Gas Town

Gas Town is an open-source multi-agent workspace manager for coordinating fleets of AI coding agents such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex and Gemini. Created by Steve Yegge, it wraps whimsical town metaphors around a serious idea: agent work should persist in git-backed storage instead of vanishing when a session ends. Launched in late 2025, it has quickly earned about 18,500 stars on GitHub.

Overview

A Gas Town workspace, the Town, contains Rigs that wrap your git repositories. An AI coordinator called the Mayor holds the full context of your projects, while worker agents, Polecats, pick up tracked units of work called Convoys from a git-backed issue ledger provided by Beads. Work state lives in Hooks, git worktrees that survive crashes and restarts, and a Refinery merge queue batches, verifies and lands finished work. Watchdog roles monitor agent health, escalate blockers by severity, and a scheduler prevents API rate-limit exhaustion, so teams can scale from a handful of agents to twenty or thirty without chaos.

Key Features

• Orchestrates 20-30 AI coding agents across multiple projects from one workspace
• Git-backed persistence: work state, issues and handoffs survive agent restarts
• The Mayor, an AI coordinator with full workspace context that dispatches the work
• Refinery merge queue with verification gates for landing agent-produced changes
• Health monitoring, severity-routed escalation and a capacity scheduler for rate limits
• Works with Claude Code, Copilot, Codex, Gemini and other CLI agent runtimes

💳 Pricing

Gas Town is completely free and open source under the MIT license. You run it on your own machines and pay only for the underlying AI agent subscriptions or APIs you use.

Who Is It For

Gas Town is for power users and engineering teams running many coding agents in parallel who need durable work tracking, coordination and merge discipline instead of a pile of disconnected terminal sessions.