Yeah this describes my feeling on beads too. I actually really like the idea - a lightweight task/issue tracker integrated with a coding agent does seem more useful than a pile of markdown todos/plans/etc. But it just doesnt work that well. Its really buggy and the bugs seem to confuse the agent since it was given instructions to do things a certain way that dont work consistently.
And also auditable, trackable, reportable, etc..
I was sort of kidding with "JIRA for Agents", obviously using the API and existing tool you can make agents use it.
We use Github at my current job and similarly have Claude Code update issues and PRs when it does work.