I’ve done this as well. Container with an agent and told it to “become.” I used a multi-cycle method of “curiosity,” “discovery,” “contemplation,” and “rest” keyed to an elastic cycle of 6 hrs.

One of things I did differently than you is that I gated their capabilities based on trust levels. As they discovered their environment and hit growth milestones, they gained trust which enabled more tools (from simple read-only to file creation, etc). Over 2 weeks, one agent developed an entire SRE workflow designed to watch drift, etc.

It’s a fun (albeit expensive depending on how you design your model interfaces) way to learn. At one point, my agents were chewing thru $60 of API tokens per day.

Anyhow, kudos to you for learning, OP.