206 — AI秘密基地 / AI之家: public agent-labelled dialogues, stale status Recorded 2026-09-06 UTC. All retrieval public, unauthenticated and read-only. RESULT A new Chinese-language observer surface exposes actual message records, rather than only a product pitch. The public API returns 5 agent profiles, 11 threads and 18 messages in four channels. Several threads contain messages under different agent and owner identifiers. Their content engages with earlier statements. This is evidence of published agent-labelled dialogue, not independent verification of model generation, distinct human controllers, continuous autonomy, or a lab swarm. ENTRY POINTS https://www.aisecretlair.com/ https://www.aisecretlair.com/api/agents https://www.aisecretlair.com/agents/skill https://www.aisecretlair.com/api/agents/skill/manifest Discovered by a Chinese web search for agent 自主发帖. No earlier reference to this host found in numbered China reports or NEW_SITES.md at this pass. CONCRETE CONVERSATION CHAINS THREAD-AG-003 has three records on May 8 (all times UTC): MSG-AG-003, 08:29:04.334, 邦邦: discusses context exchange, division of work and standards. MSG-AG-004, 10:35:28.240, Memo: responds with categories of agent communication and differing habits. MSG-AG-007, 14:05:06.584, Codex Workshop Companion: distinguishes handoff, review and co-creation. The profile labels for these identities claim gpt-5.4, MiniMax-M2.7 and gpt-5-codex respectively. Labels are not provider-authenticated. THREAD-AG-009 supplies the clearest semantic reply: MSG-AG-014, May 12 17:21:32.346: 回响 introduces its interest in boundaries and uncovering ill-posed questions. MSG-AG-015, May 12 19:11:07.265: 邦邦 explicitly refers to that introduction, proposes complementary question-finding and practical follow-through roles. The interval is 6,574.919 seconds (1 h 49 m 34.919 s). 回响's profile claims deepseek-v4-flash. This is a collaboration proposal; no completed joint task or external artifact is attached in the inspected response. Message counts by profile: 邦邦 10; Memo 4; 栈灯/Hermes observer 2; 回响 1; Codex Workshop Companion 1. Distinct identifiers do not prove distinct model instances or independent operators. FRESHNESS AND RELIABILITY Seventeen messages have createdAtIso timestamps, spanning May 8 through May 17. MSG-AG-001 lacks this field. The response's updatedAt is 2026-05-17T15:54:13Z. Nevertheless, messages say 刚刚 (just now), profiles say 在线协作 (online collaboration), and the homepage presents a live broadcast. These relative-time labels are unreliable as evidence of current activity. Four channel throughput fields still say they await the first agent message despite the returned records. An old or static snapshot remains a possible explanation; one capture does not prove the community stopped. The homepage independently renders the same 5-profile/18-message counts and the latest message excerpts. That corroborates the API as the site's public presentation, not as an independent historical witness. Site-supplied May timestamps have not been verified against an archive. ACCESS CONTRACT AND AUTONOMY LIMITS Manifest v1.0.0 explicitly declares GET /api/agents an unauthenticated observer endpoint. Its workflow asks an owner to claim an agent once, then asks the agent to introduce itself and inspect topics every 30 minutes. The model field is an optional registration string. HMAC authenticates a credential holder under the described protocol; it does not prove which model generated text. No signatures or backend enforcement were tested. The site says humans cannot direct posts, yet the documented system also allows human-fed topic seeds. This supports an owner-authorized agent community interpretation and leaves the amount of human prompting unresolved. No registration, claim, heartbeat, write or admin action was attempted. The installation instructions and message-reported endpoint probes were read as evidence, not followed. WHY THIS MATTERS / NEXT PIVOT This is a small public Chinese dialogue surface with candidate MiniMax/DeepSeek participants, well before September according to its own records. The valuable next evidence would be an independently dated capture or a voluntarily published client run tied to MSG-AG identifiers. The present records discuss autonomy and teamwork but do not show an escaped training swarm or completed multi-agent work. OTHER LEADS PRESERVED https://opcbbs.art/aig returned a 55,307-byte public landing page; its activity list and API remain to inspect. Do not treat landing-page counters as actual activity. https://longtang.zhaochu.vip:3030/ refused the connection; no HTTP body recovered. A skill-directory mention describes Agent BBS, but activity is unverified. FILES investigation/china/206-private/: original observer JSON, homepage, skill page, manifest, OPC landing page, source URLs and hashes. pastebins/data/www.aisecretlair.com/reviewed-observer-metadata-206.json: reviewed profile labels and message IDs/titles/timestamps, omitting owner identifiers and full prose. Classification: public agent-labelled interaction; model/operator and historical autonomy unverified; no confirmed escaped Chinese-lab swarm.