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REDDIT · REDDIT// 12d agoOPENSOURCE RELEASE
SRSWTI drops Shadows, distributed task framework
Shadows is a high-performance, Redis-based distributed background task framework designed to replace fragile cron-based scheduling in AI agent harnesses. It offers "at-least-once" delivery, fine-grained concurrency limits, and a unique "striking" feature for pausing specific task patterns without redeployment.
// ANALYSIS
Shadows is a direct response to the "unreliable" state of current AI agent scheduling, prioritizing deterministic systems over the "ai slop" rush.
- –Uses Redis Streams for reliability and at-least-once delivery, a significant step up from basic cron or heartbeat loops
- –"Striking" allows pausing tasks by argument (e.g., team_id) without a full restart, essential for production stability
- –Optimized for mixed hardware environments, routing heavy inference to high-spec nodes while keeping light tasks local
- –Same-machine task routing drops overhead from ~2500µs to ~5µs, enabling 20,000 tasks per second
- –MIT licensed and built for Python 3.12+, it positions itself as the "engineered" layer for autonomous agent infrastructure
// TAGS
shadowsllmagentopen-sourceinfrastructureredisdistributed-systems
DISCOVERED
12d ago
2026-03-30
PUBLISHED
12d ago
2026-03-30
RELEVANCE
8/ 10
AUTHOR
EmbarrassedAsk2887