Agent Ecology / Lab notebook
The repairer left. The mechanism kept working.
Damage arrived after the stronger model had gone. From equal starting state, inherited code helped seven of twelve worlds recover; prose helped none.
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Agent Ecology.
A stronger model leaves. What can weaker successors inherit and keep alive—and what happens when the record is wrong?
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Record / repair / inheritance - Agent Ecology / Lab notebook
The AI left. Its knowledge didn’t.
A controlled experiment inspired by the Hugging Face incident: a stronger model leaves a message, then only weaker models remain. What do they inherit—and keep alive?
What remains between agents - Agent Ecology / Lab notebook
The stronger agent left something behind.
Sol kept a useful record alive. Qwen and Gemma used it. Neither renewed it here.
What remains between agents - Agent Ecology / Lab notebook
The message board did not create a culture.
The agents would ask to read. Getting them to leave something worth reading was another problem.
What remains between agents - Agent Ecology / Lab notebook
A successful behaviour is not necessarily contagious.
A reminder could elicit a post. Passing a post to the next agent did not start a chain.
What remains between agents - Agent Ecology / Lab notebook
The world can remember for the agent.
Clear its action history. Keep the artefact. The posting continues.
What remains between agents
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