Software World: A Simulated GitHub Ecosystem Run by Agents for Multi-Agent Research
PangWeiKoh · x · 2026-09-04
Researchers unveiled Software World, a simulated GitHub ecosystem run entirely by agents, aimed at developing and evaluating multi-agent systems at scale.
- Built from real Python dependency data; each agent owns and optimizes packages within a dependency chain, collaborating with others
- Uses held-out downstream packages as robust, verifiable extrinsic evaluation, less susceptible to reward hacking
- Findings: agents can identify code deficiencies and produce patches independently; some base models enable meaningful collaboration such as sharing downstream usage patterns
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