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Gastown (GitHub Repo)
Gas Town is a new open-source platform that orchestrates multiple AI agents by persisting their state in git-backed hooks to survive crashes and restarts.
What: Developed by Steve Yegge, Gas Town manages multiple coding agents like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot by using 'beads' (structured data) and git-backed worktrees. It features a TUI activity feed, a three-tier watchdog for health monitoring, and a refinery for merge queue management.
Why it matters: The ecosystem is shifting from single-agent setups to multi-agent swarms, creating a need for infrastructure that treats agent work state as first-class, persistent, and verifiable data rather than ephemeral memory.
Takeaway: Run 'gt install ~/gt --shell --git' to initialize a workspace, then use 'gt rig add' to connect your projects for multi-agent orchestration.
Deep dive
- Mayor: A Claude Code-based coordinator that manages workspace context and agent assignments.
- Hooks: Git worktree-based storage that ensures agent progress is saved even if processes crash.
- Polecats: Ephemeral worker agents that retain identity and work history through persistent hooks.
- Refinery: A merge queue inspired by Bors that automates batching, testing, and merging of completed agent tasks.
- Wasteland: A federated network using DoltHub to share work tasks and build reputation scores across different Gas Town instances.
- Witness/Deacon/Dogs: A watchdog hierarchy that monitors agent health and dispatches maintenance tasks for stuck or failing agents.
- Beads: A structured data format for tracking work state that allows for cross-agent task handoffs and progress reporting.
Decoder
- Bors: A popular bot-based merge queue for GitHub that prevents broken builds by ensuring tests pass on the merged result before updating the main branch.
- Dolt: A SQL database that versions data just like a git repository, allowing for branching, merging, and diffing of data.
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