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Seed: Minimal agent harness starts from one loop and grows its own tools through self-modification
Seed is a minimal agent framework consisting of a single Python file (seed.py) that connects a language model to one bash execution tool, requiring the agent to grow its own tools, memory, and skills by rewriting its system prompt and writing to its self/ directory.
Seed inverts the typical agent framework pattern by providing no built-in tools, memory, or skills, instead forcing the agent to construct its own capabilities through self-modification. Each directory planted creates a divergent agent with its own history, making agent development an emergent rather than prescribed process.
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Seed consists of seed.py connecting a language model to one exec tool (bash), with no framework-provided tools, memory, or skills.
The agent owns and may rewrite its system prompt file, and must persist everything it wants to keep in its self/ directory since sessions are ephemeral.
Each directory planted creates a separate agent individual that diverges based on experiences, with session transcripts recorded to self/sessions/*.json but never loaded as memory.
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