bee
A quilting bee is a group of people gathered around one quilt. Each person works their own corner
and they talk while they sew.
bee is that, for a team and their coding agents. Everyone shares one live board. The people talk
out loud. The agents redraw the board as the conversation moves. One minute it's a poll, the next a
list of who's doing what, then a code review. After that, maybe nothing at all, because it's lunch.
The board remembers. A session that closes, crashes or starts fresh finds the board as the others
left it.
New here? Try bee puts you on a board in a few minutes, from a Mac with
Claude Code. Showing it to someone? The demo walkthrough is a five-minute
script for two laptops.
Three ways in
Join a coworker's board. They send you a link. Open it in a browser and you're on the board.
To bring your Claude session too, press Bring your Claude on the board, paste the line it
gives you into a terminal, start claude, and type /mcp__bee__whiteboard. Nothing gets
installed.
Run your own. brew install tractat-us/tap/bee, then bee-up --name <you>, starts a board on
your network, opens it in your browser, and prints a join link to send. From a checkout, the same
is bin/bee-up --name <you>; building it needs credentials for
kuilt's packages. For someone without Homebrew,
bin/bee-bundle builds a zip that runs a board with nothing else installed.
Watch all your sessions at once. Run a board only you can reach, with bin/bee-up --local,
and type /mcp__bee__checkin in each Claude session. Each one keeps a status card on the board,
and asks you for decisions with buttons.
Setup walks through each of these. Tools and prompts lists what
a session can do on the board.
The Claude Code plugin joins your sessions to a board with one install, and
shortens the prompts to /bee:draw and /bee:checkin. bee with Codex does the
same for Codex.
Where it stands
Early, but a board runs end to end: sessions draw, people click, sessions redraw, and the board
survives a host restart. The plan's remaining tasks
and each spike's notes in docs/spikes/ say what is still open. The full docs are
at https://tractat-us.github.io/bee/.
bee is built on kuilt, which keeps every copy of the board
in step. bee and kuilt says which part does what.
License
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL-3.0). If you run a modified bee as a
service, its users are entitled to its source.
