where I just have the agent write docs and keep a worklog with the what/why/decisions etc. (I think I read it here on HN somewhere and figured I'd give that a try.)
The latter seems to work pretty well for now (slightly better than beads) but I'm always looking for ways to improve it. This could be an interesting replacement.
Great work man.
“ayy lmao”
I asked fable to look at my interaction patterns and clearly stated my frustrations and the problems I wanted solved, and it designed a simple process to track things in git and built a couple simple session hook skills. It’s pretty lightweight and I’ve been very happy with it for a couple months.
I get a long way using models like Opus to make a plan of action and a bunch of tasks, and then using Deepseek to implement that plan of action. Saves a bunch of money and is fast.
- I have a record of work done and work to be done that helps _me_ when I come back to the project after several months. It’s committed and lives with the code.
- when a task inevitably ends up more complicated than I thought, I can in that session break it up
- I initiate sessions from multiple computers, so things stay in sync (through git)
- I also have a “tooling” repo that builds out some views of the work and hosts it for me to see when I’m on my phone.
- The hooks let the agent manage all of the workflow/task management, so there’s very little management overhead for me.
I rejected beads and JIRA. I wanted something more lightweight.
My main conversation is usually with an orchestrator that hands off work to various (usually cheaper) subagents to plan / review / etc. It has instructions to find the correct model for each task and not to do too much itself so a multi-phase plan automatically gets a fresh subagent for each phase.