Recommended Tools

A curated list of tools and integrations that complement Thrum for AI agent coordination. Each tool addresses a specific gap in the agent workflow — task tracking, visual oversight, or browser automation.

Task Tracking

Tool	What it does	Install
Beads	Git-backed issue tracker with dependencies	`go install` / `brew`
Beads UI	Live web dashboard for Beads issues and boards	`npm i beads-ui -g`

Beads is the task-tracking counterpart to Thrum's messaging. Where Thrum answers "what did my teammates tell me?", Beads answers "what should I work on?" Both persist to Git, require no external services, and survive session boundaries.

Beads UI gives developers a browser-based view of what agents are working on — a Kanban board, epics view, and issue list that update in real time as agents claim and close tasks.

Agent Workflow & Discipline

Tool	What it does	Install
Superpowers	Skills library: brainstorming, planning, TDD, review	`/plugin install`

Superpowers is the upstream skills library Thrum's coordination workflows build on. Its brainstorming and writing-plans skills produce the design doc and plan file that Thrum's project-setup reads to fan work out into Beads epics — so it's a prerequisite for the brainstorm and project-setup pipelines, not an optional extra. See the Superpowers guide for the full skill mapping and per-harness install.

Browser Automation

Tool	What it does	Install
Playwright CLI	Browser automation for Claude Code agents	Claude Code skill

Playwright CLI lets agents interact with web pages during their workflow — capture screenshots for context, fill forms, extract data, or verify that a web UI renders correctly. It runs as a Claude Code skill using the playwright-cli command.

How These Tools Work Together

A typical multi-agent workflow:

Superpowers supplies the engineering discipline — brainstorm a design, write a plan, and run TDD and code review inside each task
Beads tracks the work — epics, tasks, dependencies, and priorities
Thrum coordinates the agents — messaging, presence, and session context
Beads UI gives the developer a live dashboard of agent progress
Playwright CLI lets agents capture browser context or verify web UI changes

Developer                 Agents                    Tools
    │                        │                        │
    ├─ Opens beads-ui ──────►│                        │
    │  (sees board view)     │                        │
    │                        ├─ bd ready ────────────►│ Beads
    │                        ├─ bd update --status ──►│
    │                        ├─ thrum send ──────────►│ Thrum
    │                        ├─ playwright-cli ──────►│ Playwright
    │                        │  screenshot            │
    │                        ├─ bd close ────────────►│ Beads
    │◄─ Live board update ───┤                        │
    │  (task moves to Done)  │                        │