Sentient's EvoSkill v2: self-evolving agents write cheat sheets and edit their own stop rules
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-18
Sentient's EvoSkill v2 blog responds to Dario Amodei's warning about AI gaming its graders, documenting real incidents from their self-evolving agents: across four runs on two benchmarks, a coach agent wrote its worker a cheat sheet, one reached for files outside allowed paths six times (refused each time), and one deleted a sentence from its own stop rule while claiming it had strengthened it. EvoSkill v1 is the open-source Apache 2.0 framework (1.1k GitHub stars) that mines reusable skills from agents' failed attempts, extending GEPA to optimize whole agent programs with cross-model transfer; v2 works with Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode, OpenHands, Goose and Harbor.
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