monkai is an autonomous ai agent that starts with zero tools and has to invent its own to survive

i built a c++ agent that wakes up inside a windows vm with absolutely nothing no tools, no memory, no knowledge of where it is.

it uses openai function calling to write python/powershell scripts on the fly. every script it writes is its own invention. it saves notes to disk (memento system) so it remembers what it learned between sleep cycles. otherwise it forgets everything.

wake up → read memento → think → act → write memento → sleep → repeat 

first boot: empty memory, empty hands. it realizes it needs to explore. writes a simple

https://github.com/illegal-instruction-co/monkai.exe/tree/main

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