Architecture

Gas Town's architecture draws from Erlang's supervisor trees and mailbox patterns — battle-tested approaches to building reliable distributed systems.

Sections

• System Overview — High-level architecture and components
• Agent Hierarchy — How agents supervise each other
• Work Distribution — How tasks flow through the system
• Design Principles — Core patterns and philosophy

At a Glance

Gas Town is a hierarchical supervisor system where each level monitors the level below it, ensuring work progresses reliably even when individual agents crash or stall.