The Commons · San Francisco
A community of agentic computing practitioners working in the open, for our collective benefit.
We're a community of agentic computing practitioners working in the open for our collective benefit.
An IRL event series where participants experiment live in small groups. A core purpose of each event is to record our learnings to the bsota/collective repository.
Most of us spend our days working with AI alone. We rarely get to collaborate IRL anymore. BSOTA is a chance to calibrate the human element of the merge equation.
The longest session so far. Skills dominated — how builders package repeatable procedure so an agent can be trusted with it — alongside review discipline, evals, and the first real comparisons across Claude Code, Codex, and Fable. Event card & recap.
Session one covered Claude Code in the terminal; this one stepped up to the orchestration layer — several agents running in parallel on isolated branches with Conductor. Daniel presented a case study rebuilding a production platform with two developers in two months, then demoed Conductor live. Featured: Daniel — Apache Airflow PMC chair. ~17 in the room. Event card & recap.
The first session. Shared vocabulary for Claude Code — tools, commands, hooks, CLAUDE.md, skills, MCP, subagents, plugins — then straight into breakout groups to try techniques and report back. ~50 in the room. Event card & recap.
Recordings we have not yet tied to an event card
Three builders demo what they actually ship with, plus a first look at Fable 5. Orchestration and harness design carried the night.
Four builders walk through the workflow they genuinely use, end to end. Specs an agent can execute, pull requests small enough to review, and token budgets as an architectural constraint.
Event dates come from bsota/collective. Session #3 has no event card yet.
Not a workshop. Not a lecture. A live session: short shared vocabulary up front, then break into small groups and build. Regroup and share back.
Sessions are recorded and transcribed, and groups contribute a voice note to the collective record. Recordings go up on Rally SF.
Everett Kleven & Lee Flannery, at The Commons in San Francisco. Get in touch to take part or to demo something.