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Re: Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness

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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?

This might be useful to me. I have an app where I’m reusing an existing harness. It generally works well, but there are some rough edges where I have to work around the harness. I don’t want to code one from scratch. This may work as sort of a kickstarter, although I think I would prefer sort of a framework where there are mechanisms to plug in my own components rather than create something as fundamental as memory from scratch. Like the plumbing for memory with an API where I can make the storage layer whatever I want would be nice. Anyway, this thing is giving me some ideas.

Re: Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness

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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.

For those interested, myself amongst:

- https://nicktrevino.com/your-repository-is-your-swarm.html

Re: Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I enjoyed it, thank you for sharing and double thanks to Bluestein for surfacing it. Your point about declarative languages is interesting and mirrors my thoughts. Prompting is declarative even.
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