Flow sync status
Use when syncing Beads state to markdown, checking Flow status, refreshing context docs, validating task markers, or reporting ready/blocked Flow work.From its SKILL.md
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Flow Sync And Status
Use this lifecycle skill for status dashboards, sync, context refresh, cleanup checks, and drift reporting.
Beads mode: Skip every
bdinvocation when the SessionStart hook reportsBeads Backend: Missing (None)orDisabled via plugin config (useBeads=false). With no backend,/flow:syncis a no-op (announce and exit) and status falls back tospec.mdmarkers. Never halt for missing Beads. See../flow/references/discipline.md.
Workflow
- Read
.agents/beads.jsonbefore any sync/export decision. - Pull Beads state and notes as the source of truth.
- Regenerate synchronized markdown views without changing requirement text.
- Detect drift in workflow commands, tech stack, patterns, knowledge chapters, and references.
- Report ready, blocked, in-progress, and stale work with clear next actions.
Guardrails
/flow:syncALWAYS writes the reconciled markdown to disk. It is mandatory: regenerate every markdown file in.agents/specs/<flow_id>/(spec.md,learnings.md, and any other tracked markdown in the flow folder) — not justspec.md— so they all match Beads exactly, and persist them. Sync is never read-only/dry-run and must never finish without writing the markdown.- "Sync"/"export" means reconciling markdown ↔ Beads to identical reality on disk — NOT Dolt. NEVER run
bd dolt push/bd dolt pull(Dolt remote sync) orbd export(the optional JSONL snapshot) as part of sync. They are out of scope and only run if the user explicitly and separately asks for them. - Sync reads backend state; do not close, block, or mutate tasks during status reporting.
- Do not auto-stage/commit unless policy or the user explicitly allows it.
- Preserve human-written spec content; only update synchronized task/status regions.
- Ask before applying context-doc updates when sync detects drift.
Validation
- Confirm status comes from Beads, not markdown markers.
- Confirm broken file references, workflow drift, and sync policy decisions are reported.
- For this repo, run
make validate-skillsafter skill or command sync changes.
References Index
Example
User: "Flow status."
Action: read Beads state, summarize active flows, ready tasks, blockers, recent notes, and whether markdown views need sync.
What ships with it: 1 file
140 B alongside SKILL.md
agents/
- openai.yaml140 B
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- read beads configuration before sync decisions
- pull backend state as source of truth
- regenerate markdown views without changing requirement text
- detect drift in workflows, stack, and references
- report ready, blocked, in-progress, and stale work
- write reconciled markdown to disk on sync
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