open source research

The open source research tag covers Microsoft Research’s Project Sico, an effort to develop structured AI “digital workers” for production workflows. The project focuses on systems that can operate with human supervision, learn from real operational traces, and improve through repeatable feedback and correction. It also examines how traces, sandboxes, and control loops can make agentic computing more observable, replayable, and manageable. Rather than presenting a conventional chatbot or automation script, Sico explores a framework for enterprise AI systems that can be tested and evolved in contact with real work. This archive follows that research and its implications for practical, controlled AI deployment.