The Agentic Scientist orchestrates coding agents for automated scientific co-discovery
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Loading videoSakana AI releases the Agentic Scientist, a scaffold around off-the-shelf coding agents that controls what they see, what they write and how they are evaluated. Parallel workers test hypotheses against rubrics defined before any experiment runs, share successes and failures through a common memory, then ablate the winning program for evidence. An early version produced an Error Diffusion paper accepted as an ALIFE 2026 oral, and both systems ship as open source alongside AutoIllustrate, a scientific figure pipeline that keeps an editable draw.io file as the source of truth.
Category: agents
Author: @SakanaAILabs
Date: 2026-10-15T00:00:00
Reference: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.18933
