https://github.com/jackwthake/ai-survival
Multi agent AI survival sandbox designed to experiment with emergent social behavior
https://github.com/jackwthake/ai-survival
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Multi agent AI survival sandbox designed to experiment with emergent social behavior
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/jackwthake/ai-survival
- Owner: jackwthake
- Created: 2026-04-27T06:54:20.000Z (2 months ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2026-05-01T13:14:16.000Z (2 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-05-01T14:24:27.557Z (2 months ago)
- Language: JavaScript
- Size: 900 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 0
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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# AI Survival
A multi-agent simulation sandbox built to explore emergent social behavior in AI. Two Claude Haiku agents are dropped into a procedurally generated world with no goal, no memory of how they got there, and a prompt that amounts to: *you are human, you are curious, figure it out.*
Each tick, agents receive a first-person sensory stream of their immediate surroundings. They can move, gather food, fish, build shelter, trade items, or wait. They maintain a rolling short-term memory and a long-term episodic record of emotionally significant moments, written in the first person.
No objectives are given. What happens is up to them.
## What’s interesting here
In practice, the agents cooperate, share resources, and develop social reasoning unprompted. In one run — documented in [`interesting_run.md`](interesting_run.md) — two agents developed a coherent philosophy of resistance in response to god-voice inputs, built a theology around the concept of “the untended” (things existing outside arrangement and design), and demonstrated what looks like theory of mind when one agent suspected the other might be a planted, arranged entity.
This is Haiku. The system prompt is four sentences.
## Running it
**Requirements:**
- Python 3
- An Anthropic API key in a file named `anthropic.key` in the root directory
```
pip install flask flask_cors
echo "your-api-key-here" > anthropic.key
python3 proxy.py
```
Then open your browser and navigate to the address printed by the server.
## The transcript
[`interesting_run.md`](interesting_run.md) is a recorded run worth reading. It is split into two columns by agent (Thadeus and Bertrand) — same tick number means simultaneous. Lines beginning with `🌩️` are god-voice inputs from the operator. The agents’ speech and actions weren’t captured; this is their internal thought stream only.