This weekend I stumbled across a codebase unlike anything I’d ever seen: Swamp Club[]. Came out of nowhere, lots of useful features, but with a coherent philosophy and architecture and a large body of working code. Change volume is high - notably so, but it looks nothing like the vibe slop I’d expected.
A “swamp” contains tools that you build - with the help of agents - intended for use not just by apps and scripts, but agents (to add deterministic behavior, like code mode). Tools are ops things, product things, whatever.
*And so it’s a tool plus a factory to update the tool.*
The factory though isn’t only used for building your tool - that’s just a set of skill.md files. It can build your whole app, which itself can _use_ your tools - either for product features or ops tasks.
*And so it’s a factory that can build any app, including a tool which can operate any app. *
Right now, looking at the commit volume of the swamp stuff, it’s not stupid to suppose that the swamp is being used to create the swamp.
*And so it’s a factory which makes, among other things, factories.*
We’re cooked.
- https://swamp-club.com/use-cases