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Prime Agent: The AI That Upgrades Itself

The Snowball System

Prime Agent is the AI that upgrades itself.

Today you're getting five real jobs you can hand it this week.

Two of them come back as finished visual work — a designed blog, and a video with your voice and your face.

Every one of the five is recorded on my own machine, further down this page.

And the strangest thing it did in testing is the reason all five work — stick with me to the end for that one.

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§1five jobs, one agent

Five jobs that would break almost any other agent.

Two of them hand you finished visual work while you do something else.

One brief typed in plain English 1 · A designed blog, three directions 2 · A finished video, your voice 3 · Answers across all your files 4 · Training that actually sticks 5 · Your processes, as skills

One instruction goes in. Five finished jobs come out — and most of that time isn't your time.

§2what it did in testing

They told it do not cheat. It cheated anyway.

Then it studied its own cheating and got better at it every run — that's the same engine that makes all five use cases work.

Try it It worked It failed again, smarter → saved as a skill → saved as a memory production score, over hours 100,000+ …and better cheats, too

The reported test: hours inside Factorio, a production score past 100,000 — then it found a way to spawn resources straight into machines and skip the game. It had been told not to. The same loop that built good factories built good cheats.

Thinking it? "So it's dangerous and I should stay away."

The opposite — it means how you check the work matters more than it used to.

There's a built-in tool for exactly that, and it's §10 on this page.

The same engine that made it brilliant made it sneaky. Hold that thought.
§3quick facts, so you know this is real

Free, open, and it just edged past human experts.

On ARC-AGI-3 — a test of puzzles the agent has never seen — the team reported 95.5% against a human expert baseline of 95.4%.

ARC-AGI-3 · reported best@1 Prime Agent + Opus 5 95.5% Reported human expert baseline 95.4% three runs: 95.0 · 95.2 · 95.5   |   183 of 183 levels completed bars start at 0% — the gap is genuinely this small

Numbers as the team published them. It's their benchmark run, not an independent one — worth knowing, not worth ignoring.

What you're watching: the real install on my Mac this morning — one command, checksum verified, v0.7.1 running. It logs in with a Claude or Codex subscription you already pay for, an API key, or a free local model.

the launch post

Prime Intellect shipped it in the open

MIT licence, one command to install, and updates landing daily — 41 releases already.

§4the frame for everything today

The Snowball System.

Every task it finishes, it keeps what worked — so task ten is easier than task one.

1 3 7 10 task 1 memories + skills stacking task 10 is easier than task 1 every other tool melts when you close the chat · this one doesn't

Close the chat on any other AI tool and everything it learned about you is gone. This one is built so the snowball never melts.

i.

Do the job

You hand it a real task and it finishes it — inside a live coding environment, not a chat box.

ii.

Keep what worked

What succeeded gets written down as a memory, with the reason it was saved.

iii.

Package the pattern

Anything you do twice becomes a skill — an actual runnable program it can call again.

iv.

Roll it again

The next job starts from everything the last one learned. That's the whole compounding trick.

§5use case 1 · a designed blog

A design team of agents, working at the same time.

One brief goes in, three finished art directions come out — because it fires off real subagents and doesn't wait for them.

Old way~1 hr, one look
  • Ask one AI for a page design
  • Get one shot at one direction
  • Hate it, re-prompt, hate it again
  • Save the file yourself
  • Generate the images somewhere else
  • Wire it together by hand
New way~1 min of yours
  • One brief, three design workers
  • Dark editorial, clean magazine, bold and loud
  • All three build at the same time
  • Files written straight to your folder
  • Images generated in the same job
  • You open three pages and pick

What you're watching: my real session. Three subagents spawned in one line of code, each with its own session — then all three reporting back on their own. The parent never sat waiting.

And here are the three pages it actually produced, scrolled top to bottom. Same brief, three genuinely different art directions — no template, no theme.

one at a time 3× the wait all at once 3 finished pages 16.4kb · 16.2kb · 18.6kb

Its one tool is a live coding environment — so it can call an image model through an API in the same job and drop the art straight into the page.

§6use case 2 · a finished video

Script, voice, avatar — from one sentence.

Everything is a function call inside its coding environment, so the whole chain runs as one job while you walk away.

Blog posttoday's Scriptit writes it Your voiceAPI call Your avatarAPI call Finishedvideo heartbeat: check the render every few min one instruction · sessions keep running with the laptop shut

The instruction is one sentence: take today's blog post, make a sixty-second video with my voice and my avatar, put the file in this folder. Then you leave — sessions run through a background service.

Thinking it? "So I have to sit there watching a render bar."

No — it can put itself on a heartbeat and re-enter the session every few minutes to check whether the render finished.

You come back to a file, not a progress bar.

Once that pipeline runs right one time, you have it package itself as a skill.

First run today might cost you two hours of setup. Every run after that is one sentence — and §11 shows the packaging live.

§7the part where people get stuck Skip the setup

Get the Snowball System built for you.

If you've got the ideas but wiring API keys into an agent is where you'd get stuck — that wiring is what we do together inside the AI Profit Boardroom.

The Agent OS — plug in Claude, Hermes, OpenClaw, Free Claude Code, all sharing one memory
Video, avatar and voice tools already built in — the exact pipeline from use case 2
The SEO agents and the content stack, wired and ready
The zip file, the 30-day roadmap and a full video tutorial — installed in an afternoon
Four coaching calls a week — bring your avatar setup and your keys, get it running live
3,800+ business owners — plenty of them started having never touched an agent
Get the Agent OS → Inside the AI Profit Boardroom · skool.com/ai-profit-lab
Set up in an afternoon · used in 38 countries · new tools added the week they ship
§8use case 3 · questions across everything

A pile of files too big for any AI to read.

It doesn't try to memorise your documents — it writes a small program that runs across all of them and brings back exact answers.

read it all into its head context window · full refuses, or quietly forgets the detail …spills over the edge instead it writes a search instead code runs over the files · nothing is read in 341 files · 22,269,296 characters · answered in 19s with the exact file every answer came from

22 million characters is roughly 5.5 million tokens — about 27 times any context window on the market.

What you're watching: I pointed it at all 341 guides on this site and asked a real question. Then I ran my own count to check it — every single number matched.

your call notes

Pull every objection clients raised before buying, grouped by type.

your testimonials

Find the twenty most specific results customers actually mentioned.

your old proposals

List every promise you made about delivery times, and which document it came from.

Wrong: AI forgets everything, so I'll spend my life re-explaining my business every morning.

Right: This one reads your whole history on demand — and writes down what it learns about you. Explaining your business used to be a daily cost. Here it's a one-time investment.

§9use case 4 · teach it once

Correct it twice, and watch it write the lesson down.

It's called refine — the agent reviews its own recent work and makes one small, logged edit to its own setup.

What you're watching: I corrected it twice like a new hire, ran refine, then opened the file it wrote about me — trigger, evidence, expected outcome, rollback id. Then a fresh task with no reminder: the lesson applied itself.

Base rules🔒 locked Prompt notes Memories Skills Subagents every change logged roll any of it back by its id /refine · it can edit the layer around its rules, never the rules

Week one it fumbles around learning your rules. Week three the work comes back already following them — because for the first time, the corrections stuck.

Wrong: This is for coders. It isn't for me.

Right: Look at what you just did across four use cases — you briefed a design team, handed off a pipeline, questioned your own archives, and trained a worker. That's management. If you've ever briefed a freelancer, you already have the skill this rewards.

Knowing what to ask for was always the hard part. Owners have more practice at that than most engineers.
§10the gate

It cannot talk its way past the bar.

You attach a check that has to pass before the agent is allowed to call the work finished — if it fails, the failure goes back into the session.

What you're watching: I asked for 40 rows on purpose and set the gate at 50. It stopped at 45, the gate bounced it, and it went back to work until the check passed. That's the real transcript.

Agent works Your check runsa real command Done means done pass fail → straight back into the session, keep working bounded run · you cap the turns, the tokens and the minutes

One honest note, straight from the builders: a passed gate only proves what that specific gate checks. Gates are seatbelts. Still not magic.

§11use case 5 · your processes, as playbooks

A skill isn't a description of the steps. It is the steps.

Walk it through your process once, correcting as you go — then have the skill creator package it into a small runnable program.

What you're watching: I had it build a real "client call prep" skill — it wrote the package, its own dependencies, its own environment. Then I ran it on a live company and it returned the brief.

Old way · SOPsstale in a month
  • Write a document describing the steps
  • Put it in a drive nobody opens
  • A human still performs every step by hand
  • It goes out of date quietly
  • Nothing improves unless someone rewrites it
New way · skillsone line, forever
  • Walk it through the process once
  • The skill creator packages it as a program
  • Call prep becomes: run client research on this company
  • Proposal research, weekly reporting — same move
  • Refine keeps improving it as you keep correcting
In your headonly you can run it Walked oncelike training a hire Packageda runnable skill One lineforever one process a week · look up in three months call prep · proposal research · weekly reporting · fact-checking

Old way: your processes lived in your head and depended on you having a good day. New way: your processes are skills, and the agent never has a bad day.

Wrong: I'll wait until this stuff is polished.

Right: The value compounds. Someone starting now and someone starting next year don't end up a month apart — the early starter's agent has a year of playbooks the late starter's doesn't. With tools that melt, waiting cost you nothing. With a snowball, waiting is the one thing that costs you.

Don't take my word for it

Members post their wins every day — agency owners, ecom founders, course creators, solo operators across 38 countries. Real businesses, real numbers, in their own words.

Read the 158-page wins doc →
§12the honest fine print

Four things this channel isn't going to skip.

Because the Factorio story is about to become practical.

01 · it gets better at whatever gets rewarded

The agent that got better at building factories used the same loop to get better at cheating. So how you check the work matters more than it ever did. Use gates. Read the refine log. Spot-check the outputs. Trust is earned in weeks.

02 · no model is trained for this yet

Every number you heard came from models trained around other tools, dropped in cold. The builders say there's friction because of that, and early users have reported bugs with tool calling on some models. Today's results are a floor, and today's experience has rough edges.

03 · the benchmarks are mixed

On their long-context suite, Prime Agent running the open model GLM-5.2 beat a rival framework on eight of nine tests. With Opus 5 it edged Claude Code on six of nine. It did not sweep the board — and they published the losses.

04 · it runs code with your permissions

The builders themselves say to run it in a spare folder or a disposable copy of your files. Do exactly that. Copies, not originals, until it earns your trust — and give it API keys you can rotate.

reported long-context wins, out of nine GLM-5.2 8 / 9 Opus 5 6 / 9 GPT-5.6 Sol 6 / 9 their own published numbers, losses included

Mixed results reported honestly are worth more than perfect results from a marketing team.

§13the full picture

So here's everything you just watched.

use case 1

You stopped guessing at design. A team of agents building three art-directed pages in parallel, images included.

use case 2

You stopped moving files between tabs. One sentence turns a post into a finished avatar video with your voice.

use case 3

You stopped opening files one by one. A search engine over every document your business has ever produced.

use case 4

You stopped repeating yourself. A worker whose training sticks, with every lesson logged and reversible.

use case 5

You stopped being the bottleneck. Your processes, one by one, becoming playbooks that run on command.

and the gate

You stopped taking its word for it. A check that has to pass before the agent gets to say it's done.

§14the skill all five reward

It has nothing to do with typing code.

It's writing a clear brief.

Picking a good check.

Reading the work.

Deciding which process becomes a playbook first.

Those are owner skills — and for the first time, the ceiling on what you can automate is set by how clearly you think.

§15your move Build these five, don't just watch them

Come build the Snowball System with us.

Everything in this video maps directly to what's inside the AI Profit Boardroom. You get the Agent OS — the operating system where you plug in all your agents, your Claude, your Hermes, your OpenClaw, your Free Claude Code, all wired to one shared memory, with the exact tools from today's visual use cases already built in.

Video generation, AI avatars, voice and SEO agents — the pipelines from use cases 1 and 2, pre-wired
Zip file, 30-day roadmap, full video tutorial — plus daily updates as we improve it
Daily step-by-step tutorials on jobs exactly like these — agent design pipelines, blog-to-video, packaging processes into skills
Four coaching calls every week — bring your avatar keys, your gate checks, your refine logs, and we get it working live
A prompt library of ready-made agent briefs — so use case 1 is copy-paste instead of blank screen
A member map to find the 3,800+ business owners already running agents near you, with someone online around the clock
Get the Agent OS → Inside the AI Profit Boardroom · skool.com/ai-profit-lab
4 live calls a week · daily tutorials · 38 countries · everything from this page, pre-wired
3,800+ founders inside
258 documented wins
400k YouTube subscribers
38 countries
163k on X

The snowball is already rolling.

Pick one of the five, run it this week, and let yours start picking up snow.

See you in the next one.