Who’s keeping an eye on it: in beady-eye 0.37, a bead other agents watch is marked

Watch a bead with the watch tool of the Claude Code plugin, version 0.3.0, and beady-eye 0.37.0 ends that bead’s row in ◉. Open the bead and its window names each agent watching it, by the name herdr shows for it. The agent working the bead is not counted among its watchers.

brew upgrade codeforbreakfast/tap/bdi
# or
cargo install beady-eye

# the Claude Code plugin
claude plugin marketplace add CodeForBreakfast/beady-eye#plugin-v0.3.0
claude plugin install beady-eye@beady-eye

spoon $ bdi

▾ spoon  ✓ 6s ago                                                                          0/4  1 agent
  └── ○ spoon-1    The caff opens on Sundays                                                        0/4
      ├── ◐ .1         Get the Sunday rota signed off        ◍ chasing the last two shifts · working  ◉
      ├── ○ .2         Open the till on Sunday mornings                                             0/2
      │   └┄┄ ◐ spoon-1.1  Get the Sunday rota signed off    ◍ chasing the last two shifts · working  ◉
      └─▸ ○ .3         Add a Sunday drop to the bakery order                     0/2  ◍ 1 agent beneath
▾ ⚠ 2 panes working outside every configured project
  ├── ◍ wK:p3 idle  /srv/till
  └── ◍ wK:p4 idle  /srv/bakery

◐ spoon-1.1  Get the Sunday rota signed off
  in_progress · P2 · task · cook
  created 2026-10-24 · updated 2026-10-24
  ◍ chasing the last two shifts · working
  ◉ watched by front of house · waiting on the rota
  ◉ watched by bakery order · waiting on the rota

PARENT
  ↑ ○ spoon-1  The caff opens on Sundays

BLOCKS
  ← ○ spoon-1.2  Open the till on Sunday mornings
  ← ○ spoon-1.3  Add a Sunday drop to the bakery order

The ticket follows the cook

Write the agent’s Claude session id onto a bead as agent_session, beside agent_pane, and bdi shows the bead against whichever pane herdr finds that agent in. An agent can change station and keep its ticket. A pane taken over by a new agent no longer inherits the bead of the one that left. A bead with only agent_pane shows as it always did.

One cook, two tickets

Where two beads name the same agent’s session, or one session turns up in two live panes, bdi now reports a conflict and gives the agent to neither bead.

Eyes that stay open

When /clear or /resume starts a new session in the same terminal, plugin 0.3.0 moves its watches to the new session, and changes keep arriving. The move happens at the session’s next watch, unwatch or watching call. If the watcher drops a watch it had accepted, the session is told once, with the reason.

Before you upgrade

The watch mark needs both releases, because older plugins do not say which agent is watching. Against an older bdi, plugin 0.3.0 watches as before and marks nothing, so the two can be updated in either order. Where no watcher answers for a bead’s project, the bead window says who watches it is unknown. The release notes cover the join.agent_session_key setting and what --json now says about an agent’s session.

One cook at the stove. Two pairs of eyes on the rota. Order up.