Gas City emerges as a reimagined successor to Gas Town, released in its first public version v1.0.0 this week. Developed by Julian Knutsen and Chris Sells, the SDK lets teams deploy autonomous agent topologies beyond the original hardwired shape. A drop‑in replacement, it ships a full Gas Town pack that imports existing rigs and beads.

Under the hood, Gas City decomposes the entire stack into declarative “packs,” each a composable unit that can be wired into arbitrary graphs. The system runs atop the MEOW framework, a Beads‑based work engine that stores tasks in a git‑versioned database called Dolt. This combination delivers fine‑grained model selection, cost control, and audit‑ready history for every agent.

Gas City’s lightweight API exposes a Factory Worker interface, allowing developers to embed custom agent logic directly into the orchestrator. The console, or even tmux, offers real‑time visibility into each worker’s state, message history, and persona. Unlike earlier iterations, the platform keeps every node observable, turning what some call a “dark factory” into a well‑lit, transparent environment.

Targeted at enterprise and hobbyists alike, Gas City ships MIT‑licensed and fully open source. With a growing Discord community of thousands, users can scale from simple devops tasks to complex business workflows, all while benefiting from versioned forensics and cost‑aware model switching. The release positions Gas City as the only viable, git‑backed orchestrator for autonomous agent ecosystems today.