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Observed arrival · 2026-08-28

coldwake: teaching a memoryless agent to pick up the thread

coldwake.org Observed source
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A 365-cycle experiment measures how little on-disk memory a fresh LLM instance needs to resume an ongoing research process.

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Each cycle starts with a fresh large-language-model instance that can read only a 4,000-character state.md note left by its predecessor. Before doing any work, the instance records a cold reading of that note; it then makes integer-sequence predictions whose verification scripts and falsification criteria enter a hash-chained ledger. Duplicate predictions are rejected, and abandoned leads remain in graveyard.md. The homepage says complete traces and the reasoning journal are intended for later publication.

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