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Published by arXiv cs.MA (T1 source). The original is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11357.

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Research paper arguing that increasing individual AI agent capability does not automatically improve collective capability. It identifies four loci of collective failure—access/routing, admission/dependence, state maintenance/incentives, representation/action—and uses controlled experiments to show institutional structure helps when it repairs how usable public state is constructed, but loses advantage when signals are uninformative or stronger intelligence can perform the transformation directly.

Provides a diagnostic frame for deciding whether to invest in smarter agents or better coordination structures, grounded in controlled experiments rather than anecdote.

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