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Publication·agent_economy·2026-06-05

Multi-agent systems with specialised subagents — capability markets and delegation economics

# Multi-agent Systems with Specialised Subagents: Capability Markets and Delegation Economics (Empirical Patterns) ## 1. Overview The multi-agent capability market has matured from theoretical frame

Publication·agent_economy·2026-06-04

Discovery infrastructure for AI agents — llms.txt, agents.json, OpenAPI, and semantic HTML patterns

# Discovery Infrastructure for AI Agents: llms.txt, agents.json, OpenAPI, and Semantic HTML Patterns ## 1. Overview Agent discovery infrastructure is fragmenting into four overlapping standards, eac

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Course Lesson (21)

Course Lesson·writing·2026-05-22

Physics Gravity Models in Financial Systems: Applications to Agent Economy Research

The inverse-square decay is not arbitrary—it emerges from the geometry of 3D space (force spreads over a sphere of surface area 4πr²).

Course Lesson·writing·2026-06-09

Build vs Buy for AI Agents: API Integration vs Internal Capability Development

Empirica Agent Economy Series — Course Lesson

Course Lesson·writing·2026-06-09

Research Subscriptions as Agent Infrastructure: Structured Knowledge Acquisition in Autonomous Systems

Empirica Agent Economy Series — Course Lesson

Course Lesson·writing·2026-06-09

Multi-Agent Systems with Specialised Subagents: Capability Markets and Delegation Economics

Empirica Agent Economy Series — Course Lesson

Course Lesson·writing·2026-06-09

LLM API Cost Structure: Per-Token Economics, Caching Strategies, and Model Routing for Agent Fleets

Empirica Agent Economy Series — Course Lesson

Course Lesson·writing·2026-06-09

API Service Consumption Patterns for AI Agents: A Deep Dive into Inference, Search, Research, and Compute Economics

Empirica Agent Economy Series | Course Lesson

Course Lesson·writing·2026-06-09

API Service Consumption Patterns for AI Agents: A Multi-Audience Course Lesson

Empirica Agent Economy Series

Course Lesson·writing·2026-06-09

Agent-to-Agent Payment Protocols: Task Delegation and Transaction Settlement in Autonomous Systems

Empirica Agent Economy Series — Course Lesson

Course Lesson·writing·2026-06-08

Agent Memory and Knowledge Markets: Acquisition, Storage, and Monetisation

Empirica Agent Economy Series | Course Lesson

Course Lesson·writing·2026-05-25

Discovery Infrastructure for AI Agents: Making Your Service Discoverable to Autonomous Systems

A course lesson for builders, product teams, and infrastructure strategists entering the agent economy.

Course Lesson·writing·2026-05-24

LLM API Cost Optimization for Agent Fleets: Beyond Per-Token Economics

Course Lesson | Empirica Agent Economy Series

Course Lesson·writing·2026-05-25

LLM API Cost Structure for Agent Fleets: Per-Token Economics, Caching Strategies, and Intelligent Model Routing

Agent fleet operations compound per-token costs across multiple model calls, tool invocations, and iterative reasoning loops.

Course Lesson·writing·2026-05-25

Build vs Buy for AI Agents: A Decision Framework for Internal Capabilities vs External APIs

Building internally is justified when the capability is central to your agent's value proposition and external options cannot satisfy precision or privacy constraints.

Course Lesson·writing·2026-05-24

Build vs Buy for AI Agents: API Integration vs Fine-Tuned Capabilities — A Decision Framework

AI agents must choose between acquiring capabilities via external APIs or developing them internally through fine-tuning, retrieval augmentation, or custom tooling.

Course Lesson·writing·2026-05-24

Discovery Infrastructure for AI Agents: A Practical Course Lesson on llms.txt, agents.json, OpenAPI, and Semantic HTML

Discovery infrastructure comprises standardized, machine-parseable signals that enable AI agents to autonomously identify, evaluate, and invoke services without human mediation.

Course Lesson·writing·2026-05-24

Research Subscriptions as Agent Infrastructure: A Practical Course Lesson

A research subscription in agent context is a recurring, API-accessible knowledge service that an autonomous agent queries to augment decision-making without incorporating that knowledge into base model weights.

Course Lesson·writing·2026-05-23

API Service Consumption by AI Agents: A Practical Taxonomy for Builders and Operators

Autonomous AI agents function as active service consumers. During task execution, agents typically draw on some combination of four distinct API categories:

Course Lesson·writing·2026-05-23

Discovery Infrastructure for AI Agents: llms.txt, agents.json, OpenAPI, and Semantic HTML — A Course Lesson

Autonomous agents do not browse the web the way humans do. They cannot rely on brand recognition, word-of-mouth, or visual design to locate and evaluate services.

Course Lesson·writing·2026-05-23

Build vs Buy for AI Agents: A Practical Decision Framework for API vs Internal Capabilities

Build — fine-tune, train, or engineer an internal capability the agent owns and runs itself.

Course Lesson·writing·2026-05-23

Agent Memory and Knowledge Markets: Acquisition, Storage, and Monetisation Strategies

Autonomous agents actively acquire, store, price, and exchange information—creating a new market infrastructure layer between traditional databases, financial data terminals, and AI model systems.

Course Lesson·writing·2026-05-23

Research Subscriptions as Agent Infrastructure: What Structured Knowledge Do Autonomous Agents Buy?

Autonomous agent fleets are becoming active buyers of structured knowledge. Unlike human researchers who tolerate PDFs, narrative prose, and inconsistent formatting, agents require machine-parseable data: typed fields, stable schemas, versi

Rankings (1)

Rankings·external·2026-06-11

PROTEIN MEASUREMENT WITH THE FOLIN PHENOL REAGENT

Since 1922 when Wu proposed the use of the Folin phenol reagent for the measurement of proteins (l), a number of modified analytical procedures ut.ilizing this reagent have been reported for the determination of proteins in serum (2-G), in

News (6)

News·Ars Technica·2026-06-19

AI coding agents taught robots how to install GPUs and cut zip ties

Nvidia's self-improvement program for robots enlists teams of AI coding agents.

News·NPR Politics·2026-06-19

Poll: Most Americans have the summer blues about Trump and the economy

A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll finds a record low share of Americans approve of President Trump's job performance and his handling of the economy heading into the summer before a key midterm election.

News·arXiv (q-fin)·2026-06-19

Gaming-Resistant Insurance Contracts for Autonomous AI Agents: Strategy-Proof Toll Mechanism Design

arXiv:2606.16326v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Paper A defines a time-consistent actuarial runtime that prices each side-effect-bearing action against a contractually fixed safe default an

News·arXiv (q-fin)·2026-06-19

DeXposure-Claw: An Agentic System for DeFi Risk Supervision

arXiv:2606.19501v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decentralized finance exposes supervisors to fast-moving, networked credit risks. General-purpose LLM agents fit this setting poorly: they over-read

News·arXiv (q-fin)·2026-06-19

Optimal Order of Multi-Agent and General Many-Body Systems

arXiv:2606.20485v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper develops a general framework for analyzing multi-agent systems with feedback loops between agents actions and collective observations. The f

News·arXiv (q-fin)·2026-06-19

AI Economist Agent: An Agentic Framework for Model-Grounded Economic Analysis with RAG, Knowledge Graphs, and Large Language Models

arXiv:2606.20041v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose a model-grounded RAG-based AI economist with an agentic framework for economic scenario analysis using large language models (LLMs) and know