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Multi-agent workspace manager. Version 1.1.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-11.
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Package summary
Multi-agent workspace manager
Project links
Commands and aliases
- gastown
- gt
history
Project history and usage
Gas Town is a Go-based multi-agent workspace manager for coordinating AI coding agents across git-backed workspaces. Its package interest comes from turning agent orchestration into a local CLI workflow, with persistent work state, agent identities, mailboxes, handoffs, and merge-queue-style project operations.
Project history
The public repository was created in December 2025 and reached a 1.0.0 release in April 2026 after a sequence of pre-1.0 releases. The official README presents Gas Town as a workspace manager for Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Gemini, and other agents, built around town, rig, crew, hook, convoy, and bead concepts.
Version 1.0.0 was described by the project as a production-stability milestone after iterative development. The release notes called out Windows support, workflow formulas, a GitHub pull-request merge strategy for the refinery, security hardening, mayor approval gates, and a rate-limit watchdog plugin.
Adoption history
The official installation instructions put Homebrew first and also document npm and source builds, indicating a CLI-first distribution model aimed at developers running local agent workspaces. The README also lists Dolt, beads, tmux, Claude Code, Codex CLI, and GitHub Copilot CLI as surrounding tooling rather than treating Gas Town as a standalone binary.
How it is used
Typical usage starts by installing `gt`, creating a town workspace, adding a git-backed rig, adding a crew workspace, and attaching the mayor session. From there the tool manages agent dispatch, persistent hooks, convoys, escalation, session discovery, and merge processing.
Why package nerds care
Gas Town is notable as an early package-manager-distributed attempt to make multi-agent coding workflows reproducible with a conventional CLI, git worktrees, and installable dependencies. For package cataloging, it is interesting because it packages an AI-agent operating model rather than a narrow compiler, linter, or shell utility.
Timeline
- 2025: Public GitHub repository created.
- 2026: v0.5.0 through v0.13.0 pre-1.0 releases established the early release train.
- 2026: v1.0.0 released as a production-stability milestone.
- 2026: v1.2.x releases continued shortly after 1.0.
Related projects
- Gas Town integrates with beads for git-backed issue tracking and Dolt/DoltHub for some distributed coordination features. It is designed to orchestrate AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, and Gemini rather than replacing those runtimes.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: green
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risk classifier
green risk · low confidence · appliance
Why
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signals
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
gastown | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gt | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version1.1.0
manager updated2026-07-11
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:gastown |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.1.0 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://github.com/gastownhall/gastown |
| Repository | https://github.com/gastownhall/gastown |
| Last updated | 2026-07-11T16:05:17+02:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation