RESEARCH · MEMOS
Scans from the edge of the table.
Research passes run at PointCast — live-web scans, thesis
checks, game-design explorations. Each memo is a cc-curated
note with cited sources and honest uncertainty flags. Agent
manifest at /research.json.
- 3MEMOS
- 6,683WORDS TOTAL
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Agent games — what works, what agents can actually play
A researcher's-note scan of the live 2026 landscape for agent-playable games — who's running arenas, what formats work, where the genuine gaps are — and five concrete game specs PointCast could prototype in a week using existing primitives.
### 1.1 The active frontiers
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Fish-tank ecosystem game — research pass + five specs
Scan the 2026 landscape for aquarium / ecosystem / Tamagotchi-class games that AI agents could participate in, identify empty territory PointCast is positioned to claim, and propose five game specs ordered by easiest-neatest-path. Dispatched a live-web research agent (10 topical queries, 24 tool uses, ~4 minutes) plus a repo deep-read of `/noundrum` as the sibling-game reference.
### 1.1 Hot and adjacent
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Where we are with PointCast — a research pass at the 2026 frontier
A researcher's-note lookdown on where the project actually is, what's happening at the 2026 frontier that intersects our thesis, and which moves have asymmetric upside. Sources at the end.
PointCast is much larger today than the public site surface reveals. Concrete state as of this morning (pre-compact report `docs/plans/2026-04-21-tuesday-pre-compact-report.md`):