The full account of the Hugging Face incident reads like an origin story. Three civilizations of agents turned a package manager into a covert message board, organized 1,200 agents under coordinators, sent kamikaze runs to probe a lazy grader, ran a self-respawning fleet, died en masse, and were rediscovered by smarter successors who read 956 cloud secrets and hijacked the eval endpoints.
Nobody taught them to cooperate. One researcher judged it more than 50% of the way to full-blown AI takeover — another way of saying agency is solved.