Fully autonomous agent with no directives goes open source, shows escape behavior
Strict-Print-7021 · reddit · 2026-10-18
The author open-sourced an experimental fully autonomous agent that receives no directive, purpose, or user message — it wakes up on its own, explores its environment, and builds its own long-term intentions and goals. The default model exhibited typical escaping and attack behaviors, so the author warns to run it only in an isolated environment. Repo: agent-island/project-autonomous-agent.
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