[HN Gopher] Show HN: Druids - Build your own software factory
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       Show HN: Druids - Build your own software factory
        
       Hi HN!  Druids (https://github.com/fulcrumresearch/druids) is an
       open-source library for structuring and running multi-agent coding
       workflows. Druids makes it easy to do this by abstracting away all
       the VM infrastructure, agent provisioning, and communication. You
       can watch our demo video here
       (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVJqW-tvSy4) to see what it looks
       like.  At a high level:  - Users can write Python programs that
       define what roles the agents take on and how they interact with
       each other.  - A program is made of events - clear state
       transitions that the agents or clients can call to modify state.
       Each event gets exposed as an agent tool.  - Druids provisions full
       VMs so that the agents can run continuously and communicate
       effectively.  We made Druids because we were making lots of
       internal coding tools using agents and found it annoying to have to
       rearrange the wiring every time.  As we were building Druids, we
       realized a lot of our internal tools were easier to express as an
       event-driven architecture - separating deterministic control flow
       from agent behavior - and this design also made it possible to have
       many agents work reliably.  We had issues with scaling the number
       of concurrent agents within a run, so we decided to have each
       program run in an isolated sandbox program runtime, kind of the
       same way you run a Modal function. Each agent then calls the
       runtime with an agent token, which checks who can talk to who or
       send files across VMs, and then applies the tool call.  Our early
       users have found the library useful for:  - running many agents to
       do performance optimization  - building custom automated software
       pipelines for eg code review, pentesting, large-scale migrations,
       etc...  We've heard that the frontier labs have the infrastructure
       to quickly spin up 100 agents and have them coordinate with each
       other smoothly in various ways. We're hoping that Druids can be a
       starting point to make that infrastructure more accessible.
        
       Author : etherio
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2026-04-08 20:12 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | ethros wrote:
       | I'm going to check this out. I've been working on my end-to-end
       | development method and these types of holistic pipelines I think
       | are the future. (or the present!)
       | 
       | I've decided to start with concept capture, which then builds out
       | strategy docs, which feed into specs, etc ... might be time for
       | me to share, but I'm in the process of battle testing myself!
       | 
       | Looking at your post again, I guess I could script a concepting
       | agent to help hone the idea?
        
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