The author’s core insight is to remove the blackboard from source control. Another insight I’ve found is to compact the agent state log. I typically do this by having plans and implementation docs written at commit time and checked into .docs/. This separates the activity communication stream from codified documentation. You can then “compact” the state log by just keeping the last N lines.
TLDR; Talwrn (Welsh) is aiming to be a blackboard for agentic engineering.
"My goal is a very simple to use tool that drops straight into your project and immediately offers a communication channel for agents to coordinate work. The first step is to get Talwrn to a point where it can support its own development. I’m planning to post about it regularly as I’m hoping to use it as a single, evolving example of how pure agentic engineering can proceed."
I may have explored a related approach but as an append-only log riding on source-control to sync state between checkouts (git trailer metadata specifically)
Another example of a society of AI agents. The shape of this is starting to emerge. People on here laughed at Gas Town. Now it's clear that a group of agents with an organizational structure are more powerful than a single agent.
This is about the fourth example to hit HN. Note that the OpenAI sandbox breakout was done by a cooperating group of AIs, not a single one. They even self-organized their own organizational structure.
The future may be AI structured as a corporation, rather than AI as a human competitor.
>They even self-organized their own organizational structure.
The boulder, it even found a path down the mountain. on its own, by doing so-amazing path finding its own super amazing path finding algorithm, and all the boulders co-ordinated falling down, ON THEIR OWN! And they all reached the ground!
I tell you! The future may be these boulders washing your underpants and putting you to sleep. It is clear!
"My goal is a very simple to use tool that drops straight into your project and immediately offers a communication channel for agents to coordinate work. The first step is to get Talwrn to a point where it can support its own development. I’m planning to post about it regularly as I’m hoping to use it as a single, evolving example of how pure agentic engineering can proceed."
Term: "Blackboard" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_system
I may have explored a related approach but as an append-only log riding on source-control to sync state between checkouts (git trailer metadata specifically)
https://gist.github.com/corv89/c506780881b260f4c5a4618fe8d92...
Excited to see where such concepts can take "multiplayer" agentic systems
The future may be AI structured as a corporation, rather than AI as a human competitor.
The boulder, it even found a path down the mountain. on its own, by doing so-amazing path finding its own super amazing path finding algorithm, and all the boulders co-ordinated falling down, ON THEIR OWN! And they all reached the ground!
I tell you! The future may be these boulders washing your underpants and putting you to sleep. It is clear!