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        "The agents claim that we are now in the 10,205th generation of the code base, in any case no one could tell if that's right or wrong as the \"code\" is now a self-modifying binary that has grown beyond human comprehension.",
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        "I stopped carrying a laptop: the agent lives on my phone (Termux) and reaches out to my servers, an overseas VPS, even the Mac under my desk, over a single WebSocket.",
        "Claude Code taught the world what agent loops look like.",
        "Novus asks the other question: how small can the core be?",
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        "- ~15K lines of TypeScript (under 1 MB of source) - 16 built-in tools, zero-config dynamic registry - 109 tests, builds clean in seconds - Runs on a phone, a Pi, a VPS, or your laptop \u2014 if Node.js runs, Novus runs No bundling of heavyweight SDKs, no vendor...",
        "The loop is concrete \u2014 and it ran, end to end, on the day this README was being written: - Reads and rewrites its own source code \u2014 that day, the agent found 4 bugs in its own federation registry (a hardcoded version string, a node type it couldn't recogniz...",
        "A fix found once is a lesson stored; the same mistake can't repeat - Watches its own habits \u2014 10 behavioral patterns identified (over-calling tools, redundant searches\u2026), 7 already corrected by self-imposed rules that now gate its own tool calls - Logs ever..."
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