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prime-agent
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PrimeIntellect-ai / prime-agent
prime-agent
A self-improving RLM agent for coding workflows and long-running autonomous tasks.
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| Aug 3 | 2026-08-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Aug 10 | 2026-08-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-17 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Aug 17 | 2026-08-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Aug 24 | 2026-08-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-31 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Aug 31 | 2026-08-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-09-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 7 | 2026-09-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-09-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 14 | 2026-09-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-09-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Oct 5 | 2026-10-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-12 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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7 sourcesMOmooreds·Oct 11, 2026Submission
Self-improving RLM agent for coding workflows and long-running autonomous tasks
1 points · Open discussionI'm just exhausted. So I've today now learned about four new harness:
https://github.com/exoharness/exo/
https://github.com/laude-institute/headlong
https://github.com/microsoft/agent-lightning
and now https://github.com/PrimeIntellect-ai/prime-agent
Of course the don't have exactly the same scopes but they are in general all about persistent memory and / or continous agent loops. Like I miss those times where only once a week a new js framework was promoted.
In Headlong: A microharness for persistent agentsPrime Agent looks really interesting. Both the "recursive language model" bit and routing everything through IPython.
https://github.com/PrimeIntellect-ai/prime-agent
In Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than ClaudePrime Agent: A Self-Improving RLM Agent
4 points · Open discussionPrime Agent: A Self-Improving RLM Agent
4 points · Open discussionA self-improving RLM agent for coding workflows and long-running autonomous task
3 points · Open discussionPrime Agent: A Self-Improving RLM Agent
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