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Technology & AIAug 4, 2026

PAST-Bench: Benchmarking the Foundations of Recursive Self-Improvement in Personal Agents

Recursive self-improvement requires agents to turn accumulated experience into better future behavior.

Recursive self-improvement requires agents to turn accumulated experience into better future behavior. Personal AI agents offer a concrete setting for studying this capability because they retain preferences, task histories, tool routines, and learned skills across sessions. Yet…

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