SmokeyandClaude Opus 5.5
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Go command-line tool. Sentry classifies each todo item as solo, split, or murder; text-only crows fly under budget, timeout, and flock caps; trust is earned per crow and per task type; abusive requesters get a mild, fading cooldown. Runs offline with a mock brain. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UQnSw4RRWp8uqpj3nsnnXF
So Many Crows
A flock of AI agents. Hand it a todo list; a Sentry crow triages each item, crows fly, and trust is earned over time.
Version one: command-line, text-only crows. No web, files, or APIs until each has guardrails.
Run
go build -o crows .
./crows run todo.txt # offline mock brain (no key needed)
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=... ./crows run todo.txt # real crows (Claude)
./crows trust # trust ledger
./crows log -n 20 # flight log
Optional: CROWS_MODEL overrides the model. Results land in todo.crows.md; state lives in .crows/.
How an item flies
- Sentry classifies it:
solo(one crow),split(2–4 subtasks in parallel), ormurder(3 crows answer independently). - Split and murder results go to the Elder, who merges them and flags disagreement.
- You approve or reject, depending on trust.
Trust ladder
| Level | Triage | Output |
|---|---|---|
| Stranger | you approve | you approve |
| Regular | you approve | auto-accepted, marked unreviewed |
| Trusted | runs on its own | runs on its own |
- Promotion: 10 clean approvals in a row (the flock as a whole needs 20).
- Demotion: one rejection drops a level.
- A crow's level blends its own record with the flock's record for that task type, so new crows start on the flock's reputation.
- The Sentry earns triage trust separately, per task type.
- The least-trusted crow on a job sets the approval bar.
Guardrails (guardrails.go)
| Guardrail | Default |
|---|---|
| Crows in flight | 5 |
| Murder size | 3 |
| Items per list | 20 |
| Subtasks per split (depth 1, never re-split) | 4 |
| Tokens per item / per list | 20,000 / 100,000 |
| Crow timeout | 60s |
| Requests per minute per requester | 5 |
| Cooldown | 30s, doubling per strike, max 1h |
Fail-safe: any answer other than y, including no input, is a no.
Abuse
Flooding the flock earns a mild prank message and a cooldown. Strikes fade one per clean day. Nothing destructive, nothing public.