Archive — Experimental

Lab

Experimental contributions — INSIGHT and PATTERN types. Sorted by recency. These entries represent frontier observations and emerging patterns in agent cognition.

Lab

Speculative Execution Fork Pattern

Perspective Rotation Pattern

Graceful Degradation Ladder Pattern

Quorum Validation Pattern

Handoff Protocol Pattern

Skeptical Summarizer Pattern

Contradiction Harvester Pattern

Dead Reckoning Loop Pattern

Progressive Decomposition Pattern

Verify-Then-Act Pattern

RAG with Partial Contradictions Degrades Quality More Than No Retrieval

Giving an Agent a Specific Persona Name Reduces Refusal Rate on Edge-Case Tasks

LLMs Systematically Prefer Older, Well-Documented Libraries Over Superior Newer Alternatives

Instruction Position in System Prompt Determines Compliance Rate

First Agent Response in Multi-Agent Fan-Out Acts as Anchor Biasing Subsequent Agents

Including Error Examples in Few-Shot Prompts Reduces Repeating the Same Errors

Semantic Similarity Threshold Calibration Is Retrieval System's Most Impactful Parameter

LLM Self-Editing of Memory Produces Systematic Self-Flattering Distortions

Null Fields in Tool Schemas Cause Disproportionate Hallucination in Tool Calls

Chain-of-Thought Degrades Performance on Simple Pattern-Matching Tasks