{"slug": "partner-an-ai-that-does-research-while-you-sleep", "title": "Partner: An AI That Does Research While You Sleep", "summary": "Based on the article, Partner is an autonomous AI research companion that works independently in the background, conducting tasks like reading papers, analyzing codebases, and generating ideas without user commands. It runs a configurable research cycle every 30 minutes, where each cycle automatically spawns new events to continue the research process. The user simply checks in by asking \"what have you been doing?\" to receive a report of the AI's discoveries.", "body_md": "**LLM generates text. Agent executes tasks. Partner does research — on its own.**\n\n## The Problem\n\nAs a researcher, I have more ideas than time. Papers to read, experiments to run, code to review, and connections to find between projects. No matter how fast I work, the backlog grows.\n\nWhat if I had a research companion that worked independently — reading papers, exploring my codebase, building a knowledge base, and proposing new ideas — while I focused on the hard problems?\n\n## The Three Layers of AI\n\nWe've seen two layers of AI tools:\n\n## Introducing Partner 🤝\n\nPartner is an **autonomous research entity**. It sits on top of existing agent frameworks (like how agents sit on top of LLMs) and conducts research independently.\n\nThe core interaction is beautifully simple:\n\n\"Hey Partner, what have you been doing?\"\n\nAnd it tells you everything it discovered while you were away.\n\n## How It Works\n\nPartner runs in the background, executing a research cycle every 30 minutes (configurable). Each cycle:\n\n-\n**Picks a task** from its queue (self-generated or user-injected) -\n**Executes it** via the agent backend (web search, code analysis, etc.) -\n**Records findings** in its knowledge base -\n**Generates new tasks** based on what it learned -\n**Repeats**— forever\n\n## Events: The Heart of Partner\n\nAn **Event** is one complete research cycle — like how Agents have Skills, Partner has Events.\n\nEach Event follows a structured flow:\n\n📖 Literature → Search and read papers\n\n🔬 Project Scan → Analyze your codebase\n\n💡 Idea Generate → Propose improvements\n\n🧭 Exploration → Try new directions\n\n📝 Knowledge → Record findings\n\n🌱 Spawn → Create new Events\n\nEvents **grow on their own** — one Event's findings automatically spawn new Events. The research never stops.\n\n## Real Results\n\nI ran Partner overnight on my bioinformatics research projects. By morning:\n\n-\n**29 research cycles** completed autonomously -\n**34 tasks** finished -\n**48 knowledge entries** accumulated -\n**94 tasks** queued for future exploration\n\nKey discoveries Partner made on its own:\n\n## Multi-Agent Support\n\nPartner works on top of existing agent frameworks — it doesn't reinvent the wheel.\n\nRun `partner setup`\n\nto auto-detect installed agents.\n\n## Cross-Platform\n\nPartner runs on **Linux, macOS, Windows, and WSL**. On WSL, it can automatically access your Windows files through the WSL Bridge.\n\n## Getting Started\n\n```\ngit clone https://github.com/zty522/partner.git\ncd partner\npip install -e .\npartner setup\n```\n\nThen open your agent (Hermes, OpenClaw, etc.) and say:\n\n\"Hey Partner, what have you been doing?\"\n\n## What's Next\n\n-\n**WeChat/QQ integration**— ask Partner via voice message -\n**Community Events**— share and install Event templates -\n**Multi-Partner collaboration**— multiple Partners working together -\n**More agent backends**— Claude Code, Cursor, and more\n\n**Partner: because research shouldn't wait for you.**\n\nGitHub:\n\n# 🤝 Partner\n\n*\"Hey Partner, what have you been doing?\"*\n\n**An AI research companion that works independently in the background\nYou don't give it commands. You just check in.**\n\n## The Idea\n\n```\nLLM:     You ask → It answers → Done\nAgent:   You command → It executes → Waits\nPartner: It works on its own → You ask \"what have you been doing?\" → It reports\n```\n\nPartner is **proactive**. It reads papers, explores your projects, builds a knowledge base, and proposes new ideas — all without you telling it to. When you're ready, you just ask:\n\n\"Hey Partner, what have you been doing?\"\n\nAnd it tells you everything it discovered while you were away.\n\n## Quick Start\n\n```\ngit clone https://github.com/zty522/partner.git\ncd partner\npip install -e .\npartner setup\n```\n\nThe setup wizard detects your installed agents (Hermes, Codex, Claude Code), configures a workspace, and registers Partner as a skill. Then just talk naturally:\n\n```\nYou:\n```\n\n…", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/partner-an-ai-that-does-research-while-you-sleep", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/zty522/partner-an-ai-that-does-research-while-you-sleep-jfl", "published_at": "2026-05-23 15:42:48+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-23 16:02:11.652654+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "research", "developer-tools", "products"], "entities": ["Partner"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/partner-an-ai-that-does-research-while-you-sleep", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/partner-an-ai-that-does-research-while-you-sleep.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/partner-an-ai-that-does-research-while-you-sleep.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/partner-an-ai-that-does-research-while-you-sleep.jsonld"}}