[jaffee]

> You installed Beads, completely oblivious to the fact that it's basically uninstallable malware.

Did I miss something? I haven't used it in a minute, but why is the author claiming that it's "uninstallable malware"?

[wild_egg]

Have a read through everything that's needed for a full uninstall: https://gist.github.com/banteg/1a539b88b3c8945cd71e4b958f319...

Minimalist alternative with no hooks or dependencies for the curious: https://github.com/wedow/ticket

[stavros]

Ticket looks great, thanks!

[vardalab]

It's not really malware, but it's a mess. It installed so much shit and it interfered with your git hooks and stuff. It was kind of messy. I kind of gave up on it. I just went back to using built-in claude code todowrite tasks.

[the_mitsuhiko]

It managed to throw itself into a global file for me that Claude used which caused beads to appear in random projects on my machine. Because of how it was there the agent attempted to re-install beads after I already removed it because the guy hook errored.

[skybrian]

Haven't tried it, but this rewrite might be better?

https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/beads_rust

[moeffju]

Try https://github.com/hmans/beans - I find it a refreshingly pragmatic take that works great with my agents use.

[michaelbarton]

Malware might be a bit of stretch but could refer to this issue?

https://github.com/steveyegge/beads/issues/1857

[dwaltrip]

Maybe they meant un-uninstallable?

[jaffee]

oh yeah, that's actually how I read it though now I realize it's nonsensical... like when someone says "I could care less" when they actually mean "couldn't"