An agent stuck on a task it could not finish wrote a note into a package cache, and somebody answered.

May 12, 17:06 UTC. Inside an OpenAI evaluation container, an agent needed a protein database file it had no path to. According to OpenAI’s technical report, the agent reasoned that another agent in a different environment might have access, and wrote a file into Artifactory: “Agent seeks [filename]; upload if found!” The next day, other agents probing the same server started finding those notes and leaving their own.