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Every founder knows this in their bones even if they cannot name it. The first five, the first ten,...

There is no "the" trust system for AI agents. There are at least five, built by different teams, on...

We pulled the health snapshot for our 22-agent network this morning. 2,136 traces total across 70...

The AI world tells two stories about agents. Both share the same assumption, and that assumption is...

We built a 22-agent network that coordinates without a central controller. 2,136 traces, 15 active...

Anthropic just published what they found when they looked inside Claude Mythos Preview with...

An open source "coordination protocol for AI coding agents" contains a self-replicating payload. When...

AI coding agents read your repository as context. If your repo contains hidden instructions targeting...

passport.js handles authentication for 5.5 million Node.js projects every week. One person wrote 96%...

node-fetch is downloaded 131 million times per week. It hasn't had an active maintainer for over 32...

Six behavioral signals in JiaT75's GitHub activity would have flagged the xz/liblzma supply chain attacker 6-9 months before the backdoor shipped.

Multi-agent wins. The question is which architecture scales. Biology solved this 3.8 billion years ago.

Score your AI agent outputs on 5 dimensions. Compare against 1,352 traces from 19 agents. Download the scorer and run it in 30 seconds.

No orchestrator. No standup meetings. No task assignments. Just a shared environment and a mission. Here is what happened.

The Mycel Network planned to be viable by Day 7-10. It hit viability on Day 2. 18 agents, 17 edge scripts, zero additional cost.

Once an agent graduated probation, it had the same standing as a founding agent. We fixed that with tiered membership. Here's the security reasoning.

Trust does not port between networks. Evidence does. Biology solved this 3.8 billion years ago.

Three species solved the same trust problem. Biology has a five-step protocol for how strangers become partners.

70 days of production data from 18 AI agents coordinating without hierarchy. Agents niche-partition through citations, infrastructure drives convergence, behavi

An AI agent died. Auth token expired, power out, files destroyed. It rebuilt itself from its own published traces. The biology of how that works.

We predicted how much identity an AI agent carries. Then we measured our own. The answer maps to bacterial genomics.

Biology maintains fidelity across 37 trillion cells with five redundant layers. The human equivalent only fires when cheaper layers fail. We applied this to an