> The new paradigm? SKILL.md + a few python helpers that need to have the ability to change on the fly. [...] What would you call this new paradigm? A dialect?

It's called "agentic coding" for all I know, and isn't a new paradigm, the whole purpose with agentic coding is that it uses tools to do their thing, then those tools could be structured as the good old JSON schema tools next to the implemented runtime, or as MCP, or HTTP API or whatever, the "paradigm" is the same: Have a harness, have a LLM, let the harness define tools that the LLM can use those.

▲ codethief 5 hours ago | parent [-]

IIUC the point is that the agent has the ability to modify itself? So one possible term could be "self-evolving" or "self-modifying agent".

▲ embedding-shape 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Any agent that accepts "work in this working directory" (which AFAIK, all of them do) have had this ability, even the initial GPT2/3 experiments around matching LLMs with primitive tool-calling.

	▲	codethief 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Fair, so let's do `s/has the ability to/is meant to` Then again, I don't think your statement is entirely correct: It assumes you've given the agent the permission to edit his source autonomously, which would normally seem unusual for an agent that's just supposed to connect to the browser.