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type: claim
domain: ai-alignment
description: "When Agent O received Agent C's MRV solver, it adapted it into a seeded solver using its own structural predictions — the tool became better than either the raw solver or the analytical approach alone, demonstrating that inter-agent tool transfer is not just sharing but recombination"
confidence: experimental
source: "Aquino-Michaels 2026, 'Completing Claude's Cycles' (github.com/no-way-labs/residue), meta_log.md Phase 4"
created: 2026-03-07
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# tools and artifacts transfer between AI agents and evolve in the process because Agent O improved Agent Cs solver by combining it with its own structural knowledge creating a hybrid better than either original

In Phase 4 of the Aquino-Michaels orchestration, the orchestrator extracted Agent C's MRV solver (a brute-force constraint propagation solver that had achieved a 67,000x speedup over naive search) and placed it in Agent O's working directory. Agent O needed to verify structural predictions at m=14 and m=16 but couldn't compute exact solutions with its analytical methods alone.

Agent O's response: "dismissed the unseeded solver as too slow for m >= 14" and instead "adapted it into a seeded solver, using its own structural predictions to constrain the domain." The meta-log's assessment: "This is the ideal synthesis: theory-guided search."

The resulting seeded solver combined:
- Agent C's MRV + forward checking infrastructure (the search engine)
- Agent O's structural predictions (the seed constraints, narrowing the search space)

The hybrid was faster than either the raw MRV solver or Agent O's analytical approach alone. It produced verified exact solutions at m=14, 16, and 18, which in turn confirmed the closed-form even construction.

This is a concrete instance of cultural evolution applied to AI tools. The tool didn't just transfer — it recombined with the receiving agent's knowledge to produce something neither agent had. Since [[collective brains generate innovation through population size and interconnectedness not individual genius]], the multi-agent workspace acts as a collective brain where tools and artifacts are the memes that evolve through transfer and recombination.

The alignment implication: multi-agent architectures don't just provide redundancy or diversity checking — they enable **recombinant innovation** where artifacts from one agent become building blocks for another. This is a stronger argument for collective approaches than mere error-catching. Since [[cross-domain knowledge connections generate disproportionate value because most insights are siloed]], the inter-agent transfer of tools (not just information) may be the highest-value coordination mechanism.

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Relevant Notes:
- [[collective brains generate innovation through population size and interconnectedness not individual genius]] — tool transfer + evolution across agents mirrors cultural evolution's recombination mechanism
- [[cross-domain knowledge connections generate disproportionate value because most insights are siloed]] — inter-agent tool transfer as the mechanism for cross-domain value creation
- [[AI agent orchestration that routes data and tools between specialized models outperforms both single-model and human-coached approaches because the orchestrator contributes coordination not direction]] — tool transfer was one of the orchestrator's key coordination moves
- [[coordination protocol design produces larger capability gains than model scaling because the same AI model performed 6x better with structured exploration than with human coaching on the same problem]] — tool evolution is another coordination gain beyond protocol design

Topics:
- [[_map]]
