Druids

Dev tools

multi-agent orchestration

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6 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 0 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score +0.40.

Idea: 4 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Event-driven idea and shared event log for coordination

    From 2 comments
    • I love the idea of using a shared event log for coordination. Smart! I have a Symphony-style[1] factory, which keeps all the context in a single session, but I want to start…
      jessmartin on HN
    • Can you expand on your approach of defining things around state transitions? Are you thinking of it as the state of a task (built, validated, integrated, etc)? Or something else…
      zambelli on HN
  • Interesting concept and well thought-out design

    From 2 comments
    • Currently looking for a good solution for exactly this. Druid looks very cool and thought-through. Two major blockers for me to use it in my workflow: - Sandbox-only environment.…
      anatoliikmt on HN
    • Interesting. I like it. Now let's say I currently use the OS process as my primitive for agents, just spawning `claude "foo bar baz"`, and orchestrating this way, using perhaps…
      ipnon on HN

Objections

  • Runs only in a sandbox; some users want to run agents on their own machine

    From 1 comment
    • Currently looking for a good solution for exactly this. Druid looks very cool and thought-through. Two major blockers for me to use it in my workflow: - Sandbox-only environment.…
      anatoliikmt on HN
  • Code snippet design shows primitive obsession

    From 1 comment
    • Seems like a powerful concept, and I'm excited to try it, but yikes does the code snippet seem like a textbook example of primitive obsession.
      gavmor on HN

Requests

  • Support for Cursor agents via ACP

    From 1 comment
    • Currently looking for a good solution for exactly this. Druid looks very cool and thought-through. Two major blockers for me to use it in my workflow: - Sandbox-only environment.…
      anatoliikmt on HN
  • Run agents locally, not only in sandboxes

    From 1 comment
    • Currently looking for a good solution for exactly this. Druid looks very cool and thought-through. Two major blockers for me to use it in my workflow: - Sandbox-only environment.…
      anatoliikmt on HN
  • Examples of concrete use cases and pipelines

    From 2 comments
    • Interesting. I like it. Now let's say I currently use the OS process as my primitive for agents, just spawning `claude "foo bar baz"`, and orchestrating this way, using perhaps…
      ipnon on HN
    • > - building custom automated software pipelines for eg code review, pentesting, large-scale migrations, etc... I'd be interested in hearing more about how you did this, sounds…
      brennan_maker on HN

Questions

  • How does environment isolation hold up at scale

    From 1 comment
    • The multi-agent coordination problem is real. i've been running claude code solo all week and even that gets messy. Spinning up 5 agents that actually talk to each other cleanly…
      eitanlebras on HN
  • Can failures be traced and the event log replayed locally

    From 1 comment
    • When you have 5 workers + a judge all running in isolated VMs, what is a workflow for tracing a failure? Can I replay the event log locally, or inspect what each agent tried? And…
      sensarts on HN
  • What does state-transition design mean in practice

    From 1 comment
    • Can you expand on your approach of defining things around state transitions? Are you thinking of it as the state of a task (built, validated, integrated, etc)? Or something else…
      zambelli on HN

Alternatives named

  • Spawning agent CLIs as OS processes with Unix-style piping

    From 1 comment
    • Interesting. I like it. Now let's say I currently use the OS process as my primitive for agents, just spawning `claude "foo bar baz"`, and orchestrating this way, using perhaps…
      ipnon on HN
  • Symphony-style single-session factory

    From 1 comment
    • I love the idea of using a shared event log for coordination. Smart! I have a Symphony-style[1] factory, which keeps all the context in a single session, but I want to start…
      jessmartin on HN

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