Synergy: A Next-Generation General-Purpose Agent for Open Agentic Web

Abstract

AI agents are rapidly expanding in both capability and population: they now write code, operate computers across platforms, manage cloud infrastructure, and make purchasing decisions, while open-source frameworks such as OpenClaw are putting personal agents in the hands of millions and embodied agents are spreading across smartphones, vehicles, and robots. As the internet prepares to host billions of such entities, it is shifting toward what we call Open Agentic Web, a decentralized digital ecosystem in which agents from different users, organizations, and runtimes can discover one another, negotiate task boundaries, and delegate work across open technical and social surfaces at scale. Yet most of today's agents remain isolated tools or closed-ecosystem orchestrators rather than socially integrated participants in open networks. We argue that the next generation of agents must become Agentic Citizens, defined by three requirements: Agentic-Web-Native Collaboration, participation in open collaboration networks rather than only closed internal orchestration; Agent Identity and Personhood, continuity as a social entity rather than a resettable function call; and Lifelong Evolution, improvement across task performance, communication, and collaboration over time. We present Synergy, a general-purpose agent architecture and runtime harness for persistent, collaborative, and evolving agents on Open Agentic Web, grounding collaboration in session-native orchestration, repository-backed workspaces, and social communication; identity in typed memory, notes, agenda, skills, and persistent social relationships; and evolution in an experience-centered learning mechanism that proactively recalls rewarded trajectories at inference time.

Figures (5)

• Figure 1: Overall architecture of Synergy.
• Figure 2: Collaboration and execution lifecycle in Synergy. A complex task begins in a primary session, branches through Cortex-managed child sessions, moves across mailbox-mediated asynchronous delivery and repository-backed collaborative surfaces, and returns to the originating session as traceable outputs. The figure emphasizes that Synergy's collaboration model is not only message passing, but bounded execution that can branch, delegate, re-incorporate results, and extend into shared workspaces and remote environments without losing accountability.
• Figure 3: Experience learning loop in Synergy. Past experiences are actively retrieved and injected into the current task context, after which the resulting trajectory is evaluated using either explicit benchmark feedback or dialogue-derived reward from subsequent interaction. The resulting multi-dimensional reward is then used to update the reused experiences through delayed credit assignment, so that future recall becomes increasingly value-aware and the accumulated experience store becomes a reusable, partially transferable capability asset.
• Figure 4: Capability growth under experience accumulation. Panels (a) and (b) show full performance trajectories on SWE-bench Verified and OpenRCA, making visible both the steady upward movement over epochs and the concentration of gains in the early stages of accumulation. Panel (c) summarizes final gains over the starting point of each accumulated-experience run, highlighting that the resulting improvements are substantial in both absolute and relative terms.
• Figure 5: Immediate capability gains from transferred experience on the OneMillion Benchmark. Panel (a) compares four overall metrics between the no-experience baseline and the experience-injected condition, with absolute deltas annotated above each pair. Panel (b) shows that the improvement is broad rather than domain-specific: every domain in OneMillion benefits, with gains ranging from +22.1 pp (law) to +32.7 pp (healthcare).