EVOLV open-sources self-evolving AI workspace
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Developer dxn111 has released the EVOLV self-evolving AI agent workspace. According to the developer, agents can write new components into their own source tree during a conversation, and after file watching and WebSocket push they are mounted to the page without a refresh; it can also rewrite its own index.html and style.css and trigger a shell recompile, and it offers snapshot rollback, Dream mode, and a Swarm mode with 5–100 agents. EVOLV connects to Kilo Gateway by default, requiring no API key, registration, or extra configuration, and is free to access anonymously by IP, limited to 200 requests per hour. The publisher says the free anonymous model is small and unstable; the project is in Beta, and generated artifacts are only proposals until testers actually run them.
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- Hacker News AIEvolv – my self-evolving AI workspace that rewrites its own UI live
Evolv is a local-first, single Go binary AI agent workspace that rewrites its own UI, tools, skills, prompts and plugins live while running, with changes hot-reloaded over WebSocket without refresh or restart. It ships with snapshot/rollback time travel, a Dream mode for idle self-evolution, a 5–100 agent swarm mode, and support for Ollama, the free Kilo Gateway, or BYOK providers. The agent can also edit its own Go kernel and any user project folder, with evolved components security-linted before mounting.
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