Gas Town is an orchestration system for managing 20-30 AI coding agents (like Claude Code) simultaneously. Built on the MEOW stack (Molecular Expression of Work), it uses Git-backed Beads as atomic work units, molecules as workflows, and a hierarchy of specialized agent roles (Mayor, Polecats, Refinery, Witness, Deacon) to coordinate parallel development. The system implements GUPP (Gas Town Universal Propulsion Principle) to keep agents working continuously across session restarts, uses tmux for UI, and organizes work into Convoys for tracking. It's designed for experienced developers already juggling 5+ AI agents daily, requires significant token budget, and operates on "nondeterministic idempotence" where workflows eventually complete despite agent crashes.
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