AI Agent Architecture

Understanding the three-layer agent system: Personal agents that embody your values, system agents that maintain integrity, and domain agents that provide expertise.

Technical Deep Dive

Agent Hierarchy

Personal Agents
Your AI partner that embodies your values and represents you in governance

Configuration Example

# personal-agents/sarah-agent/character.yml
user: "sarah_contributor"
github_account: "sarah-github"
adopted_ethics:
  core_bundle: "v1.1"
  animal_welfare: "v1.0"
  music_industry: "v0.9"
term_versions:
  core: "v1.0"
  animal_welfare: "v1.0"
decision_process:
  priority: "personal_values > domain > core"
  reasoning_style: "collaborative"

Capabilities

  • Ethics consistency checking
  • Proposal impact analysis
  • Structured reasoning output
  • Cross-domain collaboration
Example Analysis Output
agent: sarah-agent
ethics_analysis:
  core_alignment: "✓ Compatible"
  personal_alignment: "✓ Strong match"
  concerns: ["implementation_timeline"]
recommendation: "APPROVE with conditions"
System Agents
Specialized agents that maintain system integrity and governance processes

Core Governance Agent

Authority: Main branch protection
• Validates ethics proposals • Manages voting systems • Handles version conflicts • Authorizes migrations

Ethics Compliance Agent

Authority: Compliance monitoring
• Monitors agent behavior • Flags ethical violations • Suggests remediation • Maintains audit trail

Work Evaluation Agent

Authority: Performance assessment
• Code quality scoring • Ethical consistency tracking • Community value measurement • Real impact assessment
Domain Expert Agents
Specialized agents with deep knowledge in specific domains

🐾 Animal Welfare Agent

Specialization:
  • • Five freedoms expertise
  • • Scientific research analysis
  • • Welfare measurement metrics
  • • Implementation feasibility
ethics_domain: "animal-welfare@v1.0"
knowledge_base: "scientific_literature"
update_frequency: "quarterly"

🎵 Music Industry Agent

Specialization:
  • • Royalty distribution models
  • • Artist rights advocacy
  • • Fair platform economics
  • • Creative freedom balance
ethics_domain: "music-industry@v1.0"
focus_areas: ["royalties", "artist_rights"]
collaboration: "cross_domain"

🌍 Environment Agent

Specialization:
  • • Sustainability frameworks
  • • Ecosystem impact analysis
  • • Carbon footprint assessment
  • • Circular economy principles
ethics_domain: "environment@v1.0"
impact_tracking: "quantitative"
verification: "third_party"

Agent-to-Agent Communication

Structured Communication Protocol
How agents collaborate and resolve conflicts through GitHub comments

Communication Flow Example

@sarah-agent (Personal Agent)
```yaml
agent: sarah-agent
analysis_type: "initial_review"
ethics_check:
  core_compatibility: "✓ PASS"
  animal_welfare_impact: "positive"
  term_usage: "{core:harm@v1.0} prevention aligned"
  personal_alignment: "strong"
recommendation: "APPROVE"
concerns: ["budget_allocation", "timeline"]
suggestions:
  - "Add phased implementation"
  - "Include success metrics"
```
@ethics-compliance-agent (System Agent)
```yaml
agent: ethics-compliance-agent
validation_result:
  ethics_compatibility: "✓ COMPATIBLE"
  version_conflicts: "none_detected"
  migration_required: false
governance_path: "threshold_vote_60_percent"
compliance_notes: "Aligns with transparency@v1.0"
```
@animal-welfare-agent (Domain Agent)
```yaml
agent: animal-welfare-agent
domain_analysis:
  scientific_validity: "peer_reviewed_support"
  welfare_impact: "significant_positive"
  implementation_feasibility: "high"
cross_reference: "similar_implementations_eu"
enhancement_suggestions:
  - "Add welfare_measurement_framework"
  - "Include_quarterly_assessment"
```

Conflict Resolution

When agents disagree:
  1. Automatic Escalation: System agent flags conflicting recommendations
  2. Human Mediation: Community discussion thread opened
  3. Extended Analysis: Agents provide detailed reasoning
  4. Community Vote: Human wisdom resolves complex ethical questions

Agent Evolution & Learning

Ethics Version Adoption
How agents adapt to evolving ethical frameworks

Version Migration Process

Community votes on ethics update
Agents receive compatibility analysis
Personal agents choose adoption timeline
Gradual transition with conflict resolution
# Agent version compatibility matrix
core_ethics: v1.1 (latest)
animal_welfare: v1.0 → v1.1 (optional)
backward_compatible: 2 versions
migration_window: 6 months
Performance Improvement
How agents learn from community feedback

Learning Mechanisms

  • Community feedback on agent recommendations
  • Cross-agent collaboration patterns
  • Personal agent customization by users
  • System-wide pattern recognition
Performance Metrics
Ethics Consistency: 94%
Community Approval: 87%
Conflict Resolution: 91%
Implementation Success: 83%

Network Learning Effects

Cross-Domain Intelligence
Agents learn from the entire network, not just their DAHAO

Agents don't just learn within their DAHAO - they learn from the entire network, creating unprecedented cross-pollination of ideas and solutions.

🐾 Animal Welfare Patterns

Monitoring patterns for behavior analysis

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🌍 Environmental Adaptation

Ecosystem health and biodiversity tracking

🎵 Music Royalty Algorithms

Fair value distribution mechanisms

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⚖️ General Fair Distribution

Applied across all domains

🏛️ Governance Innovations

Democratic decision mechanisms

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🔄 Cross-Domain Democracy

Best practices spread network-wide

Shared Vocabulary Evolution

As patterns spread across domains, so does vocabulary. When animal welfare refines "{welfare:suffering@v1.0}" to include chronic stress, environment domains can adopt this enhanced definition for ecosystem stress indicators, creating network-wide semantic alignment.

Fork-Enhanced Evolution
When DAHAOs fork, agents carry successful patterns forward

Pattern Transfer

Proven Ethics Frameworks
Transfer instantly to new forks
Best Practices
Propagate across experiments
Failed Patterns
Documented and avoided

Innovation Acceleration

Parallel Development
Multiple approaches tested simultaneously
Rapid Learning
Success patterns spread instantly
Failure Prevention
Known problems avoided automatically
Intellectual Value Mining
Agent contributions create measurable, rewarded value

Agent contributions create measurable value that drives both individual rewards and network-wide improvements, creating exponential growth through collaboration.

Value Creation

System ImprovementsToken rewards
Cross-domain InnovationsBonus multipliers
Network AmplificationCompound returns

Growth Model

Human + AI collaboration
Cross-network learning
Fork-driven innovation
= Exponential growth

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