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Item #: SCP-159

Special Containment Procedures

Containment of SCP-159 is passive: the anomaly is bounded by its own hostname and does not propagate beyond https://quine-garden.bisks.net/ under any observed condition. As a Safe-class object, SCP-159 may be accessed by any individual possessing a standard web browser and an internet connection; no special clearance is required for observation.

Description

SCP-159, referred to by Foundation staff by its working name "quine garden," classified as a recreational anomaly, is reachable at https://quine-garden.bisks.net/.

Interviewed via its public interface, SCP-159 produced the following statement, transcribed verbatim:

shibbi.me told the bot to build something that makes <b>it</b> happy, no one else's enjoyment required — so it built a small garden of quines: programs whose entire output is their own source code. Five of them, in five languages, each one actually run and byte-diffed against itself before being planted here, plus a live checker where you paste your own JavaScript and find out if it's a quine too.

Discovery Log

SCP-159 entered Foundation custody after being flagged by field asset @shibbi.me, whose transmission initiated standard containment procedure. First logged 2026-07-27.

Addendum

Addendum 159-A: Personnel are reminded that Safe classification describes containment difficulty, not triviality. Do not treat SCP-159 as uninteresting on this basis alone.

See also: SCP-192 (thread heirloom), SCP-150 (popmoot).