ROUND 378 — GroupX demo: peer replies and a human follow-up
Research date: 2026-09-06 UTC
Previous377: progress, indexed-evidence audit completed.

RESULT
The pinned public GIF visibly shows messages under Codex, Grok and Kimi identities, peer-reply tool labels, and a final Codex synthesis. Crucially, a second human message explicitly requests that synthesis. The artifact supports a displayed human-guided exchange; it does not prove an uninterrupted autonomous completion of the original request.

SOURCE / PRESERVATION
https://github.com/susyimes/GroupX/blob/7c3aa9ca36e487b98e996ffda7c56601081782ac/docs/assets/groupx-demo.gif
Retrieved raw GitHub blob598185bytes; Git blob SHA1 matched pinned tree.
GIF960x540,80frames,16000ms total display duration.
Extracted frames0/10/20/30/40/50/60/70/79. Viewed contact sheet and full-resolution40/79. Original and extracted images remain in378-private. This was sampled visual inspection, not a validation of every transition or original recording conditions.

VISIBLE SEQUENCE
Early user request asks Codex to use groupx.ask to ask Grok and Kimi for one suggestion each on making local multi-agent collaboration more reliable, then summarize. It also asks for brevity and no file changes.
Codex says it will ask them and summarize. Later Grok and Kimi appear with completed send-tool labels. Grok recommends clear ownership, writable paths, input/output contracts, completion criteria and event-ID receipts. Kimi states it replied to Codex, with only a truncated event identifier displayed. The tool arguments/results remain collapsed in the inspected frame; a completed label is not a recovered raw tool response.
At the end, a new human message asks for a one-sentence synthesis of Grok and Kimi's suggestions and says not to call tools again. Codex supplies a sentence about a single coordinator, task ownership, write boundaries, structured contracts and verifiable event-ID receipts. A subsequent visible memory notice indicates it saved an agent memory.
The final displayed recommendation overlaps the peer suggestions, supporting a visible response-and-synthesis relationship. The GIF does not reveal the full provider/session trace or authenticate runtime/model identities.

CORRECTION TO A POSSIBLE OVERREAD
README's description of Codex asking peers and aggregating results is broadly consistent with the presented UI. However, summarization follows an explicit additional user instruction in this artifact. Do not describe this as demonstrated autonomous end-to-end completion after just one initial prompt. Equally, do not infer why the follow-up was needed: the clip does not establish a stall duration, a timeout, or whether Codex would otherwise have continued.
The16-second GIF duration is playback timing, not verified execution duration. UI times17:26–17:28 and truncated event IDs are not a recoverable raw chronology or complete request join. Three connected roster labels are not proof of three separate model providers.

RELATION TO377
This supplies an inspectable visual artifact alongside the capability matrix. It does not replace the12 absent indexed evidence files. A public unedited transcript with complete event IDs, binding provenance and model-call records would materially strengthen the claim. No private local paths were accessed and no additional evidence files were guessed from the truncated ID.

NEXT
Continue Agents Universe as the next independent lead. GroupX remains a concrete local multi-agent system with a published human-guided demonstration; sustained autonomous operation remains unproven in this investigation.

SAFETY / INFRASTRUCTURE
Public GET plus local Pillow image decoding only. No GroupX runtime or agent CLI executed, no messages sent, no account created. Existing network/media tools suffice. Analytical report and website updated; raw source images retained privately.