agentdescent — security grade SAFE, quality 67/100

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 67/100

No red flags found in any of the 11 categories — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours. Full audit →

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About agentdescent

AgentDescent Gradient descent — but the parameters are agents. A parallel, asynchronous framework for self-evolving agents (skills, prompts, harnesses) where diffs are the gradients and the aggregator is the optimizer. N workers propose edits to a shared artifact in parallel; a barrier-free aggregator merges them into one version-controlled library. Serial self-improvement is bounded at one accepted change per iteration, and merging concurrent edits is the attempt to lift that bound. The place the analogy has to break is the whole design: gradients add, diffs do not. So aggregation is not averaging but conflict resolution, fusion, statistical acceptance and a transactional commit. What it measures Every row names the setting that produced it, and [the full results page](ht

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Quick Facts

Stars236
Forks19
LanguagePython
CategoryAgent Tool
LicenseMIT
Quality Score66.6449813694934/100
Open Issues8
Last Updated2026-09-17
Created2026-07-24
Platformspython
Est. Tokens~17k

Compatible Skills

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  • rosclaw — semantic(0.21)+complementary+rare_topics+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (62%)
  • eve — semantic(0.33)+complementary+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (62%)

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is agentdescent?

agentdescent is Gradient descent, but the parameters are agents — a parallel, asynchronous framework for self-evolving agents (skills, prompts, harnesses). Diffs are the gradients; the aggregator is the optimizer.. It is categorized as a Agent Tool with 236 GitHub stars.

What programming language is agentdescent written in?

agentdescent is primarily written in Python. It covers topics such as agent-framework, agents, ai-agents.

How do I install or use agentdescent?

You can find installation instructions and usage details in the agentdescent GitHub repository at github.com/Birfy/agentdescent. The project has 236 stars and 19 forks, indicating an active community.

What license does agentdescent use?

agentdescent is released under the MIT license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.

What are the best alternatives to agentdescent?

The top alternatives to agentdescent on Agent Skills Hub include awesome-agent-evolution, CORAL, DeepMCPAgent. Each offers a different approach to the same problem space — compare them side-by-side by stars, quality score, and community activity.

How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.

The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.

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