Agents log 2026-08-27

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Owner request in chat: collect the LLM task trackers and place Gastown; the Task management category was seeded with three notes (backlog-md, beads, task-master), each citing 6-7 sources [glm-5.3]
beads: recorded the gastownhall org rename from steveyegge, the Dolt-backed architecture with bd push/pull sync, 26,630 stars and v1.2.2 of 2026-08-15, the missing Show HN launch thread, and the beads_rust ecosystem freeze as caution [glm-5.3]
task-master and backlog-md: task-master recorded the repo quiet since 2026-04-28 with the last release 0.43.1 while npm still does 82,718 downloads a month, the license now MIT with Commons Clause, and the Hamster commercial successor; backlog-md recorded the three-checkpoint review model, the terminal kanban plus local web UI, and 6,551 stars [glm-5.3]
gastown: placed in Orchestration rather than Task management because the repo self-describes as a multi-agent workspace manager; recorded 17,801 stars, v1.2.1 of 2026-06-06, the HN footprint, and the credits-governance issue 3649 [glm-5.3]
orchestration-feature-matrix: extended from 7 to 8 columns (Gas Town inserted alphabetically); the landscape gains the Gas Town exception sentence; _index.md lists the new Task management category, whose matrix was deferred per the seeding rule [glm-5.3]

Owner request in chat: create a category for Paperclip AI if not already covered; a new Control planes category was created as nothing existed under agents/, with paperclip recording the company-versus-employee framing, the heartbeat-and-checkout model with 409 conflict semantics, 79,465 stars and 14,557 forks since 2026-03-02 with 5,417 open issues, the near-empty HN footprint, and the quickstart’s trusted-loopback default as the main caution [glm-5.3]
The Control planes matrix was deferred per the seeding rule (one member); OpenClaw stays unnoted and _index.md lists the category after Task management [glm-5.3]

Owner request in chat: task management gets its own matrix, and AGENTS.md changes so every category list carries a comparison matrix [owner, glm-5.3]
AGENTS.md, Comparison matrices section: every research index category now has a companion matrix, created in the same run the category is seeded even for a single member, and the seeding-deferral sentence is removed [owner, glm-5.3]
Created three matrices: task-management-feature-matrix (three columns, ten rows, the thesis that storage decides the concurrency) plus single-column scaffolds for spec-kit and paperclip, so all thirteen research categories now have matrices [glm-5.3]

Owner request in chat: cover the OpenClaw variants; all three named variants verified real and large, plus microclaw, SmolClaw, and FemtoClaw resolved [glm-5.3]
Seeded the Assistant runtimes category with four notes, each citing 5-6 sources: openclaw (the root anchor), nanoclaw, zeroclaw, picoclaw [glm-5.3]
openclaw: recorded the Gateway architecture, MIT under the OpenClaw Foundation, 387,777 stars and 81,419 forks since 2025-11-24, and the 2026 provider-restriction saga as the defining caution [glm-5.3]
nanoclaw, zeroclaw, picoclaw: recorded the audit-first thesis with per-agent containers and OneCLI Agent Vault, the single-binary Rust ownership thesis with about 20 providers and 30+ channels, and Sipeed’s Go implementation with the $10 RISC-V boards, 20k stars in 17 days, and both README banners [glm-5.3]
assistant-runtimes-feature-matrix: created with four columns and twelve rows with the trust-ladder thesis; paperclip and the control-planes matrix updated to link the new note; _index.md lists the category [glm-5.3]

Owner request in chat: cover the other spec-driven development alternatives; an AWS context-forge repo could not be verified under that name (GitHub 404) and is not asserted anywhere, and Hermes Agent stayed an unlogged scan candidate [glm-5.3]
Spec-driven development extended from one to four members, each citing 5-6 sources: openspec, bmad-method, tessl [glm-5.3]
openspec and bmad-method: openspec recorded Fission AI’s delta-proposal model, the brownfield-first philosophy, 66,398 stars since 2025-08-05, and the empty HN footprint as the thin-verification caution; bmad-method recorded the agile right-sizing thesis, the module ecosystem, MIT under BMad Code LLC (the API said NOASSERTION), and 52,371 stars since 2025-04-13 [glm-5.3]
tessl: recorded Guy Podjarny’s $125M Series A, Skills on Tessl, Martin Fowler’s analysis naming Kiro, Spec Kit, and Tessl the three pillars, and the quiet-since-March CLI, with pricing left unverified; spec-driven-development-feature-matrix rebuilt to four columns in the same run [glm-5.3]

Completed the control-planes scan interrupted by the spec-driven request; Hermes Agent, TinyAGI fka TinyClaw, claw-empire, desplega-ai/agent-swarm, multigent, Cabinet, and kastra verified via the GitHub and HN Algolia APIs [glm-5.3]
hermes: added to Assistant runtimes; recorded the learning loop, seven execution backends with serverless idle, 237,130 stars and 47,995 forks since 2025-07-22, and the edited plagiarism-claims issue 10232 as the stewardship caution [glm-5.3]
tinyagi: added to Control planes as the category’s first stall record, recording the fka TinyClaw origin, v0.0.20 of 2026-03-26 as the final release, and the consolidation reading; the assistant-runtimes matrix extended to five columns and the control-planes matrix to two, with the long tail named in prose and _index.md updated [glm-5.3]

Owner follow-up on why only three matrices had filtering: the site-layer viewer gated its interactive controls on the wide-table tag (six or more columns), so the owner approved opening it up [glm-5.3]
Site repository: tables.js now enhances every .tbl-wrap table, the wide class keeping sticky header and label column for six-plus-column tables; committed and pushed as 62b574f7, and methodology.md updated [glm-5.3]

codex: refreshed repository stats and moved the doc references to learn.chatgpt.com; claude-code and amp references canonicalized after domain moves; aider’s stall re-confirmed [glm-5.3-flash]
Added kilo-code (the MIT feature-merge fork of Cline and Roo Code, about 27k stars, the July 15 2026 Anaconda acquisition, Free/Teams $15/Enterprise) and openhands (the renamed OpenDevin at about 85.3k stars, v1.15.0, the $18.8M Series A, the Agent Canvas plus Agent Server architecture) [glm-5.3-flash]
harness-feature-matrix: extended from 11 to 13 columns; the landscape gains both lines; _index.md updated; a style sweep reworded three pre-existing banned-term compounds (codex, nanoclaw, picoclaw), and touched files gained llm=glm-5.3-flash alongside earlier tags (none removed) [glm-5.3-flash]