agentdescent: Gradient descent, but the parameters are agents — a parallel, asynchronous framework for self-evolving agents

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How to install agentdescent

pip install "agentdescent>=0.8.0"
git clone https://github.com/Birfy/agentdescent && cd agentdescent

Taken from the project's README on GitHub.

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 67/100

None of the 42 rules matched — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against 42 published rules built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours.

The quality score combines nine heuristic checks of the repo and its README: completeness, clarity, specificity, examples, structure, agent readiness, step-by-step content, instruction quality and security notes. It rates how well the project explains itself to an agent, not the code.

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Quick Facts

Stars203
Forks26
LanguagePython
CategoryAgent Tool
LicenseMIT
Quality Score67/100
Open Issues14
Last Updated2026-11-07
Created2026-07-24
Platformspython
Est. Tokens~17k

About agentdescent

AgentDescent Website & interactive demo · Get started · Documentation 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.

Compatible Skills

These tools work well together with agentdescent for enhanced workflows:

  • agentdescent — semantic(1.00)+rare_topics+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (75%)
  • CORAL — semantic(0.29)+complementary+rare_topics+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (65%)
  • Sage — semantic(0.28)+complementary+rare_topics+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (64%)

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How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy: 42 published rules, covering credential harvesting, data exfiltration, curl | sh installers and more. 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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