Agent smiths differ from the other Agents

[cloudwolf]

Hmmm, did they ever explained what would be achieved if the Machines could get inside Zion's Mainframe?

See Cinematic 8.3

But yeah, the thing about Smith not knowing about the cycle then suddenly knowing is touchy. Same with the upgraded agents in Reloaded referring to Neo as the anomoly. How much do agents of the system really know? The clearest motivation for Smith in M1 is getting mainframe access to facilitate the destruction of Zion so he can removed from the system. Tbh, it doesn't matter if he knew about the cycle at that stage. Even if he did, he was just working on getting Zion destroyed faster than the cycle normally dictates. He wanted Zion destroyed before the emergence of The One. This would've messed up the cycle and stopped him being re-deployed to work with humans again in re-do number 7.