Automata

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Automata was an early (2023) attempt at a self-coding agent aimed at eventually becoming a fully autonomous, self-programming AI system. It combined GPT-4-class LLMs with a vector database and SCIP-derived code symbol graphs, letting agents document, search, and write code via toolkits and code/doc embeddings. The project explored how an agent could index its own codebase (symbol code and doc embeddings, SCIP-based symbol graphs) and use that index for retrieval-augmented coding. Development stalled and the repository was archived on March 16, 2024, remaining as a snapshot of the pre-tooling era of autonomous coding experiments. Its ideas influenced later work by the same author (emrgnt-cmplxty) on memory-augmented systems.