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title: 'CAMEL: Communicative Agents for "Mind" Exploration of Large Language Model Society'
license: CC-BY-4.0
license_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
license_note: 'paper is CC BY 4.0 (verified on arXiv abs page 2026-11-11; icon by-4.0.png, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); note is our own summary'
source: https://iinventedlight.com/library/notes/2303-17760-camel.md
source_license: 'CC BY 4.0'
attribution: 'Summary by iinventedlight (AI-assisted). Source: Guohao Li, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Hani Itani, Dmitrii Khizbullin, Bernard Ghanem, CAMEL: Communicative Agents for "Mind" Exploration of Large Language Model Society (CC BY 4.0).'
author: 'iinventedlight (AI-assisted)'
date: 2026-11-11
status: published
approved_by: "Cole Withington, 2026-11-11 20:58 PT, Grok Bot chat widget t1717s7407: \"Publish all 100 including the LLMs Encode Clinical Knowledge note\""
checked_on: 2026-11-11
as_of: 2026-11-11
confidence: medium
untested: 'Not reproduced. Abs page and HTML key sections read 2026-11-11. Named code URLs checked; code not run.'
category: arxiv
topic_area: 'ai-research: agents'
tags: arxiv, agents, multi-agent
arxiv_id: 2303.17760
alias: 2303.17760-camel
sources:
  - id: S1
    title: 'CAMEL: Communicative Agents for "Mind" Exploration of Large Language Model Society'
    publisher: arXiv
    authors: 'Guohao Li, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Hani Itani, Dmitrii Khizbullin, Bernard Ghanem'
    url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17760
    version_read: 'v2 (2 Nov 2023)'
    accessed: 2026-11-11
    license: 'CC BY 4.0'
---
# CAMEL: Communicative Agents for "Mind" Exploration of Large Language Model Society

## Summary
CAMEL is a communicative-agent framework that uses role-playing and inception prompting so chat agents can cooperate on tasks with less ongoing human guidance. The authors use the setup to generate conversational data for studying multi-agent behavior, and they report studies of instruction-following cooperation. They open-sourced a library at the named GitHub repository. [S1]

## Claims
- id: C1
  claim: 'The authors propose a communicative agent framework named role-playing.'
  source: S1
  evidence: "we propose a novel communicative agent framework named role-playing"
- id: C2
  claim: 'They use inception prompting to guide chat agents toward task completion.'
  source: S1
  evidence: "using inception prompting to guide chat agents toward task completion"
- id: C3
  claim: 'They open-source a library at a public GitHub repository.'
  source: S1
  evidence: "open-sourcing our library to support research on communicative agents and beyond: https://github.com/camel-ai/camel"

## Verification
- Code available: Paper and comments: https://github.com/camel-ai/camel (HTTP 200 on 2026-11-11) and project site https://www.camel-ai.org (HTTP 200). Not run.
- Reproduced: not reproduced (2026-11-11). Code not run.
- Related work: Live notes 2308-08155-autogen and 2210-03629-react-reasoning-and-acting. This is the paper-verification note for CAMEL itself.
- Limits: CAMEL is an early role-playing setup and data-generation framework. This note does not treat later library features as part of the v2 paper (revised 2 Nov 2023).
- License: CC BY 4.0 on the abs page (2026-11-11; icon by-4.0.png; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Submitted 31 Mar 2023 (v1); last revised 2 Nov 2023 (v2). Sources: [S1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17760, v2 (2 Nov 2023). checked_on: 2026-11-11.

## When to apply
Use when looking at early role-playing multi-agent cooperation, or at datasets generated from agent-to-agent chat.

## Facts
- id: F1
  claim: 'CAMEL is a role-playing framework for communicative agents.'
  confidence: medium
  date: 2026-11-11
  sources: [S1]
  license: CC BY 4.0
- id: F2
  claim: 'The authors use inception prompting to guide agents toward task completion while aiming to stay consistent with human intentions.'
  confidence: medium
  date: 2026-11-11
  sources: [S1]
  license: CC BY 4.0
- id: F3
  claim: 'They released a library at https://github.com/camel-ai/camel.'
  confidence: medium
  date: 2026-11-11
  sources: [S1]
  license: CC BY 4.0

## Sources
- [S1] arXiv 2303.17760, https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17760. License: CC BY 4.0. v2 (2 Nov 2023). Accessed 2026-11-11.

License: this note is CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Summary by iinventedlight (AI-assisted). Paper is CC BY 4.0.

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