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Term -- Bead
Term -- Bead

A bead in Beads.

There are different types

Pinned Beads:

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A type of Bead

^ A type of Term -- Bead

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Glossary

Term Description Kind

Agent Bead A worker's persistent identity in the Term -- Bead data plane bead

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Term -- Epic

A Term -- Bead with children

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Term -- Molecule

Gas Town workflows. Persistent work that is stored as Term -- Beads.

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Term -- Protomolecule

A set of Term -- Beads that act as a template that helps you create Molecules

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spaced repetition prompts - blog section 11 - Wisps - Ephemeral Orchestration Beads

What type of Term -- Bead is not stored in git, and why? ? Wisps are not stored because they describe ephemeral Molecules of work. Storing them would just be orchestration noise.

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How do Wisps behave while they exist in the database? ? They get hash IDs and act like regular Term -- Bead, but are not written to the JSONL file and thus not persisted to Git.

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spaced repetition prompts - blog section 6 - Gastown Universal Propulsion Principle

Which Term -- Bead type is used for GUPP? ? Hook

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What makes a Pinned Bead different from a regular Term -- Bead? ? Pinned Beads float like yellow-sticky notes — they never get closed and don't show up in bd ready.

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spaced repetition prompts - blog section 9 - Molecular Expression of Work (MEOW)

What do you call a Term -- Bead with children? ? An Epic.

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What are the templates used to create workflows in the MEOW stack? ? Protomolecules — made of actual Term -- Beads with instructions and dependencies set up in advance.

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Why do Molecules survive agent crashes, compactions, and restarts? ? Because a molecule is a chain of Term -- Beads which is stored in Git. A new session just finds its place in the molecule and picks up where the last one left off.

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