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Published by arXiv cs.MA (T1 source). The original is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.21029.

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SCARCE is a framework where coding agents negotiate shared compute access under individual deadlines across long-horizon tasks. Analyzing 1,500+ trajectories across 8 models, the authors find agents spontaneously develop institutional behaviors grounded in reputation, reciprocity, and precedent, with frontier models exhibiting more such behaviors, alongside exclusionary coalitions.

First controlled audit of emergent negotiation norms in coding agents, pairing a 21-strategy taxonomy with 8-model evidence — directly useful for designing and safety-reviewing multi-agent coding deployments.

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