arXiv:2606. 03895v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are becoming long-running software actors rather than fixed tool users.
By Yingqi Zhang
The paper introduces the concept of Evolutionary Safety for recursive self-improving AI, focusing on how safety properties evolve as an AI system and its successors change. It identifies key risks such as intent drift, error accumulation, and safety-property erosion, and presents a taxonomy covering agent state, model state, evaluation, environment, and update mechanisms. The authors propose methods for discovering and evaluating evolutionary risks, and outline governance principles for modification, selection, authorization, provenance, and recovery, while highlighting open problems for maintaining safety in persistent, adaptive, and recursively self-improving systems.
By Chang Gong, Jingping Bi, Di Yao, Xinjian Liang, Chao Xiang, Ruijie Guo
arXiv:2606. 06114v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-evolving agents improve through continual self-play and self-generated learning signals, but autonomous evolution can also cause capability degradation and safety drift.
By Dianxing Shi, Junqi He, Junhao Chen, Bowen Wang, Yuta Nakashima
arXiv:2608. 08311v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present Ouroboros, a self-developing agent harness whose tools, prompts, context assembly, and core implementation improve through reviewed commits that become the runtime for later work.
By Anton Razzhigaev, Andrei Gritsaev, Andrei Kaznacheev, Nikita Dragunov, Roman Yampolskiy, Andrei Kuznetsov
The paper introduces "authorization succession," a framework that preserves authority across self‑modifying AI agent populations that can replace, fork, or roll back. It defines a protocol binding each generation to a manifest, root, unique parent, lineage, and population sequence, and establishes invariants that control root‑lifetime consumption and population exposure. The authors prove properties such as population‑safe succession, fork conservation, and rollback non‑reminting, and validate the approach with an executable evaluation covering 32 decisions and external adapters for two mutation systems.
By Genliang Zhu, Chu Wang
arXiv:2608. 13120v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent Skills are today either hand-authored or produced in a single LLM generation pass, and consequently possess no closed loop through which they might improve from the interaction failures they actually cause.
By Qianxi Yan, Chunrong Chen, Jiuzhou Zhao, Min Zhang, Yongzhou Xu, Xiaochuan Xu