A meta-controller turns coding agents into a scientific research team
The Agentic Scientist lets researchers run computational investigations with a coordinated group of coding agents, from idea generation through experiments, analysis, and report writing. A meta-controller runs agents in parallel and checks each stage against a rubric, while sandboxed experiments keep execution separated. The authors report one co-discovered paper accepted at ALIFE 2026 and autonomous tests across machine-learning problem-solving tasks, with ablations pointing to orchestration, not just model capability, as a key factor in reliable autonomy.