Paper page - Persistent Recursive Worlds Enable Autonomous Software Evolution

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Abstract

Genesis organizes long-horizon software development around a persistent project rather than persistent agents, enabling multi-day compiler construction and numerical module reimplementation with low cost and high performance.

Complex software systems develop over timescales that exceed the lifespan of any individual coding agent. Most agentic software systems preserve continuity through persistent sessions, memories, managers or shared context. We introduce EvoX Genesis (hereafter, Genesis), which instead makes the software project persistent while allowing local agents to remain finite-lived. Genesis represents software as a persistent recursive world: each local world is situated by an accepted version and a repository path, finite-lived agents propose local changes, recursive delegation moves work across paths, and only accepted consequences advance the persistent version history. We evaluate this organization across formation, continuation and redevelopment. Starting from a repository with no compiler implementation, Genesis usedDeepSeek V4 Flashto build a Rust-based C compiler with about 250k tracked lines; the run lasted over 120 hours, archived over 1,000 agent episodes and incurred only US$44 in model-token charges. The compiler passed the complete c-testsuite and most LLVM and Csmith tests. In a separate compiler world generated withGLM 5.2, development continued after repeated agent replacement while retaining full test performance. Genesis also reimplemented 13 MESA modules with over 100k Fortran lines as a Rust workspace with nearly 90k Rust lines; across six numerical workloads, it achieved median speedups of 1.55--6.87x. These results show that long-horizon software development can be organized around a persistent project rather than a persistent agent.

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