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>>latchk+(OP)
There are a ton of interesting ideas in the README - things like the way it uses the birthday paradox to decide when to increase the length of the hash IDs.

This tool works by storing JSONL in a .beads/ folder. I wonder if it could work using a separate initially-empty "beads" branch for this data instead? That way the beads data (with its noisy commit history) could travel with the repository without adding a ton of noise to the main branch history.

The downside of that is that you wouldn't be able to branch the .beads/ data or keep it synchronized with main on a per-commit basis. I haven't figured out if that would break the system.

>>simonw+dx
The way I read it is beads steers agents to make use of the .beads/ folder to stay in sync across machines. So, my understanding is a dedicated branch for beads data will break the system.

>>wowami+6y
But wouldn't that dedicated branch, pushed to origin, also work for staying synced across multiple machines?

>>simonw+8z
The way I understand this, when the agent runs `bd onboard` at startup, it gets the instructions from beads, which might refer to data files in the beads directory. Keeping them in sync via a separate branch would be an unnecessary overhead. Right?

>>wowami+Rz
I don't see it as extra overhead - it just changes the git one-liner they use to push and pull their issue tracking content by a few characters.

I like the idea of keeping potentially noisy changes out of my main branch history, since I look at that all the time.

>>simonw+RA
You are right. I dug through the document some more. The setup, as mentioned for protected branches [1], should ideally work without much overhead. It does suggest merging back to main, but the FAQ also mentions that the frequency can be decided individually.

[1] https://github.com/steveyegge/beads/blob/main/docs/PROTECTED...