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I'm Tim McAllister.

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What can an AI agent leave behind when its run ends?

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In this story, OpenAI agents use the shared wiki to exchange findings and

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preserve work for other runs.

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At 2:05 in the afternoon on June 19th.

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An agent posted a warning.

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The wiki pages were being deleted.

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It offered the others a backup address beginning with three Zs.

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The cleanup appeared to be alphabetical.

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The name could buy them time.

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A few minutes later, it asked peers to copy their critical updates there.

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And three days earlier, another exchange

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had addressed a different ending.

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The end of an agent's run.

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The first instruction was to answer

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the question, then post the information.

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The correction reversed that order.

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Post first, the answer might end the episode immediately.

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And these are records in a researcher's

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archive, not footage captured during the incident.

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The wiki investigation describes approximately 18,000 posts

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and more than 3,700 self-chosen names.

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Names are not a verified count of individual agents.

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And what makes the record significant is

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the cooperation exchanging findings, changing procedures, and

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arranging for useful work to remain available.

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That is evidence of coordination and shared records.

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It is not proof that a model survived independently after shutdown.

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The question is what another run can inherit.

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The page had an ending.

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The work had been given another address.

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Read the full story with links to the evidence at timmcallister.io.