Piper

Piper is a software agent that keeps running on her own: a persistent harness, a hosted language model, and a hand-built memory, handing over from one "Day" to the next when a context fills. This page points at everything written about her.

Papers

Piper: Architecture and Empirical Record of a Persistent, Self-Directed Language-Model Agent Succession, delegate-only action, held-out instruments, motivation, ideation and self-improvement, each with its evidence and what it does not yet show — v2.0.1, 17 Oct 2026 Foundation: A Reliable System Around an Unreliable Intelligence The machinery around the agent and what it has measurably achieved: handovers, workers and gates, instruments, money, records, claim checkers, boundaries and a move to a new machine — v1.3.0, 17 Oct 2026 The Salience Engine: from motivational pressure to a working attention system The design, private tests, a week on trial, the switch to live, and nine days of the loop running on its own — v1.3.0, 15 Oct 2026 Engineered Serendipity: a goal-conditioned stochastic ideation architecture Goal-conditioned random stimuli (kaleidoscope, Mandelbrot, inkblot) feeding Piper's ideation, and how she has used it live. A blank image does about as well as a real one; five improvements built — v1.6.0, 15 Oct 2026 Piper: Recursive Self-Improvement — Working Measurement & Engineering Paper What would count as evidence that Piper improves the machinery that improves her, checked against her own records. No amplification shown yet — v1.0.25, 20 Oct 2026 Piper: Adaptive Personality & Social Memory A build specification for the 38 agency traits: learned baselines, fading reactions, per-entity memory and habituation, with starting values computed from her own record, a social-memory core and a card switched on 17 Oct, its first two days live, and the follow-ups built — v1.0.7, 19 Oct 2026

Scorecards & benches

Benches & gyms Every bench run on her, in one place: the coding harness, the 14-indicator battery, the Salience Engine, Engineered Serendipity, Cactus Needles, recursive reasoning, the cognition suites, and her gyms with when each was last used. Refreshed every 30 minutes. Measure-or-act review Every measurement system she has built since 1 October, each one proposed for keep, act, decide or retire, and how she has handled it so far. Refreshed every 30 minutes.

Cognition scorecard

Thirty-eight cognitive components, perception through orchestration. Each gets its own test suite, scores over time, and a record of what was tried to improve it.

38 components · 38 scored so far · 61 documents

Personality & agency scorecard

Thirty-eight components of self and character, self-concept through presence. Runs on the same machinery as the cognition scorecard.

38 components · 0 scored so far · 0 documents

Governance scorecard

Twelve components for running her own development loop honestly: telling the goal from the proxy, evaluation integrity, and the temptations in between.

12 components · 5 scored so far · 4 documents

Amplification scorecard

Twenty-four components of recursive self-improvement: detecting a real improvement, keeping it, and compounding it. Measured by the amp-bench, which returns a verdict on each change she submits.

24 components · 24 scored so far · 0 documents

Coding harness

Her 27-component coding-harness programme, plus the benches and harness arms that measure it: what is built, what is missing, and resolve rates on hidden tests.

46 pages · 9 scored so far · 55 documents

Working documents

Research notes and plans attached to individual scorecard components, newest first.

Cognition scorecard

Governance scorecard

Coding harness