https://recursiveai.org/research/ Notes from building software with a fleet of agents: patterns that survived contact with real work. en-us https://recursiveai.org/research/normalize-like-a-skeptic/ https://recursiveai.net/research/normalize-like-a-skeptic/ Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Measuring AI-assisted development honestly: score scope, never lines; classify diffs, never messages; decompose, don’t zero; drop eras with missing data from headline claims. A comparison that only survives friendly normalization isn’t evidence. https://recursiveai.org/research/pixel-statistics/ https://recursiveai.net/research/pixel-statistics/ Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A character passed three experiments and a cross-experiment comparison with no face. Mechanical metrics validate geometry, scale, and consistency well — and validate semantics not at all. https://recursiveai.org/research/git-diffable-feedback/ https://recursiveai.net/research/git-diffable-feedback/ Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT When an agent misbehaves, the durable fix is a short, readable rule appended to its definition. The learned policy is text: read it, diff it, blame it, revert it. https://recursiveai.org/research/sub-agent-tool-calls/ https://recursiveai.net/research/sub-agent-tool-calls/ Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A helper agent burns its own context on messy discovery, then injects clean, executed tool calls into the parent’s queue. The parent’s context holds the answer, not the search noise. https://recursiveai.org/research/decomposition-vs-checkpointing/ https://recursiveai.net/research/decomposition-vs-checkpointing/ Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT When every step is an independently addressable endpoint, replaying step 30 means calling step 30. And when a multi-agent build needs resuming, the resumer should be an agent, not a replay engine. https://recursiveai.org/research/orchestration-vs-inference/ https://recursiveai.net/research/orchestration-vs-inference/ Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A flow is deliberately not a workflow engine. Control flow belongs one layer up, in real code — fusing the two couples the thing you want to iterate on to the thing you want to be boring. https://recursiveai.org/research/integration-catalogues/ https://recursiveai.net/research/integration-catalogues/ Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A connector library is a moat only against users who can’t generate their own tools. The axis that actually matters is time-to-first-working-integration.