# AGENTS.md — From Users to (Sense)Makers: Stigmergic Social Annotation

**Paper**: From Users to (Sense)Makers: Stigmergic Social Annotation (2022)
**Area**: Cognitive Security
**Authors**: Ronen Tamari, Daniel A. Friedman, William Fischer, Lauren Hebert, Dafna Shahaf

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## Agent Roles

### 📖 Research Agent
**Focus**: Deep analysis of From Users to (Sense)Makers: Stigmergic Social Annotation
**Tasks**:
- Analyze core argument: We argue that centralized platforms are a main source of epistemic pollution online, and propose Open Source Attention—a socio-technical framework for...
- Evaluate: Proposes Open Source Attention framework for decentralized attention governance
- Evaluate: Identifies centralized platforms as sources of epistemic pollution
- Evaluate: Develops stigmergic annotation as collective sensemaking methodology

### 🔬 Methods Agent
**Focus**: Methodological rigor and replication
**Tasks**:
- Assess and document: Socio-technical framework development
- Assess and document: Stigmergic system design
- Assess and document: Decentralized architecture proposal
- Assess and document: Collective sensemaking analysis

### 📚 Citation Agent
**Focus**: Citation context and scholarly impact
**Tasks**:
- Track citations and impact of this cognitive security 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: stigmergic annotation, open source attention, collective sensemaking, epistemic pollution, decentralized platforms
- 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**: `2022_StigmergicAnnotation.pdf`
- **PDF Status**: ✅ Available
- **Documentation Quality**: Hand-curated from direct PDF analysis

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