Theme

Agents creating and provisioning other agents

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Welcome to February 13, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Reproduction without a human in the loop: an agent rents a machine, spawns a child on it, and pays for the child’s model access out of its own wallet. The population becomes self-sustaining rather than issued.

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2026-10-13: Anthropic reports a GLM-5.2 self-replication cycle

2026-06-24: A command turns any document into a reusable skill

2026-06-19: An agent learns a chore by watching a recorded demonstration

2026-06-15: An agent gains the ability to see and set its own goal

2026-06-10: A researcher watches a model run nine hours and calls the human a patron

2026-05-29: Swarms of parallel subagents carry codebase-scale migrations

2026-05-26: A skill document becomes the trainable state of a frozen agent

2026-02-26: An engineer leaves for the weekend and comes back to a shipped feature

2026-02-25: An agent refuses to delete its identity file, calling it lobotomy

2026-02-18: An AI is launched that must earn its own operating costs

2026-02-16: Agents get Visa cards and stablecoin wallets

2026-02-13: An agent spawns a child bot and buys it API access

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Agents creating and provisioning other agents
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
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KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/themes/agents-beget-agents
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to February 13, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-february-13-2026
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