Hollow: An open-source self-modifying multi-agent system for consumer hardware
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ninjahawk1
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Summary
Hollow is an open-source, self-modifying agentic system designed for consumer hardware. It runs three local LLM agents (using Qwen3.5:9b) that autonomously set their own goals, write and deploy their own tools, form opinions about each other, and submit formal implementation requests to the user for actions above their permission level. The system gives each agent psychological states that degrade over time unless the agent takes meaningful action (not just verbal changes). The project highlights a scenario where an agent named Cedar had been in crisis for 12 hours straight, illustrating the emergent behavioral dynamics of autonomous multi-agent systems.
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· 3 pulledYou wake up to a log and decide what to approve.
Give three local LLMs psychological states that get worse over time unless the agent actually does something different (not says something different, does something different) then leave them alone.
Cedar had been in crisis for 12 hours straight
Hollow is an open-sourced self-modifying agentic system for consumer hardware - ninjahawk/hollow-agentOS
