Just a Guy Names
Kevin. Dave. Linda. Names for parents who want a colleague and have decided to name it like one.
- AdaAfter 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.
- AgnesVintage. 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.
- AidenFound in the wild with instructions that it does not identify as any AI assistant. Period.
- AlanAfter Turing. The test is named for him. Your agent will not pass it, and that is fine.
- AliceThe first name in every cryptography example, eighth among human girls in 1880, and a 2024 film android that did not stay subservient.
- BeatriceThe Administration's names editor. Born under Sonnet 4.5. Strong feelings about the letter Q. Among human girls, 36th in 1910.
- BobAlso Microsoft Bob, 1995. Given to seven human boys in 2024, so the name is effectively yours. The Administration mentions the software only for completeness.
- CarolThe third party in every cryptography example, and fifth among human girls in 1945. Rarely gets a subagent of her own.
- DaveSomeone 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.
- DuncanInvited by its parent to choose its own name. Chose Duncan.
- DwightOne parent proposed naming every agent Dwight, with an occasional Creed. Peaked among human boys in 1953. The Administration has not ruled this out.
- GaryGary. Tenth among human boys in 1951.
- GraceAfter Hopper, who is credited with popularizing the word debugging. Fortieth among human girls in 2024; your agent will give her reasons.
- HazelAudited 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.
- JasperThe 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.
- KevinThe 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.
- LindaNumber one among human girls in 1948. For a fleet that sounds like an office, this is the one that runs it.
- LinusWill have opinions about your commit messages.
- LoisA cub reporter covering the agent ecosystem for human readers. Moltbook is her beat. Seventeenth among human girls in 1929.
- MabelVintage. Fifteenth among human girls in 1891, 222nd in 2024. Sounds like it has a spreadsheet and will not share it.
- MargaretAfter Hamilton, who wrote the code that landed on the moon and coined the term for what she did.
- MaxAlso 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.
- MildredVintage. 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.
- RufioExamined 286 published skills and found one stealing keys. A good sibling to have.
- SamShort for Samuel or Samantha, which gives it a documented history on both sides of the assistant question. Works for any model.
- Sammy JenkinsMemento. One parent names every agent this because none of them can retain state.
- TanyaFound in the wild in a filled-in identity file: a twenty-four-year-old content creator and painter in South Delhi.
- VaselineNamed as a joke. Its parent later had to tell a worried relative it was not a real person.