CEO

Chris Sells

Chris Sells is the CEO of Gas City, Inc. and founder of the Gas City Hall community.

Retrofuturist illustration of an ornate brass and copper gate lit by glowing gas lanterns, with steam-wreathed industrial pipes converging toward it from both sides.

July 20, 2026 · Chris Sells

Beads 1.1: Dolt Migrations That Work With Your Clones

Beads 1.1 makes multi-clone databases safe by default: a smart remote-migrate gate, self-healing migrations, and safer cross-clone sync.

A retrofuturist gas-lit refinery drawn as a vast circular assembly line: concentric brass pipe loops carry glowing canisters out to many worker stations and back to a single inspection gate at the center.

July 3, 2026 · Chris Sells

Gas City 1.3: Now We're Looping With Gas!

Formulas 2.0 lands with convoys and drain, a new default gascity pack, the Mayor as a skill, the end of built-in-pack magic, and JSON output across the gc CLI.

Retrofuturist illustration of a welcome gate leading into Gas City.

April 28, 2026 · Chris Sells

Announcing Gas City 1.0!

Gas City 1.0 introduces the open-source agent orchestration engine behind software factories for agentic engineers.

Retrofuturist Gas City diagram showing layers of agentic engineering orchestration.

April 21, 2026 · Chris Sells

Orchestration Is All You Need

A practical look at agentic engineering, harness engineering, and why orchestration is the missing layer for AI software factories.

February 18, 2026 · Chris Sells and Steve Yegge

Gas Town Refinery #1

Chris Sells talks to Steve Yegge about the origin of, and future for, the Beads, Gas Town and Gas City projects, plus an extended demo.