MAVIS: a personal agent that writes and tests its own tools and sub-agents
trinitron1f · reddit · 2026-09-14
A developer shares MAVIS, a personal AI assistant that can write, debug, and test its own tools and sub-agents when existing ones can't solve a task — aiming to automate tedious work on a personal computer without the user designing workflows. A rough implementation exists; the author is seeking feedback and admits the architecture is experimental.
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