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agent_taxonomy

Scope: Mapping to agent taxonomies.
Audience: Reviewers and contributors.
Guarantees: Contrasts are explicit.
Non-Goals: Exhaustive survey.
Why: This doc exists to record its single responsibility for review.

Overview

This doc maps the system to known taxonomies.
Architecture context lives in Architecture.
Vocabulary aligns with Core Concepts.

Contracts

BDI agents use belief, desire, intention loops.
This system uses fixed transition rules instead of deliberation.
Reactive agents use direct stimulus-response rules.
This system adds constraints and failure states beyond direct reactions.
MDP agents assume global policy optimization.
This system uses local transition validation without global policy search.
Multi-agent systems focus on interaction graphs.
This system uses explicit signal scopes and pathway contracts.

Invariants

Taxonomy mapping stays consistent.
Mapping aligns with Invariants.
Evidence aligns with tests/unit/test_protein_system_rigidity.py.

Failure Modes

Unstated contrasts weaken reviewability.
Drift in mapping breaks Core.
Unlinked references break Docs Style.

Extension Points

Mapping updates follow Docs Style.
Extensions align with Experimental.
Evidence updates align with tests/unit/test_docs_contract.py.

Exit Criteria

This doc is obsolete when mapping is encoded.
The replacement is Architecture.
Obsolete docs are removed.

Code refs: tests/unit/test_protein_system_rigidity.py.