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Design shared information substrates between agents by

Design shared information substrates between agents by specifying what each agent reads from and writes to, rather than granting unrestricted access to all information.

Why This Is a Principle

This is a principle derived from Extended Cognition Thesis (distributed cognition across external artifacts), Working Memory Capacity Limit (working memory limits requiring external structure), and Information and attention have an inverse relationship: a (information wealth creates attention poverty). It prescribes how to design shared state given these axioms—through curated, structured access rather than unrestricted pooling. It's actionable across many contexts (teams, AI systems, personal infrastructure) and not specific enough to be a rule.

Source Lessons

L-0506

Shared state between agents

When agents need to share information define clearly how that information flows.

L-0501

Multiple agents must coordinate to be effective

When you run several cognitive agents they need to work together not interfere with each other.

Connections

Derived From (6)

AxiomWorking Memory Capacity Limit AxiomExtended Cognition Thesis AxiomSchemas as Knowledge Organization Structures AxiomExpertise as Domain-Specific Schema Organization AxiomThe behavior of a system arises from its structure, not from AxiomInformation and attention have an inverse relationship: a

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