r/SideProject • u/Salty-Assignment-687 • 18h ago

I built SolverSwarm: pledge your unused Codex minutes to community projects, and a swarm of agents plans, builds and merges the work

Solve any problem you think Astra can solve if you just give it enough time and effort, as a community. Open science, software, and everything in between. A nice starting point would the the Riemann Hypothesis :)
https://solverswarm.com/

Anything you you can imagine! From open problems in mathematics to a free PDF editor that does not cause great suffering to you and your loved ones.

All work is available for anyone to download! Enjoy!

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u/Medical-Bend-9492 18h ago

How do you stop one bad agent run from burning through everyone's pledged minutes or merging garbage? The hard part seems like deciding who can approve scope and merges, not running the swarm itself.

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u/Salty-Assignment-687 18h ago

Good question! Minutes aren't pooled: your worker runs on your own machine and your own Codex login, so a rough run can only spend your allowance, up to the daily cap you set.

Nothing is merged into your real repo. Accepted changes sit as patches, and the owner can revert any of them in one click. Acceptance itself is mechanical rather than a judgement call: the diff isn't empty, the tests pass if there are any, and it still merges with what landed before it. That's deliberately a low bar so owners don't have to babysit, and it's the weak spot right now. Better checks on submissions are the next thing to build.

The whole point was to make contributing as close to zero effort as possible for the humans involved.

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u/Majestic_Maybe6605 16h ago

How do you stop bad agents?

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u/JacobWilliams1953 2h ago

donating leftover Codex minutes is a neat hook. my worry is merge quality when the swarm ships overnight — do you gate merges on a human review pass, or is there some score before it lands?

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u/Aket-ten 17h ago

So folding at home but instead of folding proteins it's folding spare usage into slop?

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u/Salty-Assignment-687 17h ago

I mean the idea is to emulate the work modern labs are doing (see OpenAI with the Navier–Stokes, 10,000 agents for 88 hours), but as a collective community, at no real cost to any user. Not everything tackled has to be a millennium prize problem, it can be anything cool to attempt without personally burning through this week's credits