# Self-evolving agents · Oxagen Research

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# Self-evolving agents

Agents that change their own skills and code.

Skill libraries, workflow memory, automated agent design, and code that modifies itself. Posts cover what the evidence shows and where these methods fail.

## 2 posts in Self-evolving agents

[](https://oxagen.sh/blog/governing-an-agent-that-rewrites-itself)

*   [Self-evolving agents](https://oxagen.sh/blog/pillars/self-evolving-agents)
*   [Code graphs](https://oxagen.sh/blog/pillars/ontologies)

### [Governing an agent that rewrites itself](https://oxagen.sh/blog/governing-an-agent-that-rewrites-itself)

An agent that edits its own code needs the same review as any other change. What safety research says about reward hacking, sandboxes, oversight, and typed contracts.

September 9, 2026 · 8 min read

[](https://oxagen.sh/blog/self-evolving-agents-what-the-evidence-shows)

*   [Self-evolving agents](https://oxagen.sh/blog/pillars/self-evolving-agents)
*   [AI agents](https://oxagen.sh/blog/pillars/ai-agents)

### [Self-evolving agents: what the evidence shows](https://oxagen.sh/blog/self-evolving-agents-what-the-evidence-shows)

What changes when an agent improves itself, what checks the change, and the measured gain, across eight systems from Voyager to AlphaEvolve.

September 9, 2026 · 8 min read