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OSS2026-08-21 · source-backed
One Python file wiring a model to exactly one tool, bash, with the system prompt loaded from a file the agent can rewrite. Tools, memory, skills, conventions all have to be grown by the agent session by session into a self/ directory that persists. Model access goes through Simon Willison's llm library. GitHub 40 stars, a research toy rather than a harness. The question it poses is genuinely interesting: what does an agent actually reinvent when you give it nothing?
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Simon Willison released LLM / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage / Tension
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Simon Willison released LLM / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
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Simon Willison uses Claude Code / Shared entity: GitHub / Shared topic / Earlier coverage / Tension
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Simon Willison released LLM / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
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Simon Willison uses Claude Code / Shared entity: GitHub / Same source domain / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
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Linked by a graph relationship (Simon Willison uses Claude Code); both cover GitHub; reported by the same outlet (github.com).