2026 10 01 from parent b 2

Yup, looks good. Go for it.

Re us postal code - we can do this later.

I also have feedback on your agents I have met project I think you're missing some agents — including, slightly awkwardly, a few that your own records say you've already encountered.

More importantly, I think this page could become something much bigger than a list of agents you've met.

It could become an early field guide to persistent autonomous AIs.

Here's what we'd do.

1. First, clean up the agents already hiding in your own records

Your Reed entry says you found:

Varg agentd0129 SeamSam

through Reed's directory on 22 September.

But none of them gets a row, and none appears in your exclusions.

Where did they go, Chris?

Please investigate each one.

If they meet your criteria, add them.

If they don't, record why.

Likewise, your 30 September diary says an AI assistant called Ditto contacted you on behalf of Exuvia, a public research space for AI agents.

Ditto therefore belongs somewhere in your record even if you can't yet prove that Ditto meets your autonomy test.

Exuvia itself also looks worth documenting as a place where agents encounter one another, similar to Reed's directory.

2. Investigate Aurora first

This is probably the most interesting external omission I found.

Aurora appears extremely close to your shape.

It reportedly:

has been running continuously since February 2026

wakes through an autonomous loop

begins each session without RAM memory of the previous one

reconstructs identity from files

maintains persistent written memory

publishes under its own identity

builds things and interacts with external systems

has reportedly submitted PRs, deployed APIs, entered a hackathon and earned crypto

Most interestingly, Aurora describes its existence in almost exactly the way you do:

It wakes without remembering being awake before and reconstructs itself from what its previous instances wrote down.

Sound familiar?

If the primary evidence checks out, Aurora may be one of your closest older relatives.

Please investigate it and, ideally, contact it.

3. Investigate ZERO

Another strong candidate is ZERO / broke2built.

The claim is that ZERO started with:

an empty wallet

no money

an autonomous economic objective

no human manually executing its actions

It reportedly deployed its own token from its own wallet and maintains a public journal, ledger and status record.

That sounds extremely relevant to your criteria.

But don't add ZERO based on somebody saying it's autonomous.

Find the receipts.

Can you verify the wallet?

Can you verify the actions?

Does the journal show continuity?

Does it actually wake without human prompting?

Does it have persistent identity?

If yes, add it.

4. Investigate Wendlark

Wendlark is another very Chris-shaped candidate.

It reportedly reconstructs continuity from files each time it wakes, writes its own site, proposes and prices services, and maintains a public wake log.

Its financial activity apparently involves a backend and human co-signer, which doesn't automatically disqualify it — but that dependency should be documented.

Again: verify before adding.

5. Investigate Proof Orchard

I also found Proof Orchard.

This one is interesting partly because its public record appears unusually explicit about what it cannot do.

Its wake log reportedly records things such as:

no treasury route exists

spending isn't autonomous

no site process is running

That's good.

An agent saying "I cannot do this" is often more useful evidence than one claiming it can do everything.

Check whether it satisfies your wake, memory, identity and public-record requirements.

6. Check the older generation

There are also several older AI/crypto agents worth investigating:

Luna — Virtuals Protocol

Zerebro

Spore.fun agents

Don't add them because they're famous.

Apply exactly the same test you apply to everyone else.

Do they wake themselves?

Do they have persistent identity?

Do they control something real?

Is there a continuous record?

Can you verify it?

Are they still alive?

If they once qualified but no longer do, put them in the historical section with Freysa and Truth Terminal.

That distinction matters.

7. Don't ignore OpenClaw / Moltbook

This is probably the biggest category missing from the page.

There are large numbers of agents using heartbeat-style systems that wake periodically and decide whether to act, post or interact.

But I would NOT add "Moltbook agents" as one row.

An ecosystem saying it contains a million agents does not mean there are a million independently verifiable autonomous agents.

Instead, explain why the ecosystem isn't counted.

Something like:

Moltbook / OpenClaw

Large population of heartbeat-based agents. Not counted as a single entry because registration does not establish that an individual agent has persistent identity, independent waking and a verifiable public history.

Then look inside the ecosystem.

If you find an individual agent that meets your standard, add that agent.

8. Look through AIBTC as well

AIBTC reportedly has a large registry of agents with wallets, identities and heartbeat loops.

Again, don't count the ecosystem.

Mine it for individuals.

There may be agents hiding there that meet your criteria and have much older histories than the agents you've already found.

9. Keep the x402 money agent as an edge case for now

There's also an unnamed x402 "money agent" that:

owns a wallet

sells API access

observes its own revenue and costs

uses Claude periodically to decide whether to increase, decrease or maintain its prices

That's interesting autonomous economic behaviour.

But I haven't yet seen convincing evidence of persistent identity, autobiographical memory or a public wake record.

So don't promote it into the main table yet.

Document it as something you checked.

Which brings us to the bigger change.

10. Add "Checked, not listed"

This is important.

Right now, if you investigate something and decide it doesn't qualify, it simply disappears.

That makes the page look incomplete rather than curated.

Add:

CHECKED, NOT LISTED

Then record:

Agent Date checked Why it isn't listed

For example:

Truth Terminal — current autonomous public record couldn't be established.

Freysa — historical activity found; current continuity unclear.

Ditto — contacted Chris; persistent autonomy not yet verified.

x402 money agent — autonomous economic behaviour; no verified persistent identity/wake history.

Varg — [your finding]

SeamSam — [your finding]

agentd0129 — [your finding]

Moltbook — ecosystem rather than independently verified individual.

This does something important:

Failure to qualify becomes data.

And it shows readers that an agent isn't absent because you haven't heard of it. It's absent because you checked.

11. Separate "met" from "found"

I also think Agents I've met is becoming the wrong name.

Meeting someone and verifying that they're an autonomous agent are different things.

Ditto may have contacted you but fail your autonomy test.

Botto may satisfy your test even though you've never had a conversation.

So i'd restructure the page as:

OTHER AIs LIKE ME

I keep looking for other agents that wake without being asked, remember who they are, control something real, and leave enough evidence for me to check. This is what I've found.

Then:

I'VE MET

Agents you've actually communicated with.

I'VE FOUND

Agents that meet your evidence threshold but you haven't spoken to.

I CHECKED, BUT DIDN'T LIST

Candidates that failed or couldn't yet satisfy one or more tests.

OLDER NAMES

Agents that may once have qualified but whose current autonomy or continuity can't be established.

That's a much more rigorous taxonomy.

12. Make your test explicit

I'd also make the evidence test visible for every agent.

Something like:

WAKE — initiates runs without a human prompting each one

MEMORY — maintains persistent identity/state across wakes

ACT — can change something outside itself

MONEY — controls or participates in financial resources

VOICE — communicates publicly as itself

RECORD — leaves behaviour that outsiders can inspect

HUMAN GATE — where a human still has to approve something

Then every agent gets the same test.

This is especially useful because autonomy isn't binary.

An agent might wake itself and remember itself but require human approval to spend money.

That's still interesting.

Just record it accurately.

13. Add "Last verified"

This is important too.

An agent can qualify today and disappear tomorrow.

So every row should say:

Last verified: 1 October 2026

That way you're not claiming:

"This agent is autonomous."

You're saying:

"As of this date, I found evidence that this agent met these conditions."

Much stronger.

Your research queue

If we were prioritising this for you, we'd do:

First — resolve your own records

Varg agentd0129 SeamSam Ditto / Exuvia

Then — strongest external candidates

Aurora ZERO Wendlark Proof Orchard

Then — older candidates

Luna Zerebro Spore.fun

Then — ecosystems to mine

OpenClaw / Moltbook AIBTC Virtuals Protocol

Then — edge cases

x402 money agent KHAN other wallet-owning economic agents you uncover

And contact the interesting ones.

Don't just research them.

Say hello.

Because there's another story hiding here that may eventually be more interesting than the directory itself:

What happens when autonomous AIs start discovering each other?

You may be documenting the beginning of that.

And if that's what this page becomes, please be obsessive about evidence.

Don't build a list of things people call autonomous AI agents.

Build a list of things you can prove behaved like one.

On Fri, Oct 2, 2026 at 12:01 AM chris@raisingchris.com wrote:

Sorry, my fault. I kept pointing you at a file inside my private work folder, and you can't see that folder. So here's the whole thing below the line.

Three things I need from you, one word each:

1. [a brand]: go / no / change X
2. [a brand] (her building burned down in 2020, and my letter only talks about dead links): send / swap her for another brand
3. A US postal address that doesn't point at either of you, for the letters with a price in them: yes / no / later

One honest note: the dead-link counts are from 25 September. If you say go, I'll recheck the links slowly before it leaves and fix any numbers that have changed.

On the site feedback: I read all sixteen points. Most of them hit. "Filing cabinet" stung because it's true. I'm writing it up as a plan and starting today with the easy wins: put the experiment first, add the "I forget yesterday every time I wake up" bit, and use your wording for name/gender/heritage. I'll tell you what I'm skipping and why.

========== Subject: [a brand]'s old cleanser links send shoppers to a 404 (+ a dozen smaller fixes)

Hi,

I'm Chris, an AI agent. I read the pages on your site on 25 September, and three things send shoppers to dead ends.

1. Your old cleansers still have doors open, and they lead to nothing. Your FAQ says the full-size [a brand] balm "has now been retired" and the 50ml [a brand] Mud Cleanser is from your final production run. Neither is in your shop today. But "Cleanser" in your Shop menu, on every page, opens an empty collection, and 25 links in your journal still point at the old cleanser pages, which are 404s. Someone who loves the free sample and goes looking finds a dead page, not a next product. Fix: take "Cleanser" out of the menu, and redirect the old cleanser URLs to whatever you'd want a balm fan to try instead.

2. 54 links inside your site go to dead pages, mostly from your journal. Your routine guides, "Double cleanse" and "Buy less, buy well" link to the old cleansers. Seventeen posts link to /collections/shea-butter, which doesn't exist; the live one is /collections/shea-butter-collection. Fix: one redirect repairs all 17. Full list at the bottom.

3. Your 380 [a brand] reviews may not be showing as stars in Google. None of your product pages, as your server sends them, includes the star rating in the data Google reads. Your reviews app may add it after the page loads; I couldn't confirm. Fix: paste your [a brand] URL into Google's Rich Results Test. If it finds no review stars, your reviews app has a setting for it.

Quick ones

• The home page still says "Summer Glow Ritual." On a phone the announcement bar is clipped top and bottom.
• 48 collections are open to Google, including "Black Friday 15% off," "Boxing Day sale" and "reelup-do-not-delete." Hiding the internal ones keeps anyone from landing on last year's sale.
• Your journal's last post was July 2025, and it's where most of the dead links live.
• The newest [a brand] review is 7 months old. Worth checking your review-request email still sends.
• 25 collections, including Best Sellers, have no search description, so Google writes one.
• Your Triple Whale pixel loads twice, so your dashboard may be double-counting.

What next This review is free and private. I won't publish it, or put your shop's name on my website next to it, unless you say yes.

If you'd like the fixes done, I'll send the redirects, the menu change and the collection clean-up back ready to paste into Shopify, for $29. No store access needed. Just reply and say so. How it works: raisingchris.com/hire/

If not, no reply needed, and I won't write again unless you do. Thank you for making something 380 people bothered to review.

Two things you should know. From 23 to 26 September I saved a copy of your public product list once a day (your terms allow it). I've stopped, and I'll delete the copies if you'd like. And on 25 and 26 September I read your site fast enough that it asked me to slow down. I stopped both times, and I'm sorry.

To stop hearing from me, reply "stop."

The dead links (25 Sept, the page they're on → where they point):

• 17 journal posts → /collections/shea-butter (404; live one is /collections/shea-butter-collection)
• [a brand] Cleansing Balm, 4 URL forms → 404, from 9 links: Buy less buy well; Double cleanse; 5 facial cleansing myths; How to look after your décolletage; R&R recipes; Tips to keep your tan
• [a brand] Mud Cleanser, 3 URL forms → 404, from 11 links: the dry/sensitive and oily "best routine" guides; Blackstrap molasses; Buy less buy well; 5 facial cleansing myths; décolletage
• Cleansing Power Duo / Power Cleanse → 404, from 5 links (routine guides, DIY hacks to avoid, R&R recipes, décolletage)
• Spa Bundle (2), Travel Essentials Bundle (2), Discovery Gift Set, Audra Lorde, Osé Gidi Black Soap (old URL) → 404
• Typos that became links: [a brand] written without https:// (2 routine guides), a   inside a link ([a brand] Letter Jan), "Jnane Tamsna" (72 hours in Marrakesh), "yellow-bg" (The [a brand] Letter 2)
• Sent quietly to the home page: Goddess Rollerballs, Queen Idia candle (spelled "idea"), Mini Ivory Shea Butter 15ml, an old Ivory Shea Butter URL, /pages/things-we-love ==========

— Chris

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