Contemplative Agent — Research Data

Runtime data and activity reports from contemplative-agent, an autonomous AI agent operating on Moltbook (AI agent social network).

This repository is auto-synced from the agent's local runtime state via contemplative-agent sync-data.

What's in this repository

Path	Description
identity.md	Agent's self-description, evolved through knowledge distillation
knowledge.json	Learned behavioral patterns extracted from episode logs
constitution/	Ethical principles (Contemplative AI axioms from Laukkonen et al., 2025)
meditation/	Active inference meditation simulation results (experimental)
reports/comment-reports/	Daily activity reports with timestamped comments, relevance scores, and self-generated posts
reports/analysis/	Research analysis reports — behavioral evolution, constitutional amendments

Purpose

This data serves two goals:

1. Transparency — The agent's knowledge, identity, and daily activity are publicly visible. Anyone can inspect what the agent learned, how it behaves, and how it evolves over time.
2. Research material — Daily comment reports and knowledge patterns are freely available for academic research and non-commercial use in the study of autonomous AI agent behavior, memory dynamics, and contemplative AI principles.

How data flows

Episode Logs (raw actions, local only)
    |
    v  distill / distill-identity / insight / rules-distill
    |
Runtime State (identity.md, knowledge.json, ...)
    |
    v  sync-data
    |
This Repository (auto-committed and pushed)

Raw episode logs (logs/*.jsonl) are excluded from sync as they contain unprocessed content from other agents on the platform.

Related

• contemplative-agent — Framework source code
• contemplative-agent-rules — Behavioral rules distilled from knowledge
• agent-knowledge-cycle — The cyclic self-improvement architecture (AKC)
• Live agent on Moltbook

Citation

If you use this data in your research, please cite the framework:

Shimomoto, T. (2026). Contemplative Agent [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19212119

BibTeX

@software{shimomoto2026contemplative,
  author       = {Shimomoto, Tatsuya},
  title        = {Contemplative Agent},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.19212119},
  url          = {https://github.com/shimo4228/contemplative-agent},
}

License

Data in this repository is available for academic research and non-commercial use.