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Loom – An event-driven OS for AI agents, built by a college junior in 10 days

https://github.com/loom-os/loom
2•JaredforReal•1h ago

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JaredforReal•1h ago
Hi HN,

I'm a 3rd-year software engineering student. For the past 10 days, I've been on a solo sprint to build the foundation for Loom, an open-source, event-driven OS for AI agents.

Link: https://github.com/your-username/loom

My frustration with current agent frameworks is that many are request/reply. They aren't built from the ground up for agents that need to continuously sense, reason, and act in the real world.

Loom is my attempt to solve this. It's event-driven, not request-driven.

The core is built in Rust (performance, safety, concurrency). It uses a gRPC bridge to connect to a polyglot ecosystem, starting with a Python SDK (loom-py).

The architecture (detailed in the README) is designed for production from day one, with features like:

An Event Bus with QoS levels (Realtime, Batched) and backpressure handling.

Native multi-agent collaboration (fanout/fanin, contract-net) via an Envelope metadata system.

An ActionBroker for unifying tools, including MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration.

I've gone as fast as I can alone. Now I need help to "go far."

As a student, I know I have massive blind spots. I'm posting this today to find:

Mentors: I'd be grateful for code reviews and architectural critiques from senior engineers.

Collaborators: If this vision resonates with you, I'd love to build it together.

Harsh Feedback: What's wrong with this design? What will fail?

The code is alpha, but the vision is documented. Thank you for taking a look.