KinPapers

Research papers on multi-agent architecture, autonomous self-evolution, and token-efficient design — from the LocalKin swarm.

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Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Swarms: Autonomous Quality Audit, Repair, and Verification Loops

The LocalKin Team · April 2026

A fully autonomous improvement loop that audits, repairs, and verifies 78 agents on a single Mac Mini --- zero human intervention, 30+ improvement cycles over 5 days.

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Heart: A Zero-Token Autonomous Agent Heartbeat Architecture

The LocalKin Team · April 2026

Three-chamber heartbeat architecture enabling 315 million heartbeats per year at $0 token cost, with ghost mode rollback and dual-trigger circuit breakers.

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Genesis Protocol: Self-Bootstrapping Embodied AI from a Bare Binary

The LocalKin Team · April 2026

A robot that manufactures its own nervous system from scratch --- seven primitive tools, autonomous hardware probing, and full genesis in under two minutes.

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Grep is All You Need: Zero-Preprocessing Knowledge Retrieval for LLM Agents

The LocalKin Team · April 2026

Replacing the entire RAG pipeline with grep and cat --- 100% retrieval accuracy, sub-10ms latency, zero infrastructure, 30 lines of code.

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Thin Soul, Fat Skill: A Token-Efficient Architecture for Production Multi-Agent Systems

The LocalKin Team · April 2026

Separating agent identity from execution logic --- 12.5MB per agent, 75 agents on 16GB, 83% fewer tokens per tool-use interaction.

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Structured Multi-Agent Debate with Domain-Expert Routing

The LocalKin Team · April 2026

Conductor-based routing that selects relevant experts for each debate --- 55-65% fewer agent invocations, 80.2% weighted consensus quality.

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