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188 articles · Published by MARIA OS

AGENTIC COMPANY SERIES

The blueprint for building an Agentic Company

Eight papers that form the complete theory-to-operations stack: why organizational judgment needs an OS, structural design, stability laws, algorithm architecture, mission-constrained optimization, survival optimization, workforce transition, and agent lifecycle management.

Series Thesis

Company Intelligence explains why the OS exists. Structure defines responsibility. Stability laws prove when governance holds. Algorithms make it executable. Mission constraints keep optimization aligned. Survival theory determines evolutionary direction. White-collar transition shows who moves first. VITAL keeps the whole system alive.

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IntelligenceFebruary 15, 2026|45 min readpublished

Metacognition in Agentic Companies: Why AI Systems Must Know What They Don't Know

Latent governance density, observable metacognitive coverage, and the stability bounds of self-governing enterprises

We formalize an agentic company as a graph-augmented constrained Markov decision process G_t = (A_t, E_t, S_t, Pi_t, R_t, D_t), distinguish latent governance density D_t from observable constrained-candidate coverage D_hat_t on router-generated Top-K actions, and define damping via kappa_t = kappa(D_hat_t). The exact local contraction condition is (1 - kappa_t) lambda_max(W_t) < 1, while the buffered operating envelope lambda_max(W_t) < 1 - kappa_t preserves adaptation headroom. Governance constraints thereby function as organizational metacognition: each constraint is a point where the system observes its own behavior. Planet-100 simulations validate that buffered role specialization emerges in the intermediate governance regime.

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ArchitectureFebruary 15, 2026|42 min readpublished

Doctor Architecture: Anomaly Detection as Enterprise Metacognition in MARIA OS

Dual-model anomaly detection, threshold engineering, gate integration, and real-time stability monitoring for autonomous agent systems

The Doctor system in MARIA OS implements organizational metacognition through dual-model anomaly detection, combining Isolation Forest for structural outlier detection and an Autoencoder for continuous deviation measurement. We detail the combined score A_combined = alpha * s(x) + (1 - alpha) * sigma(epsilon(x)), threshold design (soft throttle at 0.85, hard freeze at 0.92), and Gate Engine integration for dynamic governance control. We also define a stability guard that monitors exact loop gain g_t = (1 - D_t) lambda_max(A_t) together with the conservative buffer delta_buffer,t = 1 - D_t - lambda_max(A_t) in real time. Operational results show F1 = 0.94, mean detection latency of 2.3 decision cycles, and 99.7% prevention of cascading failures.

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TheoryFebruary 15, 2026|42 min readpublished

Human-AI Co-Evolution as a Coupled Dynamical System: Meta-Cognition Mediated Stability in Nonlinear Agent-Human Interactions

A formal dynamical-systems treatment of human-AI interaction stability and how metacognitive control helps reduce capability decay and trust instability

We model the human-AI interaction loop as a coupled dynamical system `X_t = (H_t, A_t)` and analyze stability under metacognition-mediated control through spectral-radius conditions on the coupled Jacobian. Simulations across 1,000 trajectories report 94.2% trust-band stability and 87.6% capability preservation versus uncontrolled baselines.

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TheoryFebruary 15, 2026|42 min readpublished

Human-AI Co-Evolution as a Constrained Optimal Control Problem: Designing Socially Adaptive Agentic Operating Systems

A rigorous optimal control framework for governing human-AI co-evolution under multi-objective cost functions, partial observability, and hard safety constraints

We reformulate human-AI co-evolution as a constrained optimal-control problem. By defining a multi-objective cost function over task quality, human capability preservation, trust stability, and risk suppression, and solving Bellman-style recursions under hard constraints, we characterize co-evolution policies that Meta Cognition can approximate in MARIA OS. We extend the framework to POMDP settings for partial observability of human cognitive states and derive conditions linked to long-run social stability.

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TheoryFebruary 15, 2026|42 min readpublished

Multi-Agent Societal Co-Evolution Model: Network Trust Dynamics and Phase Transitions in AI-Augmented Organizations

Extending dyadic human-AI co-evolution to societal-scale network dynamics with trust propagation, dependency contagion, phase transitions, and distributed social metacognition

Individual human-AI pair models miss emergent dynamics that appear when many agents interact on complex networks. This paper develops a societal co-evolution framework for trust cascades, dependency contagion, capability hollowing, and phase transitions in AI-augmented organizations, and introduces Social Metacognition as a distributed stabilization mechanism.

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TheoryFebruary 15, 2026|42 min readpublished

Institutional Design for Agentic Societies: Meta-Governance Theory and AI Constitutional Frameworks

From Enterprise Governance to AI Constitutions: How Institutional Economics and Meta-Governance Theory Stabilize Multi-Agent Societies

Multi-agent AI societies require more than individual metacognition: they also require institutional design. This article formalizes agentic-company governance, derives social objective functions for AI-human ecosystems, establishes the Speed Alignment Principle as a stability condition, and presents an AI-constitution model with revision rules. In simulations across 600 runs, adaptive institutional frameworks reduced spectral radius from 1.14 to 0.82 while maintaining audit scores above 0.85.

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COMPLETE INDEX

All Articles

Complete list of all 188 published articles. EN / JA bilingual index.

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188 articles

All articles reviewed and approved by the MARIA OS Editorial Pipeline.

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