Tick
Deterministic task tracking for AI-assisted coding
What it does
Tick is a lightweight task management CLI designed for AI coding agents. It prioritises determinism, simplicity, and zero-friction git integration. A fast Go CLI that tracks coding tasks in a machine-readable way so AI agents can reliably understand progress. Tasks are stored as a simple JSONL ledger and exposed / readable via a SQLite cache store. Outputs pretty in the terminal for humans, and TOON for AIs.
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all alternatives →- IRI replaced Beads with a faster, simpler Markdown-based task trackerJan 2026 · github.com · ▲84
I've been running long duration coding agents with Claude Code for about 6 months now. Steve Yegge released Beads back in October and I found that giving Claude tools for proper task tracking was a massive unlock. But Beads grew massively in a short time and every release made it slower and more frustrating to use. I started battling it several times a week as its background daemon took to syncing the wrong things at the wrong times. Over the holidays I finally ripped it out and wrote ticket as a replacement. It keeps the core concept I actually cared about (graph-based task dependencies)…
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