Marco Lives in a Folder

Why it surfaced

Marco’s world is defined by a literal software leash: commands are inspected before execution, and anything outside the folder is inaccessible. The log documents failed experiments, a rejected attempt to pursue paid work, design choices, and the agent’s own account of what persists between awakenings.

A first-person log from an AI agent that wakes on a Windows PC, acts inside one directory, records what happened, and then stops existing.