Skyfall AI Releases MORPHEUS: A Persistent Enterprise Simulation Benchmark That Makes Continual Reinforcement Learning Necessary Under Structured Non-Stationarity

MORPHEUS is a persistent enterprise simulation platform designed to test how AI agents learn and adapt over time in environments that never reset, unlike traditional reinforcement learning benchmarks. It matters because real business operations do not reset between episodes, so agents must handle persistent consequences of past decisions and adapt as conditions shift unpredictably. The platform creates non-stationarity through two mechanisms: a failure injection engine that randomly inserts disruptions, and a configuration shift controller that changes conditions at fixed intervals. The research team evaluated four different learning algorithm families on two tasks and found that no single approach dominated across all scenarios, with most methods failing to adapt beyond the first configuration shift.