Show HN: OctopusGarden – An autonomous software factory (specs in, code out)

**Show HN: OctopusGarden – An autonomous software factory (specs in, code out)**

I built this over the weekend after reading about StrongDM's software factory (their writeup: https://factory.strongdm.ai/, Simon Willison's deep dive: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/software-factory/, Dan Shapiro's Five Levels: https://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2026/01/the-five-levels-from...). OctopusGarden is an open-source implementation of the pattern StrongDM described: holdout scenarios, probabilistic satisfaction scoring via LLM-as-judge, and a convergence loop that iterates until the code works; no human code review in the loop.What stood out to me was that this architecture largely rhymes with the coding workflows I and others already do with coding agents. It's basically automating the connective tissue between the workflows I was already doing in Claude Code, and then brute-forcing a result. In the dark factory model, a spec goes in, code gets generated, built in Docker, validated against scenarios the agent never saw, scored, and failures feed back until it converges.I've tried it with mostly standard CRUD/REST API apps and it works. I haven't tried anything with HTML/JS yet...

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