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This extension brings the full Beans experience into VS Code with native tree views, AI integration, and powerful workflow automation.\n\n[![Version](https://img.shields.io/badge/dynamic/json?url=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Fselfagency%2Fbeans-vscode%2Fmain%2Fpackage.json\u0026query=%24.version\u0026label=Version\u0026color=blue)](https://github.com/selfagency/beans-vscode/releases)\n[![Tests](https://github.com/selfagency/beans-vscode/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/selfagency/beans-vscode/actions/workflows/tests.yml)\n[![codecov](https://codecov.io/github/selfagency/beans-vscode/graph/badge.svg?token=2TKB7KQ6II)](https://codecov.io/github/selfagency/beans-vscode)\n[![Remote Tests](https://github.com/selfagency/beans-vscode/actions/workflows/remote-test.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/selfagency/beans-vscode/actions/workflows/remote-test.yml)\n[![Release](https://github.com/selfagency/beans-vscode/actions/workflows/release.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/selfagency/beans-vscode/actions/workflows/release.yml)\n[![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)\n\n## Key Features\n\n- **🌴 Tree Views**: Organized sidebar panes for drafts, open, completed, and scrapped beans with hierarchical nesting, in-progress descendant badges, and item counts\n- **📋 Details View**: Rich webview panel with rendered markdown, interactive checklists, editable properties, relationship navigation, and browsing history with back navigation\n- **🔍 Search \u0026 Filter**: Full-text search across all fields, filter by status/type/priority/tags, five sort modes, and dedicated search results view with context menus\n- **🎯 Drag \u0026 Drop**: Create parent-child hierarchies visually with cycle detection and confirmation\n- **🔗 Relationships**: Parent-child hierarchies (milestone \u003e epic \u003e feature \u003e task) and blocking/blocked-by dependency tracking\n- **🤖 AI Integration**: Consolidated MCP tools for query/update/batch/file/log workflows, `@beans` chat participant with 7 slash commands, auto-generated Copilot skills \u0026 instructions, and \"Start Work\" templates for Copilot-assisted workflows\n- **🌐 Remote Ready**: Works seamlessly in SSH, WSL, containers, and Codespaces\n- **⚡ Keyboard-First**: Configurable shortcuts for all operations\n- **📂 File Watching**: Automatic tree refresh on filesystem changes with configurable debounce\n- **🛡️ Resilient**: Offline mode with caching, request deduplication, retry with exponential backoff, malformed bean detection, and structured error handling with actionable guidance\n- **🧪 Extensively Tested**: Comprehensive automated unit and integration test suite\n- **♿ Accessible**: Built following WCAG 2.2 Level AA guidelines\n- **🤫 Privacy Respecting**: No telemetry or data collection of any kind\n- **🐶 Completely Dogfooded**: The extension was used by the developer to project manage developing the extension\n\n## About Beans\n\nBeans is a modern, file-based issue tracker designed for developers who want their issues to live alongside their code. Each \"bean\" is a markdown file in your repository—no databases, no external services, just version-controlled files.\n\n**Why file-based?**\n\n- ✅ Version controlled with your code\n- ✅ Readable in any text editor\n- ✅ Works offline\n- ✅ No vendor lock-in\n- ✅ Greppable and scriptable\n- ✅ Perfect for remote development\n\nLearn more about Beans: [github.com/hmans/beans](https://github.com/hmans/beans)\n\n## Quick Start\n\n### Install the [`beans`](https://github.com/hmans/beans#installation) CLI\n\n#### macOS (Requires Homebrew)\n\n```bash\nbrew install hmans/beans/beans\n```\n\n#### Linux, MacOs, Windows (Requires Go)\n\n```bash\ngo install github.com/hmans/beans@latest\n```\n\n### Install the Beans extension\n\nUse the IDE's Extension sidebar to search for `beans` or execute the following command:\n\n```bash\ncode --install-extension selfagency.beans-vscode\n```\n\n### Initialize Beans in your project\n\n#### Option 1: Command Palette\n\n1. Open your project in VS Code\n2. Press `Cmd+Shift+P` / `Ctrl+Shift+P`\n3. Run: \"Beans: Initialize Beans in Workspace\"\n\n#### Option 2: Terminal\n\n```bash\ncd \u003cproject-folder\u003e\nbeans init\n```\n\n### Create Your First Bean\n\n1. Click the `+` icon in the Beans sidebar\n2. Enter a title: \"My first bean\"\n3. Select type: \"task\"\n4. Optionally add a description\n5. Bean created! 🎉\n\n### View Beans\n\n- **Sidebar**: Click any bean in the Active tree\n- **Details Panel**: Opens with bean markdown content\n- **Edit**: Click pencil icon to edit bean file directly\n\n## Remote Development\n\nThis extension fully supports VS Code Remote Development (SSH, WSL, containers, Codespaces).\n\n**Critical requirement**: The Beans CLI must be installed on the **remote** machine, not your local machine.\n\n## Documentation\n\nFull user and developer documentation can be found at [beans.self.agency](beans.self.agency).\n\n## Support the Project\n\nIf you find this extension useful, please leave a review on the [VS Code Marketplace](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=selfagency.beans-vscode) or [Open VSX](https://open-vsx.org/extension/selfagency/beans-vscode). Reviews help other developers discover the extension.\n\n## License\n\n[MIT](./LICENSE)\n\n## Credits\n\n- **[Hendrik Mans](https://github.com/hmans)**: Creator of Beans\n\n## Accessibility Note\n\nThis extension is built with accessibility in mind following WCAG 2.2 Level AA guidelines, but issues may still exist. Please manually test keyboard navigation and screen-reader workflows. Consider auditing with [Accessibility Insights](https://accessibilityinsights.io/).\n\nFeedback and accessibility improvement suggestions are welcome—please file an issue!\n","funding_links":[],"categories":[],"sub_categories":[],"project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fselfagency%2Fbeans-vscode","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fselfagency%2Fbeans-vscode","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fselfagency%2Fbeans-vscode/lists"}