house of agents

Inspiration

Staying at a hacker house is energizing: every resident brings a unique skill set, side-project, and late-night idea. We wanted that creativity on demand, even when everyone is asleep or busy. “House of Agents” re-creates that atmosphere by giving you a panel of AI agents, each modeled after real hacker-house archetypes— the infrastructure wiz, the storytelling founder, the growth hacker, the security guru— so you can brainstorm, debug, or spar on strategy any time.

What it does

You open a chat room and invite one or more agents. They discuss the prompt among themselves, surface diverse viewpoints, then present a concise consensus (or a respectful disagreement) back to you. You can: • Brainstorm product features with a “founder” + “designer” + “PM” trio. • Pair-debug code with the “infra wiz” while the “security guru” flags risks. • Role-play investor Q&A, letting the “VC partner” grill the “founder” agent while you observe. Everything stays in one threaded conversation, and you can pause, mute, or swap agents on the fly.

How we built it • All in spring.new

Challenges we ran into • Balancing voice vs. verbosity: Early versions felt like a noisy Zoom call. We tweaked turn-taking heuristics and added a moderator agent. • Token budget: Multi-agent chats explode context size. We built a lightweight summarizer that prunes redundant agent chatter in real time. • Persona drift: Agents kept “forgetting” their specialties after long sessions. We fixed this with periodic self-reflection prompts anchored in system messages.

Accomplishments that we’re proud of • Hit <1 s average first-token latency despite juggling four concurrent agents. • Demoed a live “founder vs. VC” negotiation; the audience couldn’t tell the human apart. • Open-sourced the persona fine-tuning pipeline so others can create their own house.

What we learned

Building multi-agent systems is less about fancy models and more about conversation governance: who speaks, when, and for how long. Clear rules beat bigger weights. We also saw how giving agents distinct memories sparks surprisingly coherent back-and-forth.

What’s next for House of Agents

If you’ve ever wished your favorite hacker house never slept, come hang out in the House of Agents.

Built With

• spring.new