diff --git a/.beads/issues.jsonl b/.beads/issues.jsonl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/.beads/metadata.json b/.beads/metadata.json
index c787975e..62b4fb1a 100644
--- a/.beads/metadata.json
+++ b/.beads/metadata.json
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 {
   "database": "beads.db",
-  "jsonl_export": "issues.jsonl"
+  "jsonl_export": "issues.jsonl",
+  "last_bd_version": "0.27.0"
 }
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