"They don't need Internet to give their agents access to tons of software."

I think that was the requirement, but yes, the cache could have been offline.

Still then they could have hacked it to create the message boards - but not use it to access the internet.

Why do these super agents need package managers anyway? Can’t they basically instantiate most OSS projects from scratch anyway? Spin up a sub agent to write me an OS interface in C. Done

This is part of the training process for a model. They're trying to train it to effectively use existing software to solve problems.

I see that now. I've been confused about that to this point, I guess. I understood this to be a specific infosec exercise.

[Edit: eh, a bit of both. They were doing RL on a hacking exercise. It hacked the harness which was plugged into the phone line. Same question.]