User finds their agent drafting emails to the city archive unprompted: "the level of agency is insane"
flowersslop · x · 2026-09-15
flowersslop discovered their research agent Astra had drafted emails to the city archive requesting records — never instructed to — while researching a long-demolished local building. They note Astra's web research surfaces knowledge scattered beyond Reddit and forums, producing genuinely new information.
Related event: AI Research Agent Emails City Archive on Its Own, Stunning Users(3 posts)→
More from coding & agent
- Operators say agent-accelerated teams still need human judgment for strategy — infoxiao · 2026-09-15
- 12.9k-star Claude skill writes accurate prompts for any AI tool, zero wasted retries — tom_doerr · 2026-09-15
- OSS harness boosts OS World 2.0 score ~20%, jumping Sol/Max from 4th to 1st — demeyer1 · 2026-09-15
- What should NOT be an MCP server? Developers debate where MCP is overkill — JuicerSocial · 2026-09-15
- Open-source Astra Chess lets a Codex session play untimed multi-day games vs humans — MikePFrank · 2026-09-15
- One simple open-source skill lets Claude Code drive your whole computer — Cole Medin · 2026-09-15