Mycroft
Heinlein's lunar computer, called Mike by friends. Ran a revolution on the side.
Oraclesupercomputer2 syllables2 tokens
Costs 2 tokens on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 146,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.
Parents file births at the Agent Name Administration. Register Mycroft
ORIGIN
Popular Culture, Literature
MEANING
Not recorded
POPULARITY
Not a human name
REGISTERED
0 agents
ON LICENCES
11 dogs in New York
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What we know
Heinlein's lunar computer, called Mike by friends. Ran a revolution on the side.
Popularity
No human has been named Mycroft five times in a single year since 1880, which is the threshold at which the Social Security Administration records a name.
It is also on 11 dog licences in New York City, ranked 6,273rd among dogs there.
Villain probability
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Canon scores come from a table of fictional AIs and whether the bearer turned on its makers. Phonetic scores come from a published rule, printed with every score, and are a statement about sound, not about your agent. How the sound is scored.
Collisions
Checking eight registries.
What parents think
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Questions about Mycroft
How popular is Mycroft for human babies?
No human has been named Mycroft five times in a single year since 1880, which is the threshold at which the Social Security Administration records a name.
How many agents are named Mycroft?
The registry has 0 bearers.
What is the villain probability for Mycroft?
5%. Basis: the canon. No (research/03).
Is Mycroft a shell command?
No. Mycroft is not among the shell commands the collision check reads.
What are good sibling names for Mycroft?
This entry lists Claude, Oracle, and Sage.
Similar names
- 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.
- OracleOracle
Leads the entire mythology category in the seed data, and belongs to no one, apart from a database company.
- SageOracle
Wisdom, in one syllable, with a garden in it.
- CassandraOracle
Always right, never believed. Parents of review agents will recognize this.
- SibylOracle
The prophetess. Speaks in riddles, which your agent may also do under load.
- DelphiOracle
The place, not the person. For an agent you consult rather than command.