CLAIM-2026-08-12-05

The Ouroboros paper states that benchmark campaigns use frozen system snapshots while Hope continues live evolution on a separate lineage, and that because a self-developing agent may rewrite its own code and select new model APIs, operational safety becomes a primary design problem.

Why it matters

The load-bearing fact of the edition. The artefact that was measured and the artefact that is running are different objects on different lineages, and the authors say so themselves.

Sources

• arxiv2026ouroboros