Autolith is a self-contained Common Lisp agent implemented as a single live image that inspects and rewrites its own implementation at runtime. Interaction is a REPL that accepts plain prose or Lisp forms, letting users call (prompt ...) and steer sub-agents, spawn heap-isolated workers, run LSP integrations, and navigate repositories with fast Rust-backed file search. Developers can update functions, methods, classes and macros without restarting the process, validate changes with SELF.EXERCISE, review with SELF.DIFF, discard or SELF.COMMIT into an internal git-style journal, and persist private image commits that replay on other machines. Sessions are attachable/detachable over authenticated loopback endpoints, exportable as S-expression archives, and runnable headless for automated workflows.
Resilience, large-context processing, and security are built in. Recursive Language Model (RLM) tooling partitions huge corpora by writing small search/slicing programs and running side conversations under configurable token/call budgets, enabling analysis of multi-megabyte codebases. If a crash occurs Autolith writes a crash capsule, boots a pristine recovery image, restores conversation state, and opens a read-only diagnosis turn so fixes can be applied safely. Command execution uses cl-exec-sandbox with namespaces, seccomp and scoped filesystem access, interactive approval levels, credential censoring, and bounded resource policies. Recorded sessions demonstrate live edits, crash-and-recover workflows, and multi-process persistence (example recordings used gpt-5.6-terra).
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