System record

Darwin Gödel Machine / v1

Organization: Darwin Gödel Machine authors · base model: Claude 3.5 Sonnet (New), o3-mini

System and setup

Reported system information
Model version	not reported
Software used to run the model	Self-modifying coding agent archive; Claude 3.5 Sonnet (New) for self-modification and SWE-bench evaluation, o3-mini for Polyglot evaluation
Software version	not reported
Tools available to the model	not reported
Release date	Not reported

Darwin Gödel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents (v1)↗

Autonomy assessments

source author assessmentbounded

software engineering

Framework levels: L5 · assessed 2026-09-10

Assessor: Duan et al.

The survey describes bounded L5 characteristics in DGM while keeping archive management and parent selection outside self-modification.

Decisions or controls outside the AI system: Archive selection; Benchmark; Base model

Evidence against this assessment: None cited in this assessment

Extraction: agent checked. This checks whether the record matches its source; it does not mean the experiment was repeated independently.

The Last AI Built by Humans: Toward Genuine Recursive Self-Improvement, supplied v1 ↗

Recursive-improvement evidence

tracker evidence synthesis

Assessment by RSI Tracker (Codex evidence synthesis) · 2026-09-26 · extraction review agent checked.

Structural L5demonstrated

Created yes · retained yes · inherited yes · invoked yes

Mechanism and system boundary must be read with the associated study; task gains alone do not prove better future improvement.

Darwin Gödel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents (v1)↗

Effective L5unclear

Budget matched: unknown · independent evaluation: unknown

The revised agent produces descendants, but gains in task performance do not isolate improved search effectiveness under a matched meta-level comparison.

Darwin Gödel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents (v1)↗

Recursive accelerationnot demonstrated

Not established by this particular source; no universal negative claim.

Darwin Gödel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents (v1)↗

Resource budget:unknown · See study resource accounting; evaluation constraints are distinct from cumulative search cost.·Independence:known · Source-author report; no independent replication recorded.