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Earlier sources: AI agents
AI agents use models to choose actions, call tools, and work toward a goal. This thread follows agent frameworks, memory, orchestration, evaluation, and safeguards; autonomy and reliability vary between systems.
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Earlier sources
Up to ten sources with readable evidence, ordered by their feed timestamp. These archive sources can be older than the live fourteen-day window. This list is a sample, not a measure of total activity. Dates distinguish paper publication, repository creation, model/dataset activity, Hacker News posts, and KEV catalog additions. “First archived” records when SYMTRI first stored the signal.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
The 85.B2 Challenge: Does This Earlier AI-Agent Map to Meta Muse ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- arXiv · Published · First archived
nanoMuse: An Open-Source Personal Agent for Every Device You Own ↗
Assistants from 2011 answered and waited, and agents from 2023 did a task and stopped. In September 2026 Meta's Muse showed an agent for one person, with accounts, devices, memory and a conversation that lasts, closed, in a vendor's cloud, in one country. Such an agent is expected to act on a person's accounts and devices, remember them across weeks, speak first when it is worth it, and answer for what it did. It is a kind of software, not a model, and until now had no open counterpart. This report defines the personal agent in five questions and three horizons. It reads how Muse is built from…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Semantic Behavioral Watermarking: Paraphrase-Robust and Forgery-Resistant Provenance for LLM Agents ↗
Behavioral watermarking embeds an owner identifier in an LLM agent's high-level action choices, giving provenance without touching output tokens. Prior agent watermarks break in two ways. First, all three prior schemes bind the watermark to the exact action symbol, so renaming a tool desynchronizes decoding even when the observation is untouched; in AgentMark's own robustness test, paraphrasing the observation alone drops bit-recovery to 16.8%. Second, every prior agent watermark studies only removal: none asks whether an adversary can forge a trajectory that verifies as someone else's, a ques…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
ParanoiaEval: Benchmarking Unnecessary Defensive Work in Agentic Coding ↗
As coding agents increasingly undertake real-world work autonomously, judging whether their risk treatments are warranted has become important. Existing work evaluates related agent behaviors from separate perspectives, but lacks a systematic framework for unifying these behaviors. To bridge this gap, we introduce ParanoiaEval, the first benchmark for unified evaluation of risk-treatment capabilities in coding agents. Grounded in the well-established Avoidance-Transfer-Mitigation-Acceptance framework in software engineering risk management, ParanoiaEval operationalizes its 4 fundamental treatm…
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
I gave an AI agent one bug 11 times. 6 commits had files it never knew about ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Agentic RCA for Internet-Scale Services Using Constrained Creativity ↗
System administrators of Internet-scale services need to resolve failure incidents to maintain reliability of such services. Ideally, we want a troubleshooting system to be: (1) expressive to known and unknown incidents with high accuracy; (2) cost efficient at scale; (3) explainable to provide actionable insights operators can act on; and (4) entail low effort from the operators. Unfortunately, most existing systems, including emerging LLM-assisted agentic workflows and structured frameworks for authoring diverse RCA algorithms fall short of achieving all four requirements. We present E4, a n…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Recursive Game Creator: An Agentic Product-Level Experience-Oriented Game Harness ↗
Recent game design agents have made substantial progress in generating playable games. However, program correctness does not ensure an enjoyable experience for players. We present Recursive Game Creator, an experience-oriented harness to advance agentic game development from rough game prototypes into entertaining games. Recursive Game Creator organizes recursive development around four components: Designer, Builder, Player, and Reviewer. The Designer translates user instructions and Reviewer's feedback into detailed plans. The Builder turns these plans into candidate games. The coding-native…
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Can an AI agent still act after the operator has stopped its authority? ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Show HN: AI Circuit Breaker – Reverse proxy to stop agent infinite loops ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic ↗
Hacker News discussion.
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