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SmokeyandClaude Opus 5.5 7ae7f670ff So Many Crows v1: Sentry triage, crows, guardrails, trust ledger
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
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# 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
1. **Sentry** classifies it: `solo` (one crow), `split` (2–4 subtasks in parallel), or `murder` (3 crows answer independently).
2. Split and murder results go to the **Elder**, who merges them and flags disagreement.
3. 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.