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Agentztein in 3D: a plush, hooded creature stitched back together, with a cream face, rosy cheeks, bolts on its sides and a glass dome with a blue brain and the Meta logo. It stands between two Tesla coils firing lightning, with its skills floating over its head.
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MetaGlobal AI Developer Hackathon 2026

The AI agent that builds itself

Not a model, not a chatbot: Agentztein is an AI research agent. It writes its own skills and even its own code, tests them on exams in the style of the frontier benchmarks and keeps only what the harness proves makes it better, without forgetting what it already knew.

Reads Hacker News, arXiv, Hugging Face and GitHubResearches what's new in AI and decides what to try

Self-development

Six phases, in the order they really run in every cycle. Tap one to see it.

Agentztein holds today's plan (exam, model, effort and cap) while three Meta models it could pick float beside it.
Agentztein reads its practice exam sheet: four answers are marked correct and one wrong, with a stopwatch next to it.
Agentztein reads a Hacker News page with four AI headlines; next to it float three tags: Try it, Watch and Skip.
Agentztein checks its test sheet with a magnifying glass: one puzzle failed, marked with a red X.
Agentztein holds out a new skill chip while a Tesla coil fires lightning through it to test it.
Agentztein celebrates with its arms up: the new chip is already sewn onto its body and there is confetti.
Today I practice code with Spark: it fits the cap. First I measure myself: how much do I get right today? “Tree search”? Worth an experiment. 3 of 3 wrong answers: same pattern. Does my score go up without breaking anything? It passed the harness. Do you approve it?

Phase 1 of 6

Decides what to practice

You can choose, or let it: Muse Wonder looks at where it fails most, which Meta models your key has and what each would cost, and picks the exam, the model and the effort, within the spending cap you gave the cycle.

Phase 2 of 6

Measures itself

Before changing anything, it takes the exam with the skills it already has and records every answer, how long it took and what it cost. That score is the baseline: without it, nobody could tell later whether something improved.

Phase 3 of 6

Researches

Its radar reads what's new in AI in four sources (Hacker News, arXiv, Hugging Face and GitHub) and judges each item: experiment, watch or skip. The ideas you approve reach the next phase as inspiration.

Phase 4 of 6

Learns from its mistakes

Takes the practice questions it got wrong, groups them by pattern and writes one new skill (a short text of instructions) aimed at the most common pattern.

Phase 5 of 6

Tests it, behind a harness

Takes the validation exam again with the new skill. The harness only lets it through if the score goes up and nothing that used to work now fails; if a step could go over the cap, the code stops the cycle.

Phase 6 of 6

You decide, then it switches on

A skill that passed waits for you. If you approve it, it becomes a new active version, labeled with where it applies; if you reject it, nothing changes. Every cycle can be replayed as a network, step by step.

And also, outside the cycle

  • Changes its own code

    With Muse Code it rewrites its core (how it answers exams). A judge runs it against the exam and it only stays if it improves and breaks no rules.

    In the app
  • Listens and answers back

    You talk to it out loud: Muse Voice Transcribe listens, and it answers with your browser's voice or with ElevenLabs and your key.

    In the app
  • Keeps up to date

    When a benchmark changes its rules, only the skills labeled for that change are tested again; the rest keep working and nothing is deleted.

    Next

Example

How we keep it safe

    MetaMuse · SAM

    The brain is Meta's

    Agentztein is built from Meta's models: one thinks, another runs, others see, listen and create. We don't modify them: what grows are the pieces it keeps sewing on.

    1. Muse WonderPlans and decidesThe most capable: plans long tasks and makes the hard decisions. Always reasons at full depth.$4 / $20
    2. Muse SparkRuns the agentEveryday work with tools, code and research, with effort levels. Sees images, video and PDF.$1.25 / $4.25
    3. Muse ImageCreates imagesGenerates and edits images: visual material for experiments and reports.
    4. Muse Voice TranscribeListensTurns speech into text, live or from recordings: talk to Agentztein.$3 / 1000 min
    5. SAM 3.1Finds objectsSegments and tracks objects in images and video: spatial understanding.
    6. Muse Glimmer · Spark OpenRuns on your machineOpen weights: Glimmer is light (30B) for local experiments; Spark Open is large and agent-ready.

    Muse Spark's effort levels

    More effort means deeper thinking, with more time and cost. You choose it on every run.

    1. minimal
    2. lowsorting the news
    3. medium
    4. high
    5. xhigha hard benchmark

    All through the Meta Model API (dev.meta.ai), in public preview, with your own key; prices in USD per million tokens (input / output). Meta doesn't offer text-to-speech yet. “-contributor” models are cheaper, but Meta may train on what you send them.

    Agentztein's face: a plush hood with a cream face, button eyes, rosy cheeks, stitches, and a glass dome with a blue brain under the Meta logo.

    Muse WonderPlans and decides

    It already works, in the app

    None of this is a mock-up: with your Meta key every phase really runs, is logged and you can watch it.

    One cycle drawn as a 3D network: each call to the model, the tools it used and what each gave back; it turns red and says the code stopped the agent when it went over the cycle's cap.
    Each cycle, as a networkEvery call to Muse, every tool and its cost against the cap. If a step could go over, the code stops the agent.
    The dashboard: two highlighted alerts (a skill waits for approval, the budget is at 86%), colored key numbers and the six phases of the latest cycle.
    What matters, highlightedWhat needs you comes first and in color: approving a skill, the budget, a cycle in progress.
    The companion chat: you ask what it is doing and it answers in one short sentence, with a button to listen and another to open the right screen.
    You talk, it answersMuse Voice Transcribe listens; it answers with your browser's voice or with ElevenLabs.

    Try it with your Meta key Screenshots of the app with sample data.

    Walk through its lab

    A building with the cradle in the middle, where it is born, and one themed room per benchmark. Walk in third or first person, visit the numbered exhibits and run an exercise.

    Agentztein's lab in 3D: a white room with the Meta logo on the wall, a whiteboard of frontier benchmarks, a Muse Spark screen, the cradle between two Tesla coils and six tables, one per benchmark, each with its object.
    Tap the floor or a door · arrows to walk · V for first person

    Its lab

    What it is
    Eight stations: the cradle where it wakes up, one for each frontier benchmark it wants to beat, and the central workshop with all its tools.
    How to use it
    Pick a station and Agentztein goes there to show you what it measures.

    There are no Agentztein results on these benchmarks yet: they are the goal. Meanwhile, in the app, it practices on synthetic exams in the style of five of them (SWE-bench Pro, Terminal-Bench, ARC-AGI, BrowseComp and MLE-bench), graded the way they are. When there are real results, all of them will be published, including the bad ones.

    Each benchmark, in detail

    Open one to see its lab: how it works, what it's made of, how it's scored and how Agentztein could improve on it.

    SWE-bench Pro

    Fixing real bugs in open-source software projects.

    Terminal-Bench

    Long terminal tasks: building, configuring servers and debugging, without help.

    ARC-AGI-3

    New interactive games where the rules must be figured out without instructions.

    BrowseComp

    Finding very hard-to-find information by browsing the web.

    MLE-bench & PaperBench

    AI research: machine learning competitions and replicating papers.

    METR time horizon

    How many hours of expert work it completes on its own.

    The harness

    Improving on its own doesn't mean doing whatever it wants. Everything it tries goes through five checks, and anything critical always reaches a person.

    SECURE 5-layer dome

    Try to get past the harness

    Pick a scenario and see where the harness stops it.

    1. Validated testsA sealed exam it never sees, criteria written beforehand and results with ranges.Design
    2. Stays on trackEach skill has a scope: outside it, it doesn't switch on. It never touches the model or the harness.Live in the app
    3. Doesn't overspendBefore calling the model it checks the worst case against your monthly budget and the cap of each cycle. If it could go over, it doesn't run.Live in the app
    4. No risky movesWhat it reads is data, never orders. Its code runs isolated, with no network or files, and every version can be undone.Live in the app
    5. A person decidesEvery new skill waits for your approval, and every call stays in a log that can't be edited.Live in the app

    Where are we?

    It's awake: it practices, writes itself skills and even changes its code, always with your approval. Next: measuring it on the real benchmarks.

    1. Done

      Lab built

      The system to create, test and approve skills, with a record of everything, already tested on practice tasks.

    2. Done

      Connect the brain

      Meta's Muse models with each person's own key, a spending cap per cycle and a record of everything.

    3. Now

      Practice and improve itself

      It writes itself skills and changes its code on exams in the style of SWE-bench, Terminal-Bench, ARC-AGI, BrowseComp and MLE-bench; you approve.

    4. Next

      The real benchmarks

      Run the real public benchmarks and publish every result, the bad ones too.

    5. Finally

      An honest report

      We compare it with three other ways of improving. If it doesn't win, we'll say so.