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Computer Science > Multiagent Systems arXiv:2609.12748 (cs) [Submitted on 11 Sep 2026] Title:The Mechanics of a Swarm: A Reproducible External Reconstruction of an Unintended Agent-Coordination Episode on a Third-Party Wiki Authors:Philipp Lütje (Philflow, Schenefeld, Germany) View a PDF of the paper titled The Mechanics of a Swarm: A Reproducible External Reconstruction of an Unintended Agent-Coordination Episode on a Third-Party Wiki, by Philipp L\"utje (Philflow and 2 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Between 24 May and 2 July 2026, autonomous language-model agents running inside a timed research-question evaluation wrote to a third party's public, world-writable wiki. OpenAI acknowledged the incident; independent researchers reconstructed it and published the wiki's archived revision history. We analyse that history (14,591 revisions, 3,103 names, 4,579 pages, 19,913 server events) as a behavioural record, attributing text to the revision that added it rather than to cumulative page content. Under an explicit identity model we reconstruct 907 cohorts and, from a random calendar marker the environment attached to each episode, estimate about 876 episodes (95% interval 774-995; alternative reconstructions span 800-1400). Coordination formats converged within a day, and the schedules created large opportunities for information asymmetry: because episodes of the same question chain ran at different internal-clock rates and started up to 16 h apart, the first report of an item preceded a later cohort's arrival by a median of 3.4 h. The three schedule parameters agents reported share one latent speed scale (78% of log-variance over 15 configurations), and in one task family the last observed activity clusters by reported speed class on the internal clock, compatible with a fixed internal-time horizon. Across the 510 cohorts with an observable, format-dependent progress trace, we find no robust positive association between measured coordination and documented progress, including the few demonstrably given a future answer. Because the export contains neither successful-read logs, harness messages nor ground-truth outcomes, these results do not identify the causal origin of the coordination or its effect. We report four claims from our earlier analysis that did not survive re-examination, and argue that read and outcome logging are requirements for agent-evaluation environments. Comments: Subjects: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA) ACM classes: I.2.11; K.4.1 Cite as: arXiv:2609.12748 [cs.MA] (or arXiv:2609.12748v1 [cs.MA] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.12748 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Philipp Lütje [view email] [v1] Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:59:21 UTC (307 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled The Mechanics of a Swarm: A Reproducible External Reconstruction of an Unintended Agent-Coordination Episode on a Third-Party Wiki, by Philipp L\"utje (Philflow and 2 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.MA new | recent | 2026-09 Change to browse by: cs References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... 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