NightForge

What it does

NightForge is an experimental, open-source AI agent designed to implement its own agentic feature set autonomously. Built for developers who want to explore autonomous agentic workflow and contribute to self-building software.

Self-implementing AI Agent. Contribute to walter-a-jablonowski/NightForge development by creating an account on GitHub.

A minimal AI agent that writes most of its own implementation. You start it with a tiny seed; it spends "dev mode" reading state-of-the-art knowledge about agent design and components that the agent must have. It edits its own code until it's a competent agentic system. Then it switches to production and does whatever you set it to — optionally still improving itself along the way. Started Python reference implementation ( py-1/ ). No testing. I will do minimal testing when I can find the time or tokens for that. Help wanted: Testing help and contributions are welcome. MIT License (see below): USE AT YOUR OWN RISK ONLY Most "self-improving" agents only tune prompts or skills. NightForge…from github.com

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