# AGENTS.md — Active Inference & Behavior Engineering for Teams

**Paper**: Active Inference & Behavior Engineering for Teams (2020)
**Area**: Active Inference
**Authors**: Daniel A. Friedman

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## Agent Roles

### 📖 Research Agent
**Focus**: Deep analysis of Active Inference & Behavior Engineering for Teams
**Tasks**:
- Analyze core argument: Behavior engineering applies structured approaches from systems engineering to the understanding and management of behavior at individual and collecti...
- Evaluate: Proposes behavior engineering as a formal discipline
- Evaluate: Bridges behavioral science with systems engineering principles
- Evaluate: Provides frameworks for team and organizational behavioral design

### 🔬 Methods Agent
**Focus**: Methodological rigor and replication
**Tasks**:
- Assess and document: Systems engineering framework development
- Assess and document: Behavioral science synthesis
- Assess and document: Organizational analysis

### 📚 Citation Agent
**Focus**: Citation context and scholarly impact
**Tasks**:
- Track citations and impact of this active inference work
- Map connections to related works in the Friedman corpus
- Identify citing papers and downstream applications

### 🔗 Synthesis Agent
**Focus**: Cross-paper and cross-domain connections
**Tasks**:
- Connect themes: behavior engineering, systems engineering, organizational behavior, complex adaptive systems, team formation
- Link to related works in the docxology corpus
- Identify synergies across Active Inference, entomology, and cognitive security

### 💼 Consultant Agent
**Focus**: Practical application and knowledge transfer
**Tasks**:
- Evaluates practical applications and implementation strategies for this research
- Maps findings to industry challenges, Active Inference, and technological solutions
- Facilitates knowledge transfer to external teams and collaborators

## Extraction Log

- **Source PDF**: `2020_BehaviorEngineering.pdf`
- **PDF Status**: ✅ Available
- **Documentation Quality**: Hand-curated from direct PDF analysis

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