Parade (beads wrapper)

[JeremyKalmus]

Hey everyone,
I just added Parade to the community tools list and wanted to introduce it properly.
Quick background: I'm not a developer—I came to Claude Code as a non-technical user and got deep into it over the past few months. Beads solved task tracking perfectly, but I kept hitting a few walls:

Visibility — I was running dozens of sub-agents but couldn't see what any of them were doing. The terminal was just text flying by.
Persistence — I'd have a spec, tasks in progress, then hit a bug or a network issue. When I came back, Claude had forgotten everything. Had to start over.
Discovery — I didn't always know how to describe what I wanted or what technologies to use. I needed Claude to ask me questions before jumping into code.

So I built Parade as a wrapper on top of Beads to solve these.
What it adds:

Discovery phase with SME sub-agents (technical, domain, UI/UX, codebase context) that generate detailed specs before coding starts
Swimlane visualization (Electron app) showing real-time task status across batches
Persistent spec/task storage that survives session loss
Self-improving loop that documents new patterns for future features

Links:

GitHub: https://github.com/JeremyKalmus/parade
npm: npx parade-init

It's not polished—it came from solving my own problems. But if any of these pain points sound familiar, maybe it helps.
Happy to answer questions or hear feedback. And thanks to Steve for building Beads—none of this would exist without it.

[dhabedank]

Nice work @JeremyKalmus - tried it out last night and its pretty slick

[JeremyKalmus]

Thanks @dhabedank! I've been spending all my time on Gastown, I might need to come back to this, I have a lot of new ideas