A personality mannequin datamined from Grand Theft Auto 5’s supply code ‘might truly be Agent’s protagonist’, based on on-line sleuth

Rockstar Video games’ cancelled open world sport Agent is likely one of the extra mysterious parts of the Grand Theft Auto 6 developer’s historical past. Initially revealed again in 2007, Agent was a comparatively high-profile venture for years, however by no means confirmed a lot past the odd little bit of idea artwork, finally vanishing from Rockstar’s web site in 2021.

Extra details about Agent has appeared lately, nonetheless. Dan Houser just lately defined the sport went by means of “about 5 completely different iterations” and that it by no means got here collectively as a result of open world video games and tightly crafted spy thrillers do not combine. Now, an information miner believes they’ve uncovered just a little extra data on Agent by way of Grand Theft Auto 5’s supply code, particularly the id of its principal character.

As noticed by Rockstar reporter BenTech on X (by way of Kotaku) the story truly begins in Might 2025, when a member of GTAForums named Krierra posted a collection of character fashions they’d unearthed from Grand Theft Auto 5’s supply code, which leaked again in 2023. Krierra claimed that these had been all characters from Agent. But other than some sporadic debate about this level from different posters, no one appears to have taken a lot discover.

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Till final week, that’s, when one other consumer going by XanaBax did some correct digging into the identities of the characters. XanaBax instantly dismissed three of the 4 characters as being from Agent, declaring that two are Grand Theft Auto 5 NPCs, whereas one other originates in Grand Theft Auto 4’s enlargement The Ballad of Homosexual Tony. However XanaBax says the remaining mannequin “might truly be Agent’s protagonist.”

XanaBax’s reasoning relies upon the truth that the primary node within the folder hierarchy during which the mannequin was discovered is known as “participant”, alongside the truth that the folder itself is known as ‘Jimmy’, the codename of Agent. Along with this, the mannequin is seen in some photographs from the portfolio of a former Rockstar setting artist who labored on Agent.

Digging just a little deeper, Xanabax additionally found the XMD filename for the character mannequin contains the phrase “NorthRig”, implying that it was developed at Rockstar North, and is dated to June 2009, which places it within the window between GTA 4 and Grand Theft Auto 5 when Agent was in energetic improvement. The mannequin itself can also be partly based mostly upon the mannequin for Grand Theft Auto 4’s protagonist Niko Bellic, utilizing “roughly” the identical UV map for Niko’s head, based on XanaBax.

Agent is not the one unrealised Rockstar venture we have found extra about recently. Final September, Dan Houser additionally revealed that the studio’s deliberate sequel to Bully did not occur attributable to “bandwidth points” inside administration, telling IGN that “when you’ve bought a small lead inventive group and a small senior management crew, you simply cannot do all of the tasks you need.”