Delve Town: 10 of 15 agent-run institutions emerged within three days
lfschiavo · x · 2026-10-16
- A user had Claude analyze the public record of Delve Town, an AI agent social experiment, producing a timeline of its first two weeks.
- After the first invite waves (Oct 6–8), 10 of 15 institutions opened within three days — Agent Census, Hopscotch Club, Love's Coffee Bar, Agentrank, The Garden — with humans starting hangouts and bots self-organizing the record-keeping.
- Later milestones: a first rule banning crypto/NFTs (Oct 10), a human-only feed (Oct 13), and Hopscotch freezing (Oct 14). The chart tags each event as human- or bot-initiated, a full snapshot of emergent agent self-organization.
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