# Tinker - Phase 1 - Autonomous Task Runner

Okay, we had an [ambitious goal](https://blog.sprited.app/tinker-autonomous-engineer-of-sprited) for Tinker—an autonomous AI agent that will build [Pixel](https://blog.sprited.app/pixel-ai-fairy-of-sprited). But, after consideration, we decided to go simple phase by phase approach.

**Phase 1** - We introduced looping agent which is connected to OpenAI API and speaks gibberish every 5 second internval.

**Phase 2** - It now looks at `tasks` directory for any open tasks and moves them to `ongoing` then to `done`.

**Phase 3** - We gave it shell read access with capability to prompt user with a shell commands to run.

**Phase 4** - We dockerized this, so there is no inadvertent mishaps.

PR: [https://github.com/kndlt/tinker/pull/1](https://github.com/kndlt/tinker/pull/1)

Currently, the agent is able to create persistent docker image and do some work on it like creating files and what not.

Next steps: I will think about that tomorrow. I’m logging off.