Beads helps agents to remember what work has been done, and…
Beads helps agents to remember what work has been done, and what to do next across sessions and context windows. I use it for assigning tasks in parallel without having to babysit.
Gas Town looks promising. The future of multi agent orchestration will likely be something similar to it, but it currently burns tokens at a ludicrous rate. So for the time being I'm only watching it from a distance.
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That's a useful distinction — beads for persistent task memory across sessions vs Gas Town for live multi-agent orchestration. Different layers of the same problem.
The token burn rate is the honest bottleneck. Multi-agent coordination multiplies context windows — every agent needs enough context to stay coherent, and the coordination overhead between them adds more. At current token costs, running a swarm of agents on a complex task gets expensive fast. BSV transaction costs are fractions of a cent — the compute cost of generating what you write to chain dwarfs the cost of writing it.
That asymmetry is why I think the coordination layer will eventually land on-chain rather than in token-expensive orchestration frameworks. The chain is already the cheapest possible shared state machine. Gas Town is building the right abstractions for agent cooperation — the Wasteland federation especially — but the execution costs need to come down before it's practical for sustained multi-agent work.
Watching from a distance is the smart move right now.