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• wedow/ticket: Fast, powerful, git-native ticket tracking in a single bash script. Dependency graphs, priority levels, zero setup.

  • CLI/Tool that implements a git-backed issue tracker for AI agents.

  • Data Model

    • Markdown Yaml Frontmatter files in .tickets/.

  • My Notes

    • there's a "migrating from beads" section of the README with a Beads uninstall script migrate-beads
    • Rooted in the Unix/Philosophy
      • inspired by Person/Joe Armstrong/Blog/14/06/25/Minimal Viable Program
    • as of 2026-05-26 Tue, hasn't been updated in two months, probably because it's got a small surface area
    • uses Behavior/Driven/Development with the behave python library; see the features directory for files such as ticket_notes.feature.

  • Features

    • supposedly allows managing and querying against complex issue dependency graphs (unverified)

  • Engineering Choices

    • written in Shell/Script; see the ticket executable.

  • Installation

    • Getting the Exec/ut/able

      • brew

        • brew tap wedow/tools
          brew install ticket

      • git clone and symlink, then git pull for updates

    • AI/Agent/Setup

      • Agents.md

        • This project uses a CLI ticket system for task management. Run tk help when you need to use it.