Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I’m Abhay, a student developer passionate about systems programming, distributed systems, and local AI. Over the past several months, I’ve been building Trans4mers as an open-source research project to explore what a desktop-native environment for local multi-agent systems looks like. ### Why I Built Trans4mers I wanted to work with multi-agent swarms on my local workstation without needing a browser-based SaaS or command-line scripts. I chose to build a native desktop application in Rust and Tauri v2 to keep the memory footprint modest (~78 MB idle RAM) and explore how classical systems engineering patterns apply to autonomous agents: - Visual Swarm Designer: A node-graph canvas to configure supervisor-worker, adversarial debate, and fan-out topologies. - Hardware-Bounded Concurrency: Tokio semaphores manage execution permits so multiple background workers don't cause thermal throttling or memory exhaustion on consumer hardware. - Event-Sourced SQLite WAL: Every domain event is written to an append-only log in an embedded SQLite database (trans4mers.sqlite) before state projections update tables, enabling state inspection and startup replay if interrupted. - Human-in-the-Loop Diff Gate: High-risk actions (modifying files outside scratch, executing shell scripts) produce an LCS line-level diff with SHA-256 argument verification, pausing execution for operator review. - 4-Tier Cognitive Memory: Combines working sliding context, episodic task history in SQLite, hybrid semantic search (LanceDB vectors + SQLite FTS5 BM25 fused with Reciprocal Rank Fusion), and procedural learned rules. - Local-First Inference: Runs directly against local Ollama daemons, with optional BYOK support for frontier models (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google) stored in OS credential vaults. ### Brutal Honesty & Current Project State - Solo Student Alpha: This is an early-stage alpha project built solo while studying. - Bugs Expected: Because it's actively evolving and hasn't been tested across thousands of hardware setups, there will be unhandled edge cases, UI quirks, and bugs. - Security Caution: While the capability system and diff reviewer exist in code, the application has NOT undergone third-party commercial security audits. Treat autonomous shell execution with caution and test in sandboxed or backed-up folders. The project is 100% open-source under MIT: 👉 GitHub: https://github.com/abhayzangir1/... 💖 Support a student builder: https://github.com/sponsors/abha... I would love your feedback, bug reports, and thoughts on the architecture!

Trans4mers

Open-source desktop multi-agent OS in Rust & SQLite (Alpha)

Open-source desktop multi-agent OS in Rust & SQLite (Alpha)