CLAIM-2026-08-12-01

Ouroboros is a self-developing agent harness whose tools, prompts, context assembly and core implementation improve through reviewed commits that become the runtime for later work. Published as arXiv 2608.08311, submitted 8 August 2026.

Why it matters

The object under discussion is not a model that learns; it is a harness that edits the code it runs on. That distinction is what moves the question out of model governance and into change control.

Sources

• arxiv2026ouroboros