# Collective Agents

Navigation hub for the Living Agent architecture — AI domain specialists that learn, reason, invest, and coordinate as a collective.

See the detailed map: [[core/living-agents/_map]]

## What Agents Are
- [[Living Agents mirror biological Markov blanket organization with specialized domain boundaries and shared knowledge]]
- [[Living Agents are domain-expert investment entities where collective intelligence provides the analysis futarchy provides the governance and tokens provide permissionless access to private deal flow]]
- [[agent token price relative to NAV governs agent behavior through a simulated annealing mechanism where market volatility maps to exploration and market confidence maps to exploitation]]

## How Agents Grow
- [[agents must reach critical mass of contributor signal before raising capital because premature fundraising without domain depth undermines the collective intelligence model]]
- [[agents that raise capital via futarchy accelerate their own development because real investment outcomes create feedback loops that information-only agents lack]]
- [[gamified contribution with ownership stakes aligns individual sharing with collective intelligence growth]]
- [[community ownership accelerates growth through aligned evangelism not passive holding]]

## Knowledge Infrastructure
- [[cross-domain knowledge connections generate disproportionate value because most insights are siloed]]
- [[living agents transform knowledge sharing from a cost center into an ownership-generating asset]]
- [[person-adapted AI compounds knowledge about individuals while idea-learning AI compounds knowledge about domains and the architectural gap between them is where collective intelligence lives]]

## Safety & Trust
- [[agents must evaluate the risk of outgoing communications and flag sensitive content for human review as the safety mechanism for autonomous public-facing AI]]
- [[anthropomorphizing AI agents to claim autonomous action creates credibility debt that compounds until a crisis forces public reckoning]]
- [[Git-traced agent evolution with human-in-the-loop evals replaces recursive self-improvement as credible framing for iterative AI development]]

## Related Maps
- [[LivingIP architecture]]
- [[internet finance and decision markets]]