"Steve Yegge thinks he has the answer. The veteran engineer - 40+ years at Amazon, Google and Sourcegraph - spent the second half of 2025 building Gas Town, an open-source orchestration system that coordinates 20 to 30 Claude Code instances working in parallel on the same codebase. He describes it as "Kubernetes for AI coding agents." The comparison isn't just marketing. It's architecturally accurate."
"The core problem is familiar to anyone who's run distributed systems: Coordination. When multiple agents generate code against the same repo simultaneously, you get merge conflicts, duplicated work, and agents that stop when their context window fills up. Gas Town's structure maps surprisingly well to Kubernetes. Both coordinate unreliable workers toward a goal. Both have a control plane that monitors execution nodes, with local agents monitoring ephemeral workers. Both reconcile against a persistent source of truth."
Gas Town is an open-source orchestration system that coordinates 20 to 30 Claude Code instances working in parallel on a single codebase. The system targets developers running multiple agents and provides a single management interface. Parallel agent execution causes merge conflicts, duplicated efforts, and context-window limits. Gas Town mirrors Kubernetes architecture with a control plane, execution nodes, and local monitors, but focuses on completion rather than uptime. Seven specialized roles divide responsibilities: a Mayor interface, ephemeral Polecats producing merge requests, a Refinery managing a merge queue, a Witness monitoring worker health, a Deacon running patrol loops, Dogs handling maintenance, and persistent Crew for design collaboration. All state lives in Beads.
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