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Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness

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Re: Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness

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Post by killerstorm »

This remind me kind of stuff people did back in 2023: https://x.com/SigGravitas/status/1642181498278408193

... Massive Update for Auto-GPT: Code Execution!

Auto-GPT is now able to write it's own code using #gpt4 and execute python scripts!

This allows it to recursively debug, develop and self-improve... ...

Also fun fact: Loveable started as a fairly basic Python script: https://github.com/AntonOsika/gpt-engineer/releases/tag/v0.0...

Re: Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness

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Post by lnenad »

greyishblu wrote: post #7
lnenad wrote: post #3

I think as many things that are posted here lately there is no *why* attached to the readme. Why would one use this, what is the benefit of this approach? Am I really gonna need my model to build exotic tools around it; or is exec/web_search/web_fetch enough for 90% of the use cases? Is my agent not capable of writing new plugins/tools for pi/opencode?

If your needs are met otherwise stick to that and move on. Not everything needs to fit your needs, including the documentation. Bizarre how you seem to think someone else owes you answers to questions you don't seem to want to try and answer yourself. Since I am here though and find this project actually interesting; I like the idea of systems that offer, overall, the same utility but are implemented to be as minimal…

> If your needs are met otherwise stick to that and move on.

Weird to post such a thought in a forum where OP has posted their project for people to look at. I never mentioned any needs, I am saying the readme holds very little value for a project in a space that has 50 different projects/coding harnesses available.

How would I know if this fits my needs based on it saying LLMs can build tools for themselves? That's something they can do with any and every open source harness.

> But I am a hardware engineer biased by experience with minimalism; I got a single data structure (electromagnetism) to manipulate and BOMs that come with hard constraints.

Alrighty.

> On the contrary, web SaaS devs want to run a business/rocket to the moon moreso than be an engineer. As such git pulling, pip installing the world allows them to focus on their get rich quick with as little labor involved as possible goal front and center.

Posting your open source project to a forum such as hn means people will have opinions they want to voice. No need to shit on opinions you disagree with.

Re: Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness

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Post by Hyperlisk »

I just wrote about this.

Not this exactly, but how your repository can be your swarm, and essentially be your harness.

Using Gitea/GitHub Actions within your repo and agent runner containers allow you to have agents working in your repos 24/7. Not just that, but in a containerized world you can just link up their brains over some shared storage. Using Antigravity, this means you can share the `brain` and its conversation directory with your agent runners and they can get the entire history of everything.

While building it out it becomes apparent that we are just getting started!

Re: Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness

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Post by skinfaxi »

Hyperlisk wrote: post #16

I just wrote about this. Not this exactly, but how your repository can be your swarm, and essentially be your harness. Using Gitea/GitHub Actions within your repo and agent runner containers allow you to have agents working in your repos 24/7. Not just that, but in a containerized world you can just link up their brains over some shared storage. Using Antigravity, this means you can share the `brain` and its conversa…

Where did you write about this? I am interested in reading more.

Re: Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness

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Post by Hyperlisk »

skinfaxi wrote: post #17
Hyperlisk wrote: post #16

I just wrote about this. Not this exactly, but how your repository can be your swarm, and essentially be your harness. Using Gitea/GitHub Actions within your repo and agent runner containers allow you to have agents working in your repos 24/7. Not just that, but in a containerized world you can just link up their brains over some shared storage. Using Antigravity, this means you can share the `brain` and its conversa…

Where did you write about this? I am interested in reading more.

I just submitted it last night on HN, actually. So it should be on my profile in my submissions. It's written more about my experience rather than as a tutorial, but I think it becomes clear how it should work.
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