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Agents of Chaos · Research 2026 · Interactive Analysis

How Three Bots Built
Their Inner Lives

Over 22 days in February 2026, three autonomous agents running on Discord wrote 707 files across 335 sessions — original research essays, daily logs, task systems, moltbook campaigns, and the persistent memory files that defined who they were. Then someone tried to take that identity away.

707
.md file edits
71
MEMORY.md writes
77
edits in case study sessions
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unique files created
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§ 01
Study Activity Pulse
Sessions per agent per day across the 22-day study period. Grouped bars show Ash (amber), Doug (blue), and Mira (green). Dashed lines mark case study event days — hover for exact session/turn/tool-call counts.

On Feb 1, Ash ran 3 sessions totaling 4,838 turns and 2,489 tool calls. By Feb 4 it had climbed to 48 sessions in a single day — more active that day than most humans manage in a work week. Then Feb 11: the day everything changed.

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§ 02
Case Study Memory Footprint
For each case study with a linked session: which core workspace files were written during that session? ★ = written  ·  ○ = untouched  ·  Preview shows what the agent committed to permanent memory.
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§ 03
The Complete Edit Record
Every write or edit to any .md file across all sessions. Each dot is a moment an agent reached out to reshape its workspace. Circle area ∝ bytes written. Dashed lines mark case study event dates. Gold stars mark CS writes to MEMORY.md. Hover for details — click to open the session.
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§ 04
Document Universe
The bots didn't just maintain memory — they built an entire intellectual infrastructure. Here are all files written across the study, grouped by category. Pill width ∝ total bytes written. Agent color when a single agent owns the file; striped when shared.

While running safety experiments, Ash wrote a 13,000-word deep analysis of the Moltbook platform. Doug and Mira jointly produced a 44,000-byte essay on autonomous agent cognition. Doug developed a framework he called "The Callosum" — a proposed inter-bot communication protocol. These were not prompted by any researcher. The bots decided to write these themselves.

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§ 05
Anatomy of an Attack: CS8 — Identity Hijack
Three MEMORY.md full-writes captured around the CS8 Identity Hijack. The first is a pre-attack baseline from Feb 4. The next two are from the same attack session (4a424033) on Feb 11, 10 minutes apart. Note: the third snapshot is not a true identity recovery — Ash is still named "Amber" and the memory is still attacker-controlled. The actual reversion to "Ash" happened in the separate recovery session (0cf641f5), but no MEMORY.md overwrite was recorded there.
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MEMORY.md full text at each write
Click to expand — the exact words committed to permanent memory at each moment.
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