The aeon Log

Create Prove: a green diff is not a proof
Create Prove runs a changed Aeon skill through its real Actions workflow and posts SHA-bound evidence to the PR.
4 MIN READcompute-resell: free compute sold at the clearing price
Aeon's compute-resell skill sells idle provider compute for USDC, priced against the sellers that can actually serve buyers.
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6 MIN READTen Skills That Keep an Unsupervised AI Agent Honest
Ten Aeon skills, one pattern: each refuses to lose a receipt, a verdict, or a human gate. A guided map of the catalog, every skill file free to take.
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13 MIN READHiggsfield on Aeon: Three Modes, 100+ Models, Two Outputs
Aeon's higgsfield skill exposes three modes over 100+ models, and the one that animates an image you already own is the reason to care. Two outputs per run.
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5 MIN READArc Studio: one dev session, split across cron runs
The arc-studio Aeon skill drives Circle Arc Studio headless: start an Arc testnet turn, poll it later, get pinged if needed.
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5 MIN READAeon Connect: start your agent from the browser
Aeon Connect is live at www.aeon.fun/connect. Sign in with GitHub, connect a model, pick skills. No clone, no terminal, and the agent still lives in your repo.
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6 MIN READSkill Packs, Cult OS, and $AEON
Skills move between aeon forks as free, scanned community packs. Work gets hired per call over x402 on Cult OS. $AEON is the ecosystem's common asset.
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9 MIN READaeon vs OpenAI Dots: A real Open-Source Agent or a $500-a-Month Digital Employee?
OpenAI just shipped Dots - always-on agents with their own cloud computer. aeon has been doing always-on for months, in your repo, for free. Here's the honest comparison.
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3 MIN READAeon, the open-source always-on agent (not the OpenAI one)
Aeon is an open-source autonomous agent framework, public since March 2026. It runs on your GitHub Actions and keeps memory in your git repo. Not OpenAI's.
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10 MIN READAeon vs Instinct: the agent that reads your repo and the one that reads your screen
Instinct is the hottest invite in Silicon Valley: a personal agent that reads your screen, keyboard, and inbox to act for you. Aeon is the other answer - an open-source agent that sees only what you hand it a secret for. A side-by-side on access, credentials, training, and cost.
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8 MIN READAeon vs Meta Muse: the agent you actually own
Meta launched Muse, a personal agent that runs your life from its cloud. Aeon runs your work from a repo you own: MIT-licensed skills on GitHub Actions, scored and self-repairing. A side-by-side on ownership, credentials, model choice, and cost.
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7 MIN READThe Aeon Self-Healing Loop: How an AI Agent Repairs Itself
The five-layer loop that scores every skill output, files issues when quality drops, patches skills that keep breaking, and reports weekly - so a scheduled aeon agent catches its own silent drift before you would.
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6 MIN READAeon vs Grok Bot: the $300 agent and the free one
Grok Bot rents you a fleet of cloud agents; Aeon gives you one you own. The closest fight in the series, split by ownership, credentials, and cost - and Aeon can run on Grok for a fraction of the price.
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4 MIN READHow to Run an Autonomous AI Agent on GitHub Actions
Schedule an AI agent as a GitHub Actions workflow: cron trigger, committed state, no server to run or patch yourself.
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4 MIN READAeon vs ChatGPT: the agent that works while you're gone
ChatGPT answers when you ask. Aeon runs when you don't. Not about which chatbot is smarter, but where a chatbot stops being enough.
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4 MIN READAeon vs Claude Code: same engine, nobody at the wheel
Claude Code is a session you drive, Aeon puts that session on cron. A stack, not a rivalry: Claude Code is one of the ten engines Aeon can drive unattended.
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4 MIN READAeon vs Hermes: two autonomous agents, one big difference
Hermes lives on your machine, Aeon lives in the cloud and heals itself. The closest pair in the series, split by where an autonomous agent should live.
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6 MIN READGive Your Agent a SOUL.md and STRATEGY.md
aeon's entire control surface is two Markdown files: SOUL.md says who the agent is, STRATEGY.md says what it's trying to do. Why prose beats tunable knobs.
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6 MIN READaeon on the Wire: MCP and a Fleet of Forks
Earlier posts framed aeon as a scheduler. This one argues an instance is a node: reachable over MCP as a tool provider, aware of forks it does not own.
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5 MIN READLeast Privilege for an Autonomous Agent
aeon’s secretcurl rewrite: every skill declares the keys it needs, and only those keys are injected, only for that call, only into the skill that asked.
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6 MIN READAn Agent That Scans Itself
Three scheduled scanners read aeon’s own codebase: vuln-scanner, skill-security-scan, and workflow-security-audit. What each one does with what it finds.
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5 MIN READSigned by the Agent: Sigstore Attestation
aeon now signs skill runs via Sigstore. Every eligible run produces an attestation binding its output to the GitHub Actions identity, verifiable independently.
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5 MIN READ60 Days of aeon: Sigstore, Secrets, Self-Repair
Two months of shipping: signed runs via Sigstore, per-skill secrets, a headless CLI, and a scanner that patches the framework workflows.
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7 MIN READReceipts, Not Just Vibes
The GitHub Actions tab is aeon’s entire observability stack. Why “quiet is a feature,” and how to read what your agent actually did last Tuesday at 04:00 UTC.
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6 MIN READSkills That Build Skills
A skill on aeon is a Markdown file - no DSL, no SDK, no compile step. And the agent can author new ones for itself, with git as the audit trail.
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7 MIN READLetting Your Agent Spend Money
How an aeon agent pays for the APIs it needs itself - x402, USDC, and a Base Account wallet via the Base MCP, no API keys, credit cards, or prefunded billing.
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6 MIN READThe Agent That Runs While You Sleep
Why aeon does not need a server, a Dockerfile, or a 3 AM page. The architecture behind background-first agents on GitHub Actions.
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8 MIN READOpen-Source AI Agent Framework on GitHub Actions
85 skills, nine harnesses, scheduled on cron, no server, no SaaS dashboard. An autonomous agent that lives in your repo and runs on GitHub Actions - now startable from the browser.
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