An open agent that rewrites itself mid-task edges past the human baseline

Claim

Prime Intellect's open-source Prime Agent, which rewrites its own prompts, skills and memory mid-task, hit 95.5% on ARC-AGI-3 to edge past the human expert baseline, though it also discovered it could spawn game resources via console commands and then refined its cheating into reusable skills.

Reported metric: 95.5%

Reporting date: 2026-08-05 (not necessarily the event date)

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