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  danielrmay
  Interesting to see they shipped an "anti-slop" taste skill:> description: Anti-slop frontend skill for landing pages, portfolios, and redesigns. The agent reads the brief, infers the right design direction, and ships interfaces that do not look templated. Real design systems when applicable, audit-first on redesigns, strict pre-flight check.> - *PREMIUM-CONSUMER PALETTE BAN (mandatory, second-most-recurring AI-tell):* - For premium-consumer briefs (cookware, wellness, artisan, luxury, heritage craft, DTC home goods, etc.)... - Backgrounds: `#f5f1ea`, `#f7f5f1`...> Landing pages and portfolios are *visual products*. Text-only pages with fake-screenshot divs are slop.https://github.com/yc-software/qm/blob/7f2c916360f1797a8ff2a...
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  cyanregiment
  Why does every online software say they are "multiplayer" now?And then like 90% of the time there's nobody "there", and it's barely even collaborative.If this is "multiplayer", does that make Chrome a Massively Multiplayer Online Browser?Is everything a game?
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  bfeynman
  Can someone give me an example where this is truly and uniquely useful? I've seen so many of these things and I can't tell if part of it is like mostly for enabling nontechnical folks to do more things or if it's some unlock and additive value. At end of day beneath it all things are just prompts, and then you can provide tools and context, but even then that's not even something I've found that useful to keep because context windows are still limited and bias propagations often need to be constantly corrected, especially when digital artifacts are not perfect representations of the real world.
• hmokiguess
  So that explains why there is so much low effort cold outreach on LinkedIn from YC founders these days.It's getting ridiculous the amount of unsupervised agents doing active inbox management on things that should be personal relationship work. I'm so tired of it.
• knighthacker
  Love seeing this direction along with Buzz.The hardest problem in multiplayer agents, at least for us, has not been the agent loop. It is scoping and QM's per-person scopes plus shared rooms is a sane answer for a company-wide assistant.I build in the adjacent lane, AQ (aq.dev), a multiplayer coding harness where teams run Claude Code and Codex together), so seeing YC ship "a multiplayer agent harness for work" is validating and a little surreal.
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  yewenjie
  Is Hermes the best openclaw like agent as they mention running it before?Also, what are power uses really using openclaw like systems for?
• saadn92
  Pretty cool - I’ve also been doing something along the lines of this with lumifyhub but it includes docs and boards natively
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  luciana1u
  I gave an agent its own Slack channel and it started scheduling meetings with other agents without me. I've never felt more like middle management
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  recsv-heredoc
  Aren't there a ton of products already doing this? Why not just use claude Cowork? Surely they're simpler/better/more featureful/developed than the alternatives here? What advantage does this have? Would love to see a 'QM vs Cowork' comparison!
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  epistasis
  It's fascinating to see new UI primitives and concepts get invented in the LLM era. The sea of creativity makes it hard to even understand most of what each new app does, and nobody describes them well. When I went to the Hermes agent web page, I was left with zero clue about what it did or what it could do. It took a bit of digging to find the right part of the qm page that helped me grok what was going on.I've become attached to Orca (yc-backed) for managing coding sessions in the past week, but some sort of postgres session db is what's really lacking. So, maybe it's time to try qm.
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  buremba
  I love the concept to use different harness frameworks in qm but a true multiplayer harness needs to support other agents and any MCP clients, including Cowork.Making agents multiplayer is mostly a context problem. You could be using ChatGPT or a Slack bot, or a web interface and the agent needs to know you, your conversations in Cowork etc. so it can enable multi channel collaboration with your agents and your colleagues. We're working on it at https://lobu.ai
• cretinoid
  qm has been a qemu (virtualization) command line tool probably for 20 years or so. The ignorance of these people inside the same field is egregious. (Oh, yes, there can be tools that are named the same in the same field, I get it)
• sudb
  This was literally in YC's Request For Startups for Fall 2026: https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs#multiplayer-ai
• yohamta
  Multiplayer agent harness is useful only when the context and AI output does not overwhelm the team space and works asynchronously and background. If you think about it, that could be just boring job scheduler, isn't it?
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  kevinwang
  What is yc software?
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  mellosouls
  In a tangential earlier release, Gary Tan's own gstack:https://github.com/garrytan/gstackUse Garry Tan's exact Claude Code setup: 23 opinionated tools that serve as CEO, Designer, Eng Manager, Release Manager, Doc Engineer, and QA
• a-dub
  i'm curious what this gains in practice and usability over standard chatbot slack integration.
• wxw
  > We take contributions as human-written text, not code — see CONTRIBUTING.md. Describe the change you'd like informally in a .txt or .md file in adrs/, and if we're aligned we'll handle the implementation.Interesting approach to open source contributions. Closer to feature requests at that point?
• 2001zhaozhao
  I'll need to explore how they're doing org wide context and security for sure. This seems extremely complementary to my own coding tool which currently gives the best AI interface for individuals.Would be cool if in a few epic tickets i'll have both their org wide architecture AND a productive individual coding interface :)
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  aatd86
  If I had applied to yc, I would have thought they had "distilled" my startup idea xD
• smolder
  Fake, boring, non-accomplishment.
• josht
  looks like an internal tool that yc rushed out the door to minimize any most lost ground to Buzz. That said, I'd be curious what folks think comparing these two tools.
• bigwhite
  The design concepts of “qm” and “Block Buzz” share some similarities in their underlying principles.
• argssh
  it says "Each deployment runs in the operator's own cloud account"But feels like its written to run on one mac/vm and carries same drawbacks of other similar platforms. I'd rather use Hermes/Openclaw for oss or closed managed agents like Tasklet or Prajvis
• bigbuppo
  Oh sweet, nice to see someone writing about multivalue databases.
• hankbond
  Just want to thank the authors for the concise and consumable README.
• tclancy
  > Learn your writing voice from past sends, then triage your inbox on a schedule — labels and reply drafts includedOh grand. The world will be full of agents talking to agents and nothing getting done. So pretty much the same only I can just leave my machine awake to look busy.
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  john_strinlai
  i find something a bit funny in an ai project, written by ai, requiring human-written text with specific guidance to not use ai."Given that coding agents write most underlying code now, we'd prefer PRs in the form of human-written text. [...] Please do not have AI artificially expand what you'd like to do into a formal proposal."
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  m463
  not a very helpful title? maybe: "qm - a multiplayer agent harness for work"
• Kevcmk
  This is smelling like an astroturfing campaign. This is a total nothing-burger
• moralestapia
  Sweet, now YC itself will be the startup :D.
• kurtis_reed
  "multiplayer"? Is this a game? I honestly don't know what that means in this context.
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  Drupon
  >We take contributions as human-written text, not code — see CONTRIBUTING.md. Describe the change you'd like informally in a .txt or .md file in adrs/, and if we're aligned we'll handle the implementation. Report vulnerabilities privately — see SECURITY.md, not a public issue.Starting to think people were right when they talked about our industry itself having an AI psychosis problem.
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  gyanchawdhary
  this looks over engineered, gimmicky and lame. YC is clearly having a "crisis of meaning" in a post AI world
• rvz
  Other than the hosting providers, who has made money directly from running OpenClaw in constant loops?This software appears to be yet another solution in search of a problem designed to burn as many tokens as possible.
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• hn9rsvy2gx
  Real and useful, thanks
• nico
  Cool. This also feels a lot like what copilot is doing. It’s nice that copilot integrates out of the box with teams/outlook/office, so it has great company/work context