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A Medium article by Steve Yegge introducing Beads, a git-backed, graph-based issue-tracker built to give coding agents persistent memory across sessions. It was released in October 2025 to address AI coding agents losing context between work sessions.

A January 2026 Steve Yegge Medium post introducing Gas Town, an orchestration system for running many Claude Code agent instances in parallel.

Beads and Gas Town: The Evolution of Coding Agent Memory

The landscape of AI coding assistants is evolving rapidly, and two recent developments from Steve Yegge are particularly interesting: Beads and Gas Town. These innovations address one of the fundamental challenges facing coding agents today: maintaining context and memory across sessions.

Anthropic's product page for Claude Code, an agentic coding tool that runs in the terminal or an IDE. It can read and edit a codebase, run commands, and carry out multi-step coding tasks.