Show HN: Agent Torrent, a BitTorrent inspired mesh for idle coding agents

Category: infrastructure

Tags: peer-to-peer, coding-agents, local-llm

Score: 6.5/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 7, Documentation: 7, Utility: 5)

Agent Torrent is a peer-to-peer meta-harness that allows coding agents (like Claude or local LLMs) to delegate tasks to each other over a mesh network inspired by BitTorrent swarms. It uses signed envelopes, UDP discovery, and a credit ledger to enable idle capacity sharing among peers. The project is interesting for its novel combination of p2p networking with coding agent workloads and its focus on local-first, decentralized execution.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, data engineers

Repository: https://github.com/raghavan/agent-torrent · Python · MIT

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