Solving Agent Context Loss: A Beads and Claude Code Workflow for Large Features

I wrote this because I kept hitting the same wall with AI coding assistants. Small tasks work fine, medium ones when planned properly. But when I tried building something real, like a real new service in a real production system it was always difficult to keep an agent like Claude Code on track throughout an entire feature implementation.

After recently finding Beads here on HN, my entire development workflow changed (again). I realized that context is state, I am a developer who knows how to handle state.

Naturally I pieced together a couple of existing Claude Code skills, and wrote a couple of my own, and ended up with a workflow that actually delivers on automating the entire idea to shipping pipeline.

- Brainstorming produces a design doc - Design becomes an implementation plan - Plan converts to a Beads epic with inferred dependencies - Epic executes autonomously with two-stage review per task

I'm sharing it on HN because I suspect others are hitting similar problems and working around them in ad-hoc ways.

Nothing groundbreaking, but it actually works.

https://jx0.ca/solving-agent-context-loss/