Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent
THE SO WHAT
Self-improving RLM agents move the bottleneck from coding the agent to constraining its learning loop. Before adopting anything like this, teams need a clear policy on what data the agent can learn from and how regressions are detected and rolled back.
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