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title: "The Self-Evolving Platform: When a Level-5 AI Platform-Engineering System Generates a Substrate That Improves Itself From Within"
type: article
authors:
  - family-names: "Agaev"
    given-names: "Roman"
year: 2026
license: CC-BY-4.0
repository-code: "https://github.com/romanagaev/self-evolving-platform"
abstract: >-
  A position, feasibility, and reference-architecture study of platform
  self-evolution: a software platform that converts requirements — inferred
  from its own defects and misfunction, or supplied externally as EARS-structured
  or free natural-language text — into verified, deployed changes to itself,
  including the environment in which it is authored. The work argues this
  capability is enabled by a Level-5 platform-engineering AI (per the LLMGen
  benchmark hierarchy), proposes a Levels of Self-Evolution (L0-L5) ontology,
  and specifies the governed Self-Evolution Loop (SEL) as an SDLC-native
  generalization of the MAPE-K control loop, with a falsifiable evaluation.
keywords:
  - self-evolving software
  - recursive self-improvement
  - autonomic computing
  - self-adaptive systems
  - AI platform engineering
  - self-hosting
  - automated program repair
  - requirements engineering
  - EARS
  - AI governance