Gas Town (Steve Yegge)
Open source, written in Go, released January 1, 2026. It runs 20 to 30 Claude Code instances in parallel inside tmux and gives them themed roles: a Mayor coordinating, Polecats doing the work, a Refinery that checks and merges, a Witness watching for stuck workers, and a few more. Work items live in Beads, Yegge's git-backed issue tracker, so the whole thing survives crashes and restarts because it's just files in git.
Yegge spends a big chunk of his launch post telling people not to use it unless they're already deep into agent work, and reviewers (Maggie Appleton among them) found the design sprawling. Since then Kilo has launched a hosted version, and "the Wasteland" lets many Gas Towns coordinate with each other.
Good fit if: you want to see the maximalist end of local orchestration and don't mind the token bill. Beads alone is probably the most reusable part.
https://maggieappleton.com/gastown
https://thenewstack.io/steve-yegges-ai-agent-orchestration-project-gas-town-comes-to-the-cloud-and-brings-the-wasteland-with-it/
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