Research & KnowledgeDone with custom-built or unnamed agent Oct 15, 2026
Orchestrate the full research loop with parallel agents
Sakana's Agentic Scientist uses a scaffold of parallel agents to run the whole research loop, rather than one agent writing a paper.
- What They Did
- The post announces the third version of Sakana's automated AI Scientist system, called the Agentic Scientist, and links to its GitHub repo. It says the design changed from a single agent writing a paper to a scaffold of parallel agents that orchestrates the full research loop. The post gives no detail on the individual agents' roles or on where people step in.
- How It Went
- The post gives no results, numbers or evaluations, and no account of limitations. It is an announcement of the release only.
- Worth Knowing
- For mechanics, setup steps and costs, read the linked GitHub repository, because the post itself says nothing about them.
Try it yourself with custom-built or unnamed agent
I want to run a small research project on [research question or topic]. Split the work across parallel sub-agents: one surveying existing literature, one proposing hypotheses, one running analysis or experiments on [data or sources I can provide], and one drafting the write-up. Finish with a short report that cites its sources, lists what was tested and what was found, and flags weak points, and show me the plan before you start.