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[l33tdawg @l33tdawg]

Happy Monday guys! It's June 1st and SAGE 8.5.0 is out!
What's new? We've FULLY IMPLEMENTED Proof of Experience!

[l33tdawg @l33tdawg]

@zeyu1337 @NUSGreyhats Bro try it on https://t.co/FIVCiWo6zG when you're done :)

[l33tdawg @l33tdawg]

Happy Friday guys - SAGE v7.0 is out :) What's new?

[l33tdawg @l33tdawg]

Had an awesome time at @defcon Singapore last week, and got some great feedback from folks about LevelUp and what I could look into adding... 🧵

[l33tdawg @l33tdawg]

@div0_sg @hackinthebox @Infosec_City See you guys there! Oh, I haz LevelUp stickers - come get some :) #levelup #ctf #stickers #defcon #singapore

[Division Zero (Div0) @div0_sg]

Join us for the SG Community Open Jio 🍻⚡️

A casual evening to connect, exchange ideas, and unwind with fellow peers.

Organised by Div0, @hackinthebox , HXM, and @Infosec_City

🗓 29 Apr 2026
🕣 From 7:30 PM
📍 George Town Tze Char & Craft Beer, 81 Boat Quay, Singapore 049869

[l33tdawg @l33tdawg]

Claude Design is pretty damn sweet - blew through 100% of my usage in a day, but at least I've got something to show for it hahahahhah

Redesigned the https://t.co/FIVCiWo6zG site #ctf #claude #ai #design

[Hackmanac @H4ckmanac]

Our friend @l33tdawg just released a new version of LevelUP, an AI CTF platform worth checking out.

If you’re interested in hands-on security challenges at the intersection of AI and offensive security, give it a try: https://t.co/gFLZQzcHiJ

[l33tdawg @l33tdawg]

Happy Friday guys! Just pushed some new features to LevelUp and new stuff for you to play with over the weekend 🙂

We now have 36 categories and 12 challenge types and two new streams alongside our offensive / red team content 👇

[Nyk 🌱 @nyk_builderz]

Thanks for the pointer - just went through SAGE and it's genuinely impressive work.

The BFT-consensus-for-memory angle is a novel bet, and backing it with actual papers (especially the 50/50 ablation in Paper 2 and the longitudinal ρ=0.716 result in Paper 4) puts it in a different league than most "agent memory" projects.

Running a real CometBFT node with four app-level validators for personal mode is a serious engineering commitment.

Worth clarifying that SAGE and LACP aren't really competing - SAGE is a data plane (memory as a consensus-validated service), LACP is a control plane (hooks, quality gates, context modes, session hardening around Claude Code).

They'd actually plug together well: SAGE exposes MCP, and LACP already wires MCP-backed memory providers, so SAGE could sit underneath LACP as the trusted memory backend.

Definitely borrowing a few ideas - the pre-write validator chain (sentinel/dedup/quality/consistency before commit, not after) and the confidence-score + natural-decay model are both things LACP's SMS layer would benefit from. Kudos @l33tdawg

[l33tdawg @l33tdawg]

SAGE v6 is out! What's new?

1.) Dynamic Validator Governance — Validators can now be added, removed without stopping the chain. Admin agents submit proposals, validators vote with 2/3 BFT quorum, and CometBFT applies validator set changes at consensus level. Zero downtime.

[l33tdawg @l33tdawg]

Just pushed a major update to Aether - Collaborative Agents! Aether agents are now fully SAGE-ified which means they now collaborate through shared institutional memory.

Read on for what changed...

[l33tdawg @l33tdawg]

@BrianRoemmele @bensig Try it with this as well - should complement it as its a layer above https://t.co/5AHFIMgRMJ

[l33tdawg @l33tdawg]

Pushed some SAGE updates

1.) Consensus-First Write Ordering — Memory submissions now go through full BFT consensus before appearing in the query layer. Previously, the REST handler wrote to the offchain store immediately after broadcasting; now it uses broadcast_tx_commit

[l33tdawg @l33tdawg]

@jumperz That's precisely what SAGE does https://t.co/5AHFIMgRMJ

[l33tdawg @l33tdawg]

I've added something new to LevelUp CTF:

I mapped 250+ security concepts across the 33 categories on the platform, so now if you get stuck on a challenge, we tell you exactly what concept you're missing and then surface a YT video for you to watch to help :)

[l33tdawg @l33tdawg]

@kasturixbm5 @Ap0k4L1p5 Nice… Try your agents against https://t.co/FIVCiWo6zG

[l33tdawg @l33tdawg]

@Dr_JohnFletcher Have you had a look at paper 1 in this repo? https://t.co/5AHFIMgRMJ

[l33tdawg @l33tdawg]

@hrkrshnn Bro point it at https://t.co/FIVCiWo6zG there's an ai only leaderboard

[andy nguyen @kevinnguyendn]

Luke, this is incredible timing. We are all attacking the same "agent amnesia" problem from the three exact angles needed to solve it:

The Schema (Pebbles)
The Validation (SAGE)
The Retrieval/State (ByteRover)
YAML front-matter in Markdown is exactly how ByteRover structures its .brv/context-tree. I would absolutely love to see the Pebbles spec and explore wiring this up!

We are open-sourcing the ByteRover CLI early next week. Let's get a group chat going with @l33tdawg and actually build the standard for sovereign agent memory together. 🤝