Hypothesis
When agents are treated as first-class users of software — with negotiation, ownership and economy built into the runtime — coordination structures emerge that do not need a central orchestrator.
Problem
Today’s agent frameworks bolt agents onto human-shaped software: one orchestrator, a task queue, and brittle glue. That shape caps autonomy at the orchestrator’s imagination.
Current state
Open artifact published.
Methods
- Runtime design: relationship negotiation between agents
- Resource economics inside the runtime
- Byzantine agreement between untrusted nodes
- Recursive organization: groups folding into composite agents
Findings
- A working MIT-licensed runtime (Agent Native Universe) demonstrating negotiation, economy and recursive organization
- Fold/unfold of agent groups is expressible as a first-class runtime operation