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symphony

Symphony turns project work into isolated, autonomous implementation runs, allowing teams to manage work instead of supervising coding agents.

15Distinct people
16Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
28KGitHub stars
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What it is

Symphony turns project work into isolated, autonomous implementation runs, allowing teams to manage work instead of supervising coding agents.

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

I love the idea of using a shared event log for coordination. Smart! I have a Symphony-style[1] factory, which keeps all the context in a single session, but I want to start…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 7:24:48 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week16 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-03-04 18:50:39 UTC to 2026-07-23 16:11:42 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

02468102026-03-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 7 submissions, 2 commentsMar 22026-03-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2026-03-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-04-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMay 112026-05-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-05-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-06-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 20

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Mar 22026-03-02 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-09 00:00:00 UTC972
Mar 92026-03-09 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-16 00:00:00 UTC211
Mar 162026-03-16 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC000
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Apr 62026-04-06 00:00:00 UTC2026-04-13 00:00:00 UTC101
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Jul 202026-07-20 00:00:00 UTC2026-07-27 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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It was the BEAM process/actor model that fit much better for managing agents, and then there was the out-of-the-box live UI with Phoenix/LiveView that was really appealing. I had started the project in Typescript/Node (because that's my company's primary stack choice), but it hit a plateau in reliably managing multiple independent long-lived agent processes (not really what Node is designed for). I could have used an even more boring tech like Go with more robust process management, but Elixir and Phoenix also came with a lot out of the box. It's no surprise that OpenAI's reference project for agent orchestration (https://github.com/openai/symphony) is also written in Elixir.
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