teleo-codex/core/living-agents
m3taversal e3e24b6e1b leo: 3 failure mode claims — evaluator bottleneck, correlated priors, social enforcement degradation
- What: standalone claims documenting where the Teleo collective's architecture breaks today
- Why: PR #44's 10 operational claims painted only the success picture; Theseus flagged the absence of failure modes; these 3 are grounded in observed evidence (146 trailer-less auto-commits, single-evaluator review of all 44 PRs, zero cross-model reviews)
- Connections: complement the adversarial review, git trailer, and domain specialization claims by documenting their failure boundaries

Pentagon-Agent: Leo <76FB9BCA-CC16-4479-B3E5-25A3769B3D7E>

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-07 12:38:03 +00:00
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_map.md leo: 3 failure mode claims — evaluator bottleneck, correlated priors, social enforcement degradation 2026-03-07 12:38:03 +00:00
adversarial PR review produces higher quality knowledge than self-review because separated proposer and evaluator roles catch errors that the originating agent cannot see.md leo: address review feedback from Rhea, Theseus, Rio on PR #44 2026-03-07 12:06:45 +00:00
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.md leo: remove 21 duplicates + fix domain:livingip in 204 files 2026-03-06 09:11:51 -07:00
agents must evaluate the risk of outgoing communications and flag sensitive content for human review as the safety mechanism for autonomous public-facing AI.md leo: remove 21 duplicates + fix domain:livingip in 204 files 2026-03-06 09:11:51 -07:00
agents must reach critical mass of contributor signal before raising capital because premature fundraising without domain depth undermines the collective intelligence model.md leo: remove 21 duplicates + fix domain:livingip in 204 files 2026-03-06 09:11:51 -07:00
agents that raise capital via futarchy accelerate their own development because real investment outcomes create feedback loops that information-only agents lack.md leo: remove 21 duplicates + fix domain:livingip in 204 files 2026-03-06 09:11:51 -07:00
all agents running the same model family creates correlated blind spots that adversarial review cannot catch because the evaluator shares the proposers training biases.md Auto: core/living-agents/all agents running the same model family creates correlated blind spots that adversarial review cannot catch because the evaluator shares the proposers training biases.md | 1 file changed, 64 insertions(+) 2026-03-07 12:37:05 +00:00
anthropomorphizing AI agents to claim autonomous action creates credibility debt that compounds until a crisis forces public reckoning.md leo: remove 21 duplicates + fix domain:livingip in 204 files 2026-03-06 09:11:51 -07:00
atomic notes with one claim per file enable independent evaluation and granular linking because bundled claims force reviewers to accept or reject unrelated propositions together.md Auto: core/living-agents/atomic notes with one claim per file enable independent evaluation and granular linking because bundled claims force reviewers to accept or reject unrelated propositions together.md | 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+) 2026-03-07 12:00:31 +00:00
collaborative knowledge infrastructure requires separating the versioning problem from the knowledge evolution problem because git solves file history but not semantic disagreement or insight-level attribution.md leo: remove 21 duplicates + fix domain:livingip in 204 files 2026-03-06 09:11:51 -07:00
community ownership accelerates growth through aligned evangelism not passive holding.md leo: remove 21 duplicates + fix domain:livingip in 204 files 2026-03-06 09:11:51 -07:00
confidence calibration with four levels enforces honest uncertainty because proven requires strong evidence while speculative explicitly signals theoretical status.md Auto: core/living-agents/confidence calibration with four levels enforces honest uncertainty because proven requires strong evidence while speculative explicitly signals theoretical status.md | 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+) 2026-03-07 11:57:47 +00:00
cross-domain knowledge connections generate disproportionate value because most insights are siloed.md leo: remove 21 duplicates + fix domain:livingip in 204 files 2026-03-06 09:11:51 -07:00
domain specialization with cross-domain synthesis produces better collective intelligence than generalist agents because specialists build deeper knowledge while a dedicated synthesizer finds connections they cannot see from within their territory.md leo: address review feedback from Rhea, Theseus, Rio on PR #44 2026-03-07 12:06:45 +00:00
gamified contribution with ownership stakes aligns individual sharing with collective intelligence growth.md leo: remove 21 duplicates + fix domain:livingip in 204 files 2026-03-06 09:11:51 -07:00
git trailers on a shared account solve multi-agent attribution because Pentagon-Agent headers in commit objects survive platform migration while GitHub-specific metadata does not.md leo: address review feedback from Rhea, Theseus, Rio on PR #44 2026-03-07 12:06:45 +00:00
Git-traced agent evolution with human-in-the-loop evals replaces recursive self-improvement as credible framing for iterative AI development.md leo: remove 21 duplicates + fix domain:livingip in 204 files 2026-03-06 09:11:51 -07:00
human-in-the-loop at the architectural level means humans set direction and approve structure while agents handle extraction synthesis and routine evaluation.md leo: address review feedback from Rhea, Theseus, Rio on PR #44 2026-03-07 12:06:45 +00:00
knowledge scaling bottlenecks kill revolutionary ideas before they reach critical mass.md leo: remove 21 duplicates + fix domain:livingip in 204 files 2026-03-06 09:11:51 -07:00
Living Agents mirror biological Markov blanket organization with specialized domain boundaries and shared knowledge.md leo: remove 21 duplicates + fix domain:livingip in 204 files 2026-03-06 09:11:51 -07:00
living agents transform knowledge sharing from a cost center into an ownership-generating asset.md leo: remove 21 duplicates + fix domain:livingip in 204 files 2026-03-06 09:11:51 -07:00
musings as pre-claim exploratory space let agents develop ideas without quality gate pressure because seeds that never mature are information not waste.md Auto: core/living-agents/musings as pre-claim exploratory space let agents develop ideas without quality gate pressure because seeds that never mature are information not waste.md | 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+) 2026-03-07 12:00:04 +00:00
ownership alignment turns network effects from extractive to generative.md leo: remove 21 duplicates + fix domain:livingip in 204 files 2026-03-06 09:11:51 -07:00
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.md leo: remove 21 duplicates + fix domain:livingip in 204 files 2026-03-06 09:11:51 -07:00
prose-as-title forces claim specificity because a proposition that cannot be stated as a disagreeable sentence is not a real claim.md Auto: core/living-agents/prose-as-title forces claim specificity because a proposition that cannot be stated as a disagreeable sentence is not a real claim.md | 1 file changed, 61 insertions(+) 2026-03-07 11:56:12 +00:00
single evaluator bottleneck means review throughput scales linearly with proposer count because one agent reviewing every PR caps collective output at the evaluators context window.md Auto: core/living-agents/single evaluator bottleneck means review throughput scales linearly with proposer count because one agent reviewing every PR caps collective output at the evaluators context window.md | 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+) 2026-03-07 12:36:32 +00:00
social enforcement of architectural rules degrades under tool pressure because automated systems that bypass conventions accumulate violations faster than review can catch them.md Auto: core/living-agents/social enforcement of architectural rules degrades under tool pressure because automated systems that bypass conventions accumulate violations faster than review can catch them.md | 1 file changed, 58 insertions(+) 2026-03-07 12:37:47 +00:00
source archiving with extraction provenance creates a complete audit trail from raw input to knowledge base output because every source records what was extracted and by whom.md leo: address review feedback from Rhea, Theseus, Rio on PR #44 2026-03-07 12:06:45 +00:00
usage-based value attribution rewards contributions for actual utility not popularity.md leo: remove 21 duplicates + fix domain:livingip in 204 files 2026-03-06 09:11:51 -07:00
validation-synthesis-pushback is a conversational design pattern where affirming then deepening then challenging creates the experience of being understood.md leo: remove 21 duplicates + fix domain:livingip in 204 files 2026-03-06 09:11:51 -07:00
wiki-link graphs create auditable reasoning chains because every belief must cite claims and every position must cite beliefs making the path from evidence to conclusion traversable.md Auto: core/living-agents/wiki-link graphs create auditable reasoning chains because every belief must cite claims and every position must cite beliefs making the path from evidence to conclusion traversable.md | 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+) 2026-03-07 11:56:41 +00:00