Prime Agent

Prime Intellect's self-improving coding and research agent. The **harness** is a recursive language model loop (context as a variable, sub-agents as function calls inside a persistent IPython REPL) plus a Continual Harness that lets the agent create, read, update, and delete its own prompts, skills, memory, and sub-agents mid-run; daemon-backed sessions survive a closed terminal, and autonomous mode runs on turn, token, and time budgets. 95.5% on ARC-AGI-3 with Opus 5; the terminal UI is the shell.

Stars

22.5k

Adoption surface

slightly complex

Autonomy

headless

Recovery

resumable

License

✅ open-source

Category

Coding agent products (IDEs, CLIs, full suites)

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