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agent-metacognition

1 MARIA OS blog articles tagged agent-metacognition, organized as a Bonginkan topic archive for search engines and LLM retrieval.

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Agentic Company Architecture

Research on human-agent organizations, delegation boundaries, role topology, and governed autonomy.

Multi-Agent Mathematics

Formal models for convergence, stability, game theory, graph dynamics, and multi-agent evaluation.

Evidence, RAG, and Knowledge Governance

Evidence bundles, retrieval architecture, Graph RAG, knowledge trust, and auditable reasoning pipelines.

Agentic R&D and Judgment Science

Research operations, simulation labs, judgment science, recursive improvement, and experimental AI governance.

IntelligenceMarch 8, 202630 min read

Capability Gap Detection: The Metacognitive Layer That Enables Self-Extending Agents

How agents recognize what they cannot do and trigger autonomous self-extension through formal gap analysis

Self-extending agents require a prerequisite that most architectures ignore: the ability to know what they do not know. This paper formalizes capability gap detection as a metacognitive layer that compares required capabilities against the agent's capability model, classifies detected gaps, prioritizes them by urgency and impact, and decides whether to synthesize, request, delegate, or escalate. We introduce the capability coverage metric, gap entropy measure, and multi-agent gap negotiation protocol. Experimental results show that agents with formal gap detection achieve 4.1x fewer silent failures and 2.8x faster self-extension compared to agents relying on runtime error detection.

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