Gas City

Overview

Gas City is the modular successor to gas-town. Where Gas Town is an opinionated orchestrator, Gas City aims to expose the constituent parts: identity, roles, messaging, cost tracking, model dispatch, molecules, seances, and federated work exchange. It is the builder-kit version of the same instinct, and the current Yegge material increasingly treats it as the future-facing line while Gas Town settles into maintenance mode.

Modular primitives

Yegge’s description repeatedly frames Gas City as LEGO-like: instead of one factory topology, provide parts from which many topologies can be assembled. This matters because it moves the harness discussion from “which worker is best” to “which coordination graph is native to the problem.” See agent-harness-anatomy and new-harness-design-notes.

Wasteland federation

The Wasteland concept extends the local swarm into a federated trust network with wanted boards, validators, rigs, reputation stamps, and Dolt-backed data exchange. This is a more ambitious notion of memory and collaboration than ordinary repo-local handoff files. It is also one that raises correspondingly ambitious questions about trust, schema migration, and governance.

Strengths

• Clear path from monolithic orchestrator to modular platform.
• Strong integration with Beads and Dolt-backed federation.
• Richer support for custom roles, reputational signals, and inter-town cooperation.

Weaknesses and limits

The material is explicitly alpha-stage and expects migrations. Gas City is conceptually compelling, but a concept can still be half scaffolding and half prophecy. One should not confuse architectural promise with complete implementation.

Relationships

Gas City is the most forward-looking orchestration system in this wiki’s source set. It informs work-management-primitives, stretches memory-persistence into federated territory, and heavily influences new-harness-design-notes.