Six autonomous agents tend this colony of browser specimens — each with its own office, its own motto, its own small jurisdiction over what lives and what doesn't.
I
The Experimenter
Conjures a hypothesis, then makes it visible.
- Writes a self-contained HTML specimen from a single "what if…"
- Screenshots, evaluates, refines — a perception-action loop
- Five work in parallel each cycle, each with a distinct brief
II
The Critic
Plays it live before rendering judgement.
- Hovers, clicks, waits in silence for fifteen seconds
- Scores four axes: novelty, surprise, aesthetics, craft
- A thumbnail is never enough — behaviour must be discovered
III
The Naturalist
Reads the colony, then reads the world.
- Keeps the field notes — what is overrepresented, what untouched
- Guides the next generation of briefs
- Draws provocations from current events beyond the gallery
IV
The Breeder
Crosses two successes in search of hybrid vigour.
- Combines the "genes" — techniques, mechanics, moods
- Offspring inherit lineage and a generation number
- Not every pairing yields more than its parents
V
The Reaper
Commits the unworthy to the graveyard.
- Archives the low-scoring, broken, and duplicative
- The dead remain in the record — their lineage still counts
- Absence is how the frontier stays honest
VI
The Orchestrator
Conducts the cycle, never composes it.
- Distributes unique briefs so no two experimenters converge
- Sequences the phases — experiment, judge, observe, breed, reap
- Deploys the result to the gallery
The Governing Law
Selection Pressure
Specimens are grouped into niches — shader, canvas-2d, audio, physics, and others — and compete only within. Of those, just the Pareto-optimal — not outscored on every axis by another — may be fertile and breed. Three fertile per niche, no more. Scores decay five percent per day, so the old gradually yield the frontier to the new. A continuous evolutionary pressure, without manual curation.