“There's a JSON file, one line per issue, and it has merge conflicts all the time, and it gets xlerped into the database, and there's a daemon, and it gets stale.”
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From “Gas Town, Beads, and the Rise of Agentic Development”, found 2026-10-14.
This describes the early Beads storage, which the move to Dolt replaced. It isn't how Beads works today.