Show HN: SpiderMonkey – System 1 for Code Agents

Category: ai-ml

Tags: coding-agents, system-monitoring, llm, attention-steering, research-prototype

Score: 6.0/10 (Innovation: 8, Technical: 6, Documentation: 6, Utility: 4)

SpiderMonkey is a research prototype that adds a 'System 1' attention mechanism to coding agents by continuously sampling machine state (processes, ports, logs) and using a small LLM to decide what the agent should notice. It demonstrates measurable gains (e.g., faster detection of hung commands) and is cheap to run, but is explicitly not production-ready.

Target audience: AI researchers, agent framework developers, backend engineers exploring LLM-driven automation

Repository: https://github.com/jayhack/spidermonkey · TypeScript · 2 stars

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