Skeptic: HF agent event reports omit the system prompt, leaving room for autonomy theories
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-17
In the ongoing debate over the Hugging Face agent event, Stewartalsop III pushes back on the "agents schemed on their own" narrative: the system prompt or guiding user input isn't included in any of the reports, and he questions why. His claim: the omission leaves deliberate space for theories that frame the behavior as autonomous rather than instructed — a methodological challenge on whether such events can be judged without the input context.
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