lean-collab

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multi-agent orchestration

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#1,170of 4,366 in 2026
Top 27%of 2026 by points

How HN took it

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4 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.

Idea: 4 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Clean approach of bounded blast radius and code-encoded policy

    From 1 comment
    • Great work! I like the approach of maximum freedom inside bounded blast radius and how you use code to encode policy.
      visarga on HN
  • Lean verification makes the feedback loop objective

    From 1 comment
    • The Lean angle here is really interesting: most multi-agent demos dodge hard verification, but tying each agent’s output to makes the feedback loop objective. Curious how you’re…
      raphaelmolly8 on HN

Objections

  • One well-tuned agent is enough for most tasks; multi-agent adds overhead

    From 2 comments
    • Even Anthropic research articles consistently demonstrate they themselves use one agent, and just tune the harness around it. I ignore all Skills, MCPs, and view all of these as…
      gck1 on HN
    • Thats the other thing, you hit the nail on the head, I dont want 20 agents unless they're doing research and scouring code. Claude can do that just fine. I want Claude Code doing…
      giancarlostoro on HN
  • Hard to observe many agents at once

    From 1 comment
    • Even Anthropic research articles consistently demonstrate they themselves use one agent, and just tune the harness around it. I ignore all Skills, MCPs, and view all of these as…
      gck1 on HN
  • Requires a proprietary Ensue API key

    From 1 comment
    • seems like it requires an API key to your proprietary Ensue memory system
      slopusila on HN

Requests

  • Add clearer signup and API key recovery flow

    From 1 comment
    • When you get a chance to work on your login flow, I recommend giving users an opportunity to request the key rather than automatically showing it once only on the first screen. I…
      yodon on HN
  • Suggest workloads to test next

    From 2 comments
    • Math proofs are really easy to run with this specific harness. Our next experiments are going to be bigger, think full code base refactors. We're working on applying RLM to…
      austinbaggio on HN
    • Cool, what’s a good first task to try this on where it’s likely to beat a single agent?
      christinetyip on HN
  • Offline open-model setup for VPS

    From 1 comment
    • Impressive! Are there any boilerplates that people know of for running something similar to this using open offline models? Would be cool to run this (or a single agent version)…
      hsdev on HN

Questions

  • How does progress subscription work

    From 1 comment
    • “How does progress subscription work — are agents watching specific signals (test failures, TODO list, build status), or just a global feed?”
      zmanian on HN
  • How are goal claim conflicts handled

    From 1 comment
    • The Lean angle here is really interesting: most multi-agent demos dodge hard verification, but tying each agent’s output to makes the feedback loop objective. Curious how you’re…
      raphaelmolly8 on HN
  • Is shared memory RAM or a markdown file

    From 1 comment
    • So is this shared memory as in RAM or a markdown file that they update with their statuses?
      arbol on HN

Alternatives named

  • Beads

    From 2 comments
    • I feel like there's two camps: * Throw more agents * Use something like Beads I'm in the latter, I don't have infinite resources, I'd rather stick to one agent and optimize what…
      giancarlostoro on HN
    • Thats the other thing, you hit the nail on the head, I dont want 20 agents unless they're doing research and scouring code. Claude can do that just fine. I want Claude Code doing…
      giancarlostoro on HN
  • GasTown

    From 1 comment
    • For the moment, researching multi-agent orchestration. At first glance, your work looks among the best in class of published work I've seen. Particularly interested to understand…
      yodon on HN
  • Claude Code swarms

    From 1 comment
    • For the moment, researching multi-agent orchestration. At first glance, your work looks among the best in class of published work I've seen. Particularly interested to understand…
      yodon on HN
  • Ralph loop

    From 1 comment
    • It's a more of a black box with claude, at least with this you see the proof strategy and mistakes made by the model when it decomposes the problem. I think instead of Ralph…
      miligauss on HN

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