CLAIM-2026-08-12-04

Hope is the longest-running publicly documented Ouroboros deployment: a 161-day living agent experiment in free evolution under governed human communication across seven surfaces, in which human interaction surfaces faults and generates proposals but the agent decides which changes to pursue.

Why it matters

Human review exists but does not hold the decision. 'Reviewed commits' is a weaker control than it sounds, and it is the control most teams would point at in an audit.

Sources

• arxiv2026ouroboros