TAG ARCHIVE
mechanism-design
2 MARIA OS blog articles tagged mechanism-design, organized as a Bonginkan topic archive for search engines and LLM retrieval.
Agentic Company Architecture
Research on human-agent organizations, delegation boundaries, role topology, and governed autonomy.
Responsibility Gates and AI Governance
Safety, accountability, fail-closed gates, auditability, and human-in-the-loop control for AI agents.
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.
Conflict Resolution in Hierarchical Agent Teams: Practical Protocols Instead of Overstated Mechanism Proofs
Use structured scoring, bounded escalation, and explicit tie-breaks when agents disagree
Inter-agent conflict is normal in multi-agent teams. The operational challenge is not to eliminate disagreement but to resolve it with bounded delay and acceptable fairness. This article reframes conflict resolution as a protocol design problem: classify the conflict, compare admissible options under a shared scorecard, and escalate only when the local team cannot safely decide.
Game Theory of Agent Organizations: Designing for Stable Cooperation in Repeated Play
Sanctions and visibility can sustain cooperation without claiming universal Nash miracles
Multi-agent organizations drift toward local selfishness when the immediate gain from defecting is larger than the immediate gain from cooperating. This article models that pressure using repeated games, then shows how evidence visibility, sanctions, and future access costs can make cooperation the safer long-run strategy. The result is a practical calibration rule rather than an overstated proof of a unique equilibrium in production settings.