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Beans 0.4.2, published by hmans, is a lightweight, command-line issue tracker that keeps software development tasks inside the project folder itself instead of relying on external web services or databases. Written for both humans and autonomous coding agents, the tool writes every bug report, feature request, or general to-do as an ordinary Markdown file inside a hidden “.beans” directory, making version control, diffing, and offline access trivial. A built-in GraphQL endpoint exposes the same data to AI agents that need contextual awareness of open issues, priorities, or assigned owners, while an interactive terminal UI—navigable with keyboard shortcuts—lets human developers add, edit, label, filter, and close items without leaving the shell. Because all state is stored as flat text, road-map documents can be regenerated on demand, turning the issue backlog into publishable Markdown minutes before a release meeting. The program therefore fits the “Project Management & Planning” category, yet its file-based philosophy also aligns it with minimalist dev-ops utilities that prize transparency and scriptability. Two public versions have been released so far, indicating steady iteration toward a 1.0 feature set. Beans is available for free on get.nero.com, with downloads provided via trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always delivering the latest version and supporting batch installation of multiple applications.
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