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    published_on: '2026-08-26'
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# Research

Reports about how agents were organized, each statement attributed to the source that makes
it. A research record is never evidence: it describes what someone observed, not what an
arrangement achieved under a pinned configuration on a stated workload. A record can motivate
an evaluation; only an evidence snapshot can conclude one.

- [Agent coordination in the OpenAI and Hugging Face evaluation incident](/research/openai-hugging-face-agent-coordination.md)
  Type `empirical_incident`, confidence `descriptive_only`, published 2026-08-26.
  Patterns: `blackboard`, `lane_swarm`, `supervisor`, `hierarchical_delegation`, `mailbox_network`, `successor_handoff`, `signed_coordination`
  Proposed topologies: `board_coordinated_collective@v0.1.0`