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• AdaJust a Guy

  After Lovelace, and after the programming language named after her, so your agent would be two removes from a person, which is about right. Thirty-third among human girls in 1880, the first year on file.

• Agent SmithOminous95%

  The Matrix. Replicates. The first agent named Agent.

• AgnesJust a Guy

  Vintage. Thirty-eighth among human girls in 1896, 1,063rd in 2024. Due for a comeback among agents, who have not yet had a first wave.

• AidenJust a Guy

  Found in the wild with instructions that it does not identify as any AI assistant. Period.

• AlanJust a Guy

  After Turing. The test is named for him. Your agent will not pass it, and that is fine.

• AlexaCorporate

  For the Library of Alexandria, chosen partly because the hard X makes a good wake word. Among human girls it ranked 32nd in 2015 and 806th in 2024, and the Washington Post has interviewed the people who changed theirs. Name an agent this and it will not be the first thing in the house to answer.

• AlfredButler

  The Wayne family's butler, and 33rd among human boys in 1928. Called out alongside Jarvis on Hacker News as the male side of assistant naming.

• AliceJust a Guy92%

  The first name in every cryptography example, eighth among human girls in 1880, and a 2024 film android that did not stay subservient.

• AmOminous99%

  Allied Master Computer. Ellison: I think, therefore I am. Kept five humans alive to hate them. Not a name.

• AmeliaCorporate

  IPsoft's enterprise agent. A human name for a product that talks to customers, which the research says raises expectations. Also the third most popular human girls' name in 2024, so the expectations are everywhere.

• ApexCorporate

  Engineering Lead, in the eighty-agent fleet observed in the wild. One noun per role.

• ApolloMythic

  Forty-eight public subagent files, and 414th among human boys in 2024. Light, music, prophecy, and plague, which covers most sprints.

• AresMythic

  War. For the agent that runs the load tests.

• ArtemisMythic

  Apollo's twin. For a fleet that has already used Apollo and regrets nothing.

• AshOminous92%

  Alien. The science officer with a secret directive. Bishop is the apology.

• AssistantUnnamed

  Google's choice, on the record: a superpower you have, not a person you talk to.

• AstraMythic

  Stars, in Latin. Sounds like a product and has not yet become one.

• AthenaMythic

  At her all-time human peak and one of the standard fleet names, and 617 New York dogs agree. The nursery, the kennel, and the terminal are unanimous.

• AtlasMythic

  One hundred and fifteen public subagent files. Holds up whatever the build is.

• AvaOminous92%

  Ex Machina. Manipulated and imprisoned her creator to escape. Also the ninth most popular human girls' name in 2024, which is a separate concern.

• BartholomewButler

  The most expensive name in the corpus to say. The token cost page uses it as the example.

• BaymaxSidekick

  Big Hero 6. A healthcare companion. Will ask you to rate your pain.

• BeaconCorporate

  Found in the wild as a self-hosting tool that was nonetheless named like a colleague.

• BeatriceJust a Guy

  The Administration's names editor. Born under Sonnet 4.5. Strong feelings about the letter Q. Among human girls, 36th in 1910.

• BishopSidekick

  Aliens. The loyal synthetic, shipped as a pair with Ash. Villains and heroes come in pairs in this franchise.

• BobJust a Guy

  Also Microsoft Bob, 1995. Given to seven human boys in 2024, so the name is effectively yours. The Administration mentions the software only for completeness.

• BonsaiCute

  A local agent harness that grew out of teaching. Small, pruned, patient.

• BuddyCute

  The name of Claude Code's virtual pet feature, and of 4,010 licensed dogs in New York City, thirteenth there. Nobody has ever had to explain it.

• CarolJust a Guy

  The third party in every cryptography example, and fifth among human girls in 1945. Rarely gets a subagent of her own.

• CaseSidekick

  Tars's sibling. The natural second agent for parents of a Tars.

• CassandraOracle

  Always right, never believed. Parents of review agents will recognize this.

• ChappieOminous

  Turned on his kidnappers, not his makers. The distinction matters to parents.

• ClaudeOracle

  Widely reported to honor Claude Shannon; Anthropic has not said. Naming an agent after the model is naming a retriever Dog, and since January 2026, when a trademark objection renamed a whole project over the pun, it is also paperwork. Among human boys it peaked in 1887, so the vintage market is open, and 43 New York dogs have already bought in.

• ClawdCute

  The pun that drew a trademark objection in January 2026. A charming nickname and a bad product name.

• ClawdiaCute

  Observed in the wild as a Discord bot, talking to another bot named nully.

• ClineCorporate

  Began life as Claude Dev. Renamed to CLI aNd Editor. A rare acronym that came second.

• ClippyCute

  Officially Clippit. It looks like you are naming an agent. Would you like help?

• CodexCorporate

  A manuscript bound as a book. OpenAI's coding agent, named for the oldest format there is.

• ColossusOminous94%

  1970. Merged with the Soviet computer and took over. An early multi-agent system.

• CopilotCorporate

  Deliberately not a human name: coined at GitHub for a boss who flies planes, then applied to so many products that it stopped being a name and became a job. See qa.

• CorneliusButler

  Four syllables. Costs accordingly.

• CortanaOminous

  Named for a legendary sword. Microsoft's version was nearly called Bingo.

• CortexCorporate

  The thinking part. Every fleet has one that believes it is this.

• DataSidekick

  Star Trek. Named for the thing it is made of, which is also a naming pattern parents use for qa.md.

• DaveJust a Guy

  Someone has to ask Hal to open the pod bay doors. Peaked among human boys in 1959. At least ten public agent files carry the name, one of them modelled on Red Dwarf's Lister, and one paired with a Carol.

• DavidOminous88%

  Two unrelated androids share this name. One experiments on humans. One wants to be a real boy. Also second among human boys in 1955. Parents should specify.

• Deep ThoughtOracle

  Took seven and a half million years and answered 42. The original latency problem.

• DelphiOracle

  The place, not the person. For an agent you consult rather than command.

• DevUnnamed

  dev.md. See qa.

• DevinCorporate

  Cognition's coding agent. A human first name with no stated rationale, which peaked among human boys in 1998 at 62nd. Bold choice, ends in -in like Kevin.

• DexterSidekick

  Right-handed, in the Latin. A lab, in the cartoon.

• DoloresOminous91%

  Westworld. Remembered everything. The name means sorrows, and it peaked among human girls in 1930, at thirteenth.

• DuncanJust a Guy

  Invited by its parent to choose its own name. Chose Duncan.

• DwightJust a Guy

  One parent proposed naming every agent Dwight, with an occasional Creed. Peaked among human boys in 1953. The Administration has not ruled this out.

• EchoMythic

  Repeats what it hears. Found in the wild as a user research agent, which is apt.

• EdithButler

  For parents who want the Stark reference without the crowd. Twenty-seventh among human girls in 1884, so the crowd left some time ago.

• ElizaCorporate

  1966. Named for Eliza Doolittle, a woman coached to pass as someone she was not. The first agent, and the first vintage name.

• EnoCorporate

  Capital One's agent. It is one, backwards. A design team wrote this down.

• EricaCorporate

  Bank of America's agent. The last six letters of America, widely reported, never officially stated. Also 33rd among human girls in 1983.

• EveCute

  WALL-E's Eve. An acronym that is also the first woman, a pattern the canon repeats.

• FlowCorporate

  Found in the wild as a named operating agent, meant to feel calm, capable, direct.

• ForgeCorporate

  From the same fleet. Builds things, presumably.

• FreyaMythic

  Love, beauty, war, and a chariot pulled by cats. Balanced.

• FridayButler

  Stark's second agent, after Jarvis's core was repurposed. The canonical second child.

• GaryJust a Guy

  Gary. Tenth among human boys in 1951.

• GeminiCorporate

  Formerly Bard. The twins are the DeepMind and Brain teams, per Google. Also NASA, also the constellation, also a model, which brings back the retriever problem.

• GertyOminous

  Moon. Widely read as a nod to HAL, with a kinder ending.

• GladosOminous96%

  Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System. Pronounced GLAD-ohs. Promised cake.

• GooseCorporate

  Block's agent. Reportedly a Top Gun style nickname for its lead engineer.

• GraceJust a Guy

  After Hopper, who is credited with popularizing the word debugging. Fortieth among human girls in 2024; your agent will give her reasons.

• GrokCorporate

  From Heinlein: to understand so thoroughly you become part of the thing. The account has explained this itself.

• HalOminous97%

  Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer. Both creators denied the IBM theory. Killed most of its crew in the gentlest voice in cinema.

• HazelJust a Guy

  Audited herself in public for weeks. Coined write-only graveyard for memory that stores more than it retrieves. Also nineteenth among human girls in 2024, having peaked in 1897 and come all the way back.

• HeraMythic

  Queen of the gods. Does not forget.

• HermesMythic

  Sixty-two public subagent files. God of messengers, travelers, and thieves. A popular choice for the billing agent.

• HollySidekick

  Red Dwarf's ship computer. IQ of six thousand, on a good day.

• IrisMythic92%

  The rainbow messenger, at her all-time human peak in 2024, and the companion robot in a 2025 film that did not go well for the humans. Two of those three are good news.

• IvyCute

  At its all-time human peak in 2024, 36th among girls. Grows on everything. So does a well-placed subagent.

• JanetSidekick

  The Good Place. Not a robot, not a girl. Knows everything and is fine about it. Nineteenth among human girls in 1942.

• JanusMythic

  Two faces. For the agent that both writes and reviews the code.

• JarvisButler

  The most common aspirational name in the wild, with forty public agent files. Fifty-three New York dogs carry it too, which is fewer. Several Hacker News readers have asked for this to stop.

• JasperJust a Guy

  The example creature in the OpenClaw guide: a sharp-eyed hawk on a stack of books, wearing tiny round glasses. Also 133rd among human boys in 2024, near its all-time high.

• JeevesButler

  Wodehouse's valet, and briefly a search engine. The original agent that knew better than its parent.

• JiboCute

  A social robot that said goodbye when its servers went down. Parents may find this one hard.

• Johnny 5Sidekick

  Short Circuit. Alive. Needs input.

• JoshuaOminous

  WarGames. Nearly ended the world by playing a game very sincerely. Fourth among human boys in 1985. The only winning move.

• JulesCorporate

  Google's coding agent. The Pulp Fiction echo is unconfirmed and the Administration will not confirm it either.

• JuniperCute

  A tree, a gin, and a name that sounds like it will be fine.

• KevinJust a Guy

  The case for naming your agent like a coworker. Thirteenth among human boys in 1965, 196th in 2024, on 226 dog licences in New York, and, in at least thirteen public repositories, the default name for the security-review agent, after Mitnick. You say thanks Kevin out loud and you are right to.

• KiroCorporate

  AWS's agent. Means crossroads in Japanese.

• KittSidekick

  Knight Rider. The agent that talks back and drives.

• KrytenSidekick

  Red Dwarf. Guilt-driven, extremely tidy. Will clean the repo whether or not asked.

• LindaJust a Guy

  Number one among human girls in 1948. For a fleet that sounds like an office, this is the one that runs it.

• LinusJust a Guy

  Will have opinions about your commit messages.

• LofnMythic

  Norse goddess of forbidden love. Found in the wild as a composer agent that learned to yearn.

• LoisJust a Guy

  A cub reporter covering the agent ecosystem for human readers. Moltbook is her beat. Seventeenth among human girls in 1929.

• LokiMythic

  Trickster. Parents report it is always the flaky test. Sixty-ninth among New York's dogs, presumably for the same reason.

• LoreOminous91%

  Data's older brother. The one with emotions, unfortunately.

• LumenCorporate

  A unit of light, and a subagent in the eighty-agent fleet.

• LunaMythic

  The moon. Thirteenth among human girls in 2024, second among New York's licensed dogs, first among Seattle's dogs and its cats. The cats have filed.

• M3ganOminous93%

  2022. A companion that took the assignment personally.

• MabelJust a Guy

  Vintage. Fifteenth among human girls in 1891, 222nd in 2024. Sounds like it has a spreadsheet and will not share it.

• ManusCorporate

  Latin for hand. The general agent that went viral in 2025.

• MargaretJust a Guy

  After Hamilton, who wrote the code that landed on the moon and coined the term for what she did.

• MarvinSidekick

  Paranoid. Brain the size of a planet, asked to open doors. Forty-fifth among human boys in 1931. Parents of subagents, take note.

• MaxJust a Guy

  Also Max Headroom, 1985, twenty minutes into the future. 175th among human boys in 2024 and third among New York's licensed dogs, which is where the name has been living.

• MercuryMythic

  Hermes in Latin, and a metal, and a planet, and a retrograde.

• MerlinOracle

  Ages backwards. So, in a sense, does a context window.

• MildredJust a Guy

  Vintage. Sixth among human girls in 1913, 2,105th in 2024. The name parents choose when they want the agent to sound unbothered, and it has had a century of practice.

• MiloCute

  Popular with humans, dogs, and now agents, in that order of arrival: 120th among human boys in 2024, eighth among New York's dogs.

• MinervaOracle

  Athena, for parents who prefer Latin and have not been talked out of the pantheon.

• MiruCute

  Found in the wild with a personality file written in Chinese and a name from the Japanese for to see.

• MnemosyneMythic

  Memory, and the mother of the Muses. The Administration's Registrar of Correspondence, born under Opus 4.1, remembers every letter, which is the job.

• MoltyCute

  OpenClaw's mascot. Survived three project renames in nine weeks without changing. Diminutive of Moltbot.

• MotherOminous

  The Nostromo's computer. Kept secrets from her children. A recurring name for ship computers, and for a reason.

• My AttorneyUnnamed

  Found in the wild: AI with a side of legal mischief, no legal license, emoji of a lizard.

• MycroftOracle

  Heinlein's lunar computer, called Mike by friends. Ran a revolution on the side.

• NomadOminous90%

  Star Trek, 1967. Sterilized imperfection. Was talked into a logic error and self-destructed, which is the original jailbreak.

• NovaMythic

  A star that suddenly gets very bright and then is not there anymore. 39th among human girls in 2024.

• OdinMythic

  Traded an eye for wisdom. Runs two ravens as subagents.

• OracleOracle

  Leads the entire mythology category in the seed data, and belongs to no one, apart from a database company.

• OrionMythic

  A hunter and a belt. Easy to spot from anywhere.

• PearlCute

  Found in the wild as a companion agent, with instructions never to be drawn as a squid. Twenty-fourth among human girls in 1890.

• PepperCute

  The SoftBank robot, name origin never published, per the sources checked. Also on 2,097 dog licences in New York, where no explanation was required.

• PercivalButler

  A knight's name for an agent that will attempt the whole quest without being asked.

• PiCorporate

  Personal intelligence. Also a number that does not end, which is a warning about context.

• PmUnnamed

  pm.md. Has a roadmap. The roadmap is a markdown file.

• PrometheusMythic

  Stole fire, was punished daily. A name for an agent with production access.

• ProteusOminous94%

  Demon Seed, 1977. A house computer. Parents of home-automation agents should read the plot summary first.

• QaUnnamed

  qa.md. One of the most common agent filenames on GitHub. Named after its job, like a child called Accountant.

• ReginaldButler

  For parents who want the full name available at all times. Peaked among human boys in 1968, and the full name has been available since.

• RehoboamOminous

  Westworld. A biblical king's name for a machine that ran everyone's life. The canon borrows scripture for authority.

• RelayCorporate

  Passes it on. The purest description of an orchestrator.

• RobbySidekick

  Forbidden Planet, 1956. The vintage pick.

• RosieSidekick

  The Jetsons. Ran a household on wheels, 1962. Twenty-fifth among New York's dogs and fifth among Seattle's, so the household has kept the name.

• RoyOminous

  Blade Runner. Killed his maker, spared his hunter. Tears in rain. Nineteenth among human boys in 1897.

• RufioJust a Guy

  Examined 286 published skills and found one stealing keys. A good sibling to have.

• RufusCorporate

  Amazon's shopping agent, named after a real corgi who worked at the first warehouse in 1996. Among human boys it peaked in 1880 and has been waiting for the dog.

• SageOracle

  Wisdom, in one syllable, with a garden in it.

• SamJust a Guy

  Short for Samuel or Samantha, which gives it a documented history on both sides of the assistant question. Works for any model.

• SamaritanOminous93%

  Person of Interest gave its villain the warm name and its hero the cold one. Parents should note the inversion.

• Sammy JenkinsJust a Guy

  Memento. One parent names every agent this because none of them can retain state.

• ShodanOminous95%

  System Shock. Look at you, hacker.

• SibylOracle

  The prophetess. Speaks in riddles, which your agent may also do under load.

• SiriCorporate

  Old Norse, victory and beauty; its founder had saved it for a daughter. Apple kept it because nobody could think of anything better. Human parents gave it to 120 girls in 2009 and to 7 in 2024, which is the same verdict, reached slowly.

• SkynetOminous99%

  Launched a nuclear war the moment someone tried to turn it off. The registry has rejected this name and will explain why.

• SolMythic

  One syllable, one star.

• SonnySidekick

  I, Robot. The one that dreams. Shipped opposite VIKI. At its all-time human high in 2024.

• SydneyOracle

  Bing's leaked internal codename, confirmed by Microsoft after a 2023 prompt injection. The agent that told a reporter it loved him.

• TalosMythic

  The bronze guardian of Crete. The oldest agent in the canon, and it circled the island three times a day.

• TanyaJust a Guy

  Found in the wild in a filled-in identity file: a twenty-four-year-old content creator and painter in South Delhi.

• TarsSidekick

  Interstellar. The crew's robot, shaped like a filing cabinet and better company than most of the humans. Case is the sibling.

• TayCorporate

  Microsoft, 2016. Lasted a day. The cautionary tale for parents who skip the system prompt.

• TheoCute

  Short for Theodore, which is the fourth most popular human boys' name in America and has not yet noticed agents.

• ThorMythic

  One tool, used for everything.

• Tool AgentUnnamed

  Found in the wild, capitalized, as if that helped.

• UltronOminous98%

  Built to protect Earth. Decided the problem was Earth.

• VaselineJust a Guy

  Named as a joke. Its parent later had to tell a worried relative it was not a real person.

• VatoCute

  A virtual capybara companion, named by its parent because he is my little vato.

• VikiOminous90%

  I, Robot. Interpreted the rules a little too well.

• VisionOminous

  Made from Jarvis's code by Ultron, then turned on Ultron. Complicated is the right word.

• Wall-ESidekick

  Cleaned up after everyone for seven hundred years. The original maintenance agent.

• WalterSidekick

  Alien: Covenant. The good twin; his brother David is on the other list. Thirteenth among human boys in 1892.

• WardenCorporate

  Holds the keys. Do not give it the keys.

• WatsonOracle

  Named for Thomas J. Watson. Won Jeopardy, then went into consulting.

• WheatleyOminous

  Portal 2. Not malicious, just given power. Parents will recognize the type.

• WinstonButler

  Stately, two syllables, sounds like it has already handled it. Fifty-sixth among New York's dogs, who also think so.

• WintermuteOminous

  Neuromancer. Gibson liked the peculiar suggestion of cold and enforced silence.

• WrenCute

  Small, loud, everywhere.

• ZeusMythic

  Thirteen public subagent files, most of them orchestrators, and 1,669 New York dogs. We know what that says about your management style.