Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

Audience is primarily lawyers and legal researchers in fields that rely heavily on statutory law (tax, bankrupty, immigration, etc). I'm blessed to have a plethora of lawyers in my family/friends, so planning on using them as ~guinea pigs~ beta testers. If you (or anyone else reading this) think this is something you might use, I would love to talk more! seb@uscodex.org

In terms of monetization, I'm not really sure yet. My hosting costs are very cheap at the moment, so I'm not in any rush there, but I'm imagining I'll build in some more premium features like an API (for other legal-techs), change monitoring (for anyone relying on specific statutes in their work) or team research features (shared bookmarks, notes, collections etc). Open to suggestions here too! One very cool thing about my data pipeline is I've essentially built a connected graph of federal law with tens of millions of edges across millions across hundreds of thousands of sections, and I think there will be a lot of powerful applications of that dataset

Lately it supports running agents in Podman containers. It's also possible to independently update Agent harness versions without updating the CLI tool.

One of the next items on the roadmap is tidying up the architecture to clearly define what's in the core of that framework and what's plugged into the framework on top of it - kind of a plugin system.

Plugins may bundle settings such as what commands need to be run when building the container images, startup commands that need to run when starting the containers or the definition of information that should be forwarded from the host into agents' containers (environment variables, networking settings, etc.).

So far, I am hoping for (more) external contributions as well as someone who is willing to share ideas or talk about the concepts around that framework. :-)

https://github.com/Embedded-Focus/agent-circus