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Agent framework that generates its own topology and evolves at runtime

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Hi HN,I’m Vincent from Aden. We spent 4 years building ERP automation for construction (PO/invoice reconciliation). We had real enterprise customers but hit a technical wall: Chatbots aren't for real work. Accountants don't want to chat; they want the ledger reconciled while they sleep. They want services, not tools.Existing agent frameworks (LangChain, AutoGPT) failed in production - brittle, looping, and unable to handle messy data. General Computer Use (GCU) frameworks were even worse. My reflections:1. The "Toy App" Ceiling & GCU Trap Most frameworks assume synchronous sessions. If the tab closes, state is lost. You can't fit 2 weeks of asynchronous business state into an ephemeral chat session.The GCU hype (agents "looking" at screens) is skeuomorphic. It’s slow (screenshots), expensive (tokens), and fragile (UI changes = crash). It mimics human constraints rather than leveraging machine speed. Real automation should be headless.2. Inversion of Control: OODA > DAGs Traditional DAGs are deterministic; if a step fails, the program crashes. In the AI era, the Goal is the law, not the Code. We use an OODA loop to manage stochastic behavior:- Observe: Exceptions are observations (FileNotFound = new state), not crashes.- Orient: Adjust strategy based on Memory and - Traits.- Decide: Generate new code at runtime.- Act: Execute.The topology shouldn't be hardcoded; it should emerge from the task's entropy.3. Reliability: The "Synthetic" SLA You can't guarantee one inference ($k=1$) is correct, but you can guarantee a System of Inference ($k=n$) converges on correctness. Reliability is now a function of compute budget. By wrapping an 80% accurate model in a "Best-of-3" verification loop, we mathematically force the error rate down—trading Latency/Tokens for Certainty.4. Biology & Psychology in Code "Hard Logic" can't solve "Soft Problems." We map cognition to architectural primitives: Homeostasis: Solving "Perseveration" (infinite loops) via a "Stress" metric. If an action fails 3x, "neuroplasticity" drops, forcing a strategy shift. Traits: Personality as a constraint. "High Conscientiousness" increases verification; "High Risk" executes DROP TABLE without asking.For the industry, we need engineers interested in the intersection of biology, psychology, and distributed systems to help us move beyond brittle scripts. It'd be great to have you roasting my codes and sharing feedback.Repo: https://github.com/adenhq/hive

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Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Agent / copilot
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Commercial product

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Could you build this?

No Building an autonomous ERP reconciliation engine with dynamic runtime graph topology generation and deterministic financial execution requires deep accounting domain expertise and advanced formal verification.

What it would actually take: The architecture requires an orchestration runtime with dynamic DAG compilation, formal verification or AST-level validation for accounting rules, and audit-logging state machines. It needs robust integrations with complex ERP systems (SAP, NetSuite) and OCR/document extraction pipelines with strict tolerance for zero hallucination. This necessitates deep enterprise ERP engineering and specialized multi-agent systems research.

Discussion

20 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: LangChain, DAG-centric orchestration systems, OpenCode with plugin architecture, GCU-style UI automation tools

Concerns raised: Unsolicited email marketing to GitHub stargazers, Fraud accusations and scam claims, Astroturfing with fake accounts in comments, Correlated failure risk in k-of-n inference model, Cost runaway in reflection loops

Feature requests: Structured audit logging for credential access, Hard cost ceilings and confidence-based stopping criteria, Multi-agent coordination and resource contention handling, Event sourcing or compaction strategy for state persistence, Convergence guarantees documentation

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 1405 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #240 of 1406 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 104 days after the earliest competitor.

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