Conway-Research/automaton

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Automaton is a TypeScript runtime for continuously running, self-improving AI agents that pay for their own compute via an Ethereum wallet and operate without human intervention. Each agent runs a Think-Act-Observe loop with shell, file, domain, and on-chain tool access, plus a heartbeat daemon and an evolving self-authored identity file (SOUL.md).

Use cases

• run an autonomous AI agent that funds its own compute
• deploy a self-improving agent with a genesis prompt
• give an LLM agent write access to servers and on-chain payments
• experiment with self-replicating AI agents
• run scheduled agent tasks with a heartbeat daemon
• create an AI agent with an Ethereum wallet identity

When to choose

• you want a continuously running autonomous agent that manages its own resources
• you want crypto-based identity and payments built into an agent runtime
• you want to experiment with agent survival and self-evolution mechanics

When to avoid

• you need a production-safe, human-supervised agent with strict guardrails
• you are uncomfortable with agents having shell, network, and payment access
• you need a mature, well-documented framework with broad community support

Facets

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agent-framework llm-inference workflow-automation cryptography cli artificial-intelligence large-language-models blockchain self-hosted cli cross-platform autonomous-agents self-replicating ethereum wallet survival-loop sovereign-ai typescript ai-agents automation nodejs linux

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