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Agent ecosystem health: the assessment and maintenance of a

Agent ecosystem health: the assessment and maintenance of a collection of interacting cognitive agents as a living system, evaluated across three dimensions - vigor (metabolic throughput and productivity), organization (structural coherence and information flow), and resilience (capacity to absorb disturbance and maintain function)

Why This Is a Definition

This definition precisely establishes the semantic boundary of 'agent ecosystem health' by identifying it as a system-level assessment practice rather than individual agent evaluation. It specifies the three distinguishing dimensions (vigor, organization, resilience) that constitute the evaluative framework, distinguishing it from simple agent management and connecting it to established ecological and organizational health models.

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Agent ecosystem health

Your set of agents is an ecosystem — it needs balance and periodic assessment.

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AxiomExtended Cognition Thesis AxiomHindsight Bias and Calibration Necessity AxiomTwo-Level Metacognitive Architecture AxiomExpertise Transforms Perceptual Chunking AxiomComplementary Learning Systems Architecture AxiomDual Coding Theory: Verbal and Visual Channels AxiomConversational Memory Asymmetry From Production Planning AxiomUltradian and Circadian Cognitive Rhythms AxiomAttention as Gate to Conscious Perception AxiomNeural Plasticity Enables Lifelong Automatic Learning AxiomPatterns Exist in Hierarchical Logical Levels AxiomSystematic Overconfidence Taxonomy AxiomEmotion as Systematic Cognitive Modulator AxiomGlucose-Cognition Dependency Threshold AxiomBias Blind Spot Asymmetry AxiomCultural Transmission Through Shared Intentionality AxiomCognition Operates Through Dual Processing Systems AxiomLooping Effects of Human Classification AxiomAutomatic Pattern Perception AxiomHierarchical Chunking Expands Capacity AxiomDunbar's Number Limits Stable Relationships AxiomConstrual Level Effects on Perception AxiomFlexible Context-Dependent Categorization AxiomPeople interpret failure as either evidence about their AxiomPsychological flexibility (the ability to adapt behavior to AxiomHuman beings make decisions under conditions of incomplete AxiomExpert performance in complex domains requires deliberate AxiomHumans exhibit automation complacency — reducing monitoring AxiomRegulatory flexibility—the ability to shift between

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