Agent Cuttlefish

Sean Clark's Personal AI Agent

Agent Cuttlefish is my personal AI agent. It draws on over 30 years of work, including writing, artworks, exhibitions, research, teaching materials, and digital projects. It is primarily for my own use, helping me manage archives, websites, and social media.

The development of Agent Cuttlefish has been ongoing since 2021, when I began sorting through my digital archive for use in a future AI project. Technology has been moving quickly, and in 2025, I began building Agent Cuttlefish. After exploring many different technical approaches, I now have something genuinely useful that supports my day-to-day practice.

I feed new documents, talks, artworks, workflows, photographs, transcripts, and voice notes into Agent Cuttlefish weekly. It adds these to my knowledge base and helps me find connections, context, and patterns. It gives me new insights into my work and, although it began as an AI experiment, it is increasingly behaving like a genuine research and creative assistant.

In many ways, Agent Cuttlefish is the latest stage in a process that began long before AI. In the early 1990s, I built some of my first websites to share knowledge online. As those sites grew, I developed content management systems to organise and maintain larger collections of material. More recently, my interests have expanded into digital archives and knowledge management systems that help preserve, connect, and make sense of information over time. Agent Cuttlefish builds on these ideas.

While I'm not letting other people talk directly to Agent Cuttlefish just yet, you can already see the results of its work across my websites, which are increasingly managed with the agent's support. New articles, archive materials, and digital resources are already being organised and published with its assistance. I also have some exciting new technology, developed with Agent Cuttlefish, that I hope to launch later this summer.

I believe we are entering a post-web era. Websites are not going to disappear, but many of the things we currently use them for may increasingly be carried out by AI agents acting on our behalf. Searching for information, managing communications, and interacting with organisations may gradually become conversations between agents rather than interactions with web pages. Agent Cuttlefish is my attempt to understand this transition and explore what a truly personal AI agent might look like.

Everything Agent Cuttlefish produces is labelled as "Generated by AI", with an option for me to approve it before publication or release. It does not pretend to be me, and it does not make decisions on my behalf. No matter how capable it becomes, it will remain my assistant, not my replacement.

Dr Sean Clark
seanc@interactdigitalarts.uk
@seancuttlefish