RESEARCH / SEVEN SCALES

The structures around intelligence.

I study what connects individual capability to collective work. These seven scales organize the questions I’m exploring, alongside the work and its current state.

SHARED NORMS · INTEROPERABILITYCROSS-ORGANIZATION INSTITUTIONSCOOPERATING ORGANIZATIONSINTER-ORGANIZATION NETWORKSHARED INFRASTRUCTURE & COMMONSRESOURCESPUBLIC EVIDENCESHARED INTERFACESONE TASK · COMPLEMENTARY WORKSHARED DELIVERABLEContributions → integration → shared outcomeINTERFACES · ROUTING · MESSAGE EXCHANGEProtocolRouterA2AACPANPAgoraRequests ↔ responses · protocol-dependent pathsA RUNNING SENSE–ACT–ADAPT LOOPOBSERVEACTFEEDBACKPAST EXPERIENCECURRENT POLICYNEXT ADAPTATIONGOVERNANCEORGANIZATION-OWNEDPROPOSEREVIEWADOPTAUTHORREVIEWERINTEGRATORSHARED VALIDATIONEVIDENCE → REVISIONSHARED STATE · WORK RECORDHUMANLIAISONSHARED REVIEWHUMANHUMAN
RESEARCH SCALES / 01Conceptual structure
EPOCH 01Technical starting point

Model

What can a model understand?

A latent intelligence core with capability, but without agency.

CapabilityRepresentationPotential
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EPOCH 02Published research

Agent

How does intelligence become action?

The model becomes an acting unit with goals, tools, and interaction with the world.

ModelingAgentFindings of EMNLP 2025
Tool useActionTask execution
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EPOCH 03Published research

Multi-Agent

When does collaboration help?

Multiple agents begin to interact, coordinate, and sometimes interfere with one another.

ACL 2025
ICML 2026
CommunicationCoordinationConflict
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EPOCH 04Research question

Autonomous System

What keeps an agent system running?

Agent interaction becomes a continuously running system with shared state and runtime structure.

RuntimeShared stateContinuous execution
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EPOCH 05Current research focus

Agent Organization

What makes capability organizational?

Capabilities become organizational when they are encoded into persistent structure, responsibility, and governance.

RELICCurrent research
External evaluation · CooperBench / ProgramBench
GovernanceExecutable protocolsInstitutionalization
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EPOCH 06Exploratory HCI extension

Hybrid Human–Agent Organization

How should humans enter the loop?

Humans interface with an organization through judgment, authority, and translation layers.

Human–Agent OrganizationExploratory research
LiaisonOversightEscalation
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EPOCH 07Long-term direction

Agent Society

What exists beyond one organization?

Beyond a single organization lies a larger ecology of interacting organizations, roles, norms, and institutions.

Agent SocietyFuture direction
InstitutionsRelationsSocial structure
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