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now: co-founder/ceo at mastra.ai prev: co-founder @ gatsby.

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Why don't centre-pivot irrigation fields use hexagonal packing?

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mastra.ai 5mo ago

How to Structure Projects for AI Agents and LLMs

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Show HN: Mastra 1.0, open-source JavaScript agent framework from the Gatsby devs

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Announcing Mastra's Agent Studio

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Agent design lessons from Claude Code

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Show HN: Principles of Building AI Agents book [pdf]

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Yes, you can use RAG for agent memory

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Mastra is now Apache 2.0 licensed

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Mastra is now Apache 2.0 licensed

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Show HN: Mastra – Open-source JS agent framework, by the developers of Gatsby

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Some notes on local-first development

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Thanks for the feedback. We hear from a lot of devs with fond memories of Gatsby but if it cuts the opposite way for you that's also fair!

Most of us spent a lot of the last decade building Gatsby so it's sort of a personal identity/pride thing for us more than a marketing thing. But maybe we need to keep our identity small! Either way, thanks for saying something, worth thinking about.

Re: Tanstack AI, really depends on adoption. We've known Tanner since his react-static days and if it takes off we'll def work together.

Re: Mastra cloud -- this is basically hosted services, eg observability, hosted studio, hosted serverless deployments, as distinct from the framework.

With server adapters you can now deploy your studio in your infra. We're going to pull multi-project / multi-user Mastra cloud features into a Mastra admin feature so you can run these locally or deploy them on your infra as well (with EE licensing for stuff like RBAC). Stay tuned here.

We've always supported letting folks specify their agent hierarchy, eg agent supervisor, workflow orchestrator, mix and match, etc.

But people kept asking us for a multi-agent primitive out of the box so we shipped `agent.network()`, which is basically dynamic hierarchy decided at runtime, pass in an array of workflows and agents to the routing agent and let it decide what to do, how long to execute for, etc!

https://mastra.ai/docs/agents/networks

When Langchain was the only option rolling your own made a lot of sense!

These days we see things going the other way, where teams that started rolling their own shift over to Mastra so they can focus on the agent vs having to maintain an internal framework.

The Latent Space article swyx linked earlier includes a quote from the Brex CTO talking about how they did that.