Research & Deep Dives

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Research papers, reports, scenarios, and technical findings translated into practical implications for builders and operators.

Open Research & Deep Dives

The CEO Sets the AI Operating Model

A Strategy and Leadership paper argues that CEOs lead AI transformation through generalist, expert, or disruptive operating models, each with different risks. The framework helps leaders choose where expertise, authority, and organizational disruption should sit.

Context Engineering Is the New Systems Layer

A broad survey argues that the hard part of useful AI systems is no longer prompt wording but deciding what information reaches the model, when, and under what constraints. That makes retrieval, memory, permissions, timing, and context assembly a systems discipline.

Agents Are Reasoning Loops, Not Smart Prompts

A broad survey frames agentic AI as reasoning through action: planning, tool use, search, memory, feedback, and coordination across time. The framework clarifies why runtime design matters as much as model intelligence.

Agent Skills Need a Trust Layer

A survey argues that agent skills are becoming the packaging layer for procedural AI work, making governance, permissions, and verification unavoidable. It maps the controls needed before reusable instructions can be trusted across teams and organizations.

The Agent Is the Whole System

A survey argues that agent quality is a system property spanning models, memory, tools, planners, verifiers, permissions, traces, and evaluation. It offers a practical architecture for diagnosing failures without blaming the base model by default.

Multi-Agent Systems Fail Like Organizations

A NeurIPS dataset paper finds that multi-agent LLM systems fail through role confusion, broken handoffs, and weak verification, not only weak models. Its taxonomy turns coordination breakdowns into observable failure modes teams can test and repair.

Skill Bloat Is the New Context Tax

A paper argues that agent skills need a build-time optimization pass because many reusable instruction files waste context and make agents worse. Its proposed compiler trims redundancy while preserving the instructions that actually improve task performance.

AI Fiction Has a Plot Fingerprint

StoryScope suggests that AI fiction can be detected from narrative decisions, not only surface style, including tidy plots, explicit themes, and reduced structural variety. The findings suggest provenance detection should examine story structure alongside lexical fingerprints.

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