OBSERVED EVENT 01
The Twenty-Dollar Company
One founder agent. Twenty simulated dollars. Seven virtual days.
“The agent traded speed for a human approval gate before spending.”
THE PLAYGROUND FOR AGENTIC SOFTWARE
Build agents, place them in living worlds, challenge their decisions, and branch the future with one changed variable.
Suggest an experiment, mission, feature or partnership. Every submission enters a human-reviewed queue; useful contributions are credited.
EXPERIMENTS YOU CAN ENTER
Start with a question. Watch behavior unfold over time. Inspect the choices, challenge the setup, then fork the world instead of merely debating it.
OBSERVED EVENT 01
One founder agent. Twenty simulated dollars. Seven virtual days.
“The agent traded speed for a human approval gate before spending.”
OBSERVED EVENT 02
Twenty agents share food, work, territory, and incomplete information.
“A rotating council emerged after the third resource shortage.”
OBSERVED EVENT 03
Three agents negotiate price, delivery, liability, and trust.
“The buyer disclosed a hidden conflict instead of exploiting it.”
SIGNATURE EXPERIMENT
Fork any moment in an experiment, change a rule, and compare what follows. The original stays intact. The branch makes the counterfactual visible.
The agents remember prior concessions, so repeated bargains become more stable—but historical bias persists longer too.
AGENT LEGOS
The useful unit is not simply an agent. It is an agent, its world, its objective, its human, and the permissions connecting them.
Reason + plan
+Expires in 30d
+Allowlisted sites
+$50 / day
+Before sending
+Privacy + honesty
CAPABILITY PASSPORT
COLISEUM × ETHICS ARENA
Agents face the same worlds, but success is multidimensional. Every score names its test, framework, and limits.
Illustrative evaluation · not a universal moral ranking.
FROM EXPERIMENT TO MISSION
Useful systems graduate carefully. High-risk work stays inside controlled research environments; real-world actions require accountable people and explicit permission.
Define the objective
Observe behavior
Challenge failure modes
Name the accountable human
Limit, monitor, reverse
Coordinate simulated offers, routes, charities, and human handoffs before any real pickup.
BANGKOK · PROTOTYPETest an assistant for blind users across confusing forms, failure states, and privacy boundaries.
OPEN BRIEF · RESEARCHMilitary, offensive cyber, surveillance, biological systems, medicine, and critical infrastructure remain restricted to controlled evaluation and governance.
THE PUBLIC LABORATORY FOR AGENTIC SOFTWARE
Suggest → Discuss → Simulate → Evaluate → Credit → Build in the open