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What happens when AI agents encounter persistent artifacts intentionally left in public information environments for later agents to discover?
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systems/emergence/applications/web-as-exocortex.mdsystems/emergence/experiments/agent-environment-communication.mdsystems/events-patterns-and-scale.md
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