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Stigmergy, Not Orchestration: A Colony Architecture for Agent Systems
What ant colonies taught me about designing multi-agent knowledge systems — using this project's own over-built first attempt as the cautionary tale.
Graph Engineering
Treating agent systems as graphs — what the nodes are, what the edges carry, and which shape survives contact with a real task.
Sub-branches
Orchestration Graphs1 postNodes are agents or steps, edges are control flow. Fan-out, fan-in, handoffs, supervisors, and stigmergic alternatives to all of it.
Knowledge Graphs & GraphRAGnothing here yetEntities and relations as the retrieval substrate. Traversal instead of similarity, and when that trade is worth making.
Context Graphsnothing here yetWhat each node in a system is allowed to see. Assembly, compaction, and the shape of what gets handed down.