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Gas Town

Go CLI (gt) that coordinates many coding agents through a 'Mayor' coordinator, git-worktree hooks, a Beads issue ledger and a merge queue, with a terminal feed and web dashboard.

Reviewed by the Termdex team · facts checked 2026-10-28 against 5 vendor sources · how we check

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Gas Town review

Gas Town is a command-line system, run as gt, that coordinates many coding agents through a coordinator called the Mayor. Work state is stored in git worktrees and a Beads ledger. We read the vendor's site and GitHub pages in October 2026. We did not run an independent test.

Who it is for

Developers who want a free, MIT-licensed orchestration layer for many agents across several repositories, and who are willing to learn its role system.

What stands out

Work assigned to an agent lives in git-worktree "hooks", so a restart does not lose it. Finished work goes to a per-repository merge queue called the Refinery, which runs checks before merging. Three watchdog roles look for stuck agents.

The README lists built-in presets for 11 agent runtimes, including Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor, Copilot, Amp and OpenCode. A terminal feed (gt feed) and a web dashboard (gt dashboard) show activity.

Install paths are documented for macOS, Linux and Windows, plus Docker Compose. The latest tagged release is v1.2.1, published 6 June 2026, though the repository was last pushed on 25 October 2026.

Where it falls short

Price

No price is listed. The code is MIT-licensed, and we read the licence file. The agents it launches need their own subscriptions or keys; the README says the Copilot preset needs a Copilot seat. Seen 28 October 2026.

Verdict

Choose it if you want persistent work tracking and a merge queue for many agents, and you accept a tmux-based setup. Look elsewhere if you want a simple session switcher or a native Windows app.

Facts: platforms, price and licence

platforms
macOSLinuxWindowsREADME gives install paths for macOS (Homebrew), Linux and Windows (go install); release v1.2.1 has darwin, linux, windows and freebsd archives. README says full tmux-backed workflows on Windows need WSL or another Linux environment; native Windows shells are 'minimal CLI-only'. Docker Compose setup also documented.
price
FreeNo price; MIT-licensed open source. README names no paid tier. The agents it drives need their own subscriptions or keys (README notes the Copilot preset requires a Copilot seat) (seen 2026-10-28).
source
Open sourceLicence: MIT (LICENSE file read: standard MIT text, Copyright (c) 2025 Steve Yegge)
github
gastownhall/gastown 18.6k stars, seen 2026-10-28

Gas Town features

✓ documented · – absent or not in its feature list · ? not verified

Gas Town strengths

  • MIT licence with source on GitHub; README documents macOS, Linux and Windows install paths plus a Docker Compose setup
  • Work state is kept in git-worktree hooks and a Beads ledger, so an agent restart does not lose assigned work
  • Built-in presets for 11 agent runtimes, including claude, codex, gemini, cursor, copilot, amp and opencode
  • Includes a per-rig merge queue (Refinery), three watchdog tiers, a terminal activity feed (gt feed) and a web dashboard (gt dashboard)

Gas Town weak points

  • Heavy setup: needs Git, tmux 3.0+, Beads (bd), Dolt and for source builds Go 1.26.2+ and ICU headers
  • Windows is limited: README says full workflows need WSL, native shells are minimal CLI-only
  • Large vocabulary (Mayor, rigs, polecats, convoys, molecules, wisps) that the README itself points to a glossary for
  • Latest tagged release is v1.2.1 from June 2026 while commits continue to October; 512 open issues (GitHub API count, includes pull requests)

Who Gas Town is for

best for
Developers who want a free, MIT-licensed orchestration layer with persistent work tracking and a merge queue for many agents across repos.
look elsewhere if
Users who want a simple one-window session switcher or a GUI app without learning a role-based system and installing tmux, Beads and Dolt.

Lists that include Gas Town

Sources and what we could not verify

Checked 2026-10-28. Prices and features change; the vendor's page is the authority.

Not verified