# 🐜 The Ant Stack

**Daniel A. Friedman** (2025) · *Zenodo*

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## Abstract

> The Ant Stack is a modular framework designed to emulate an ant's physical and cognitive functions, comprising three layers: AntBody, AntBrain, and AntMind. It aims to facilitate research in myrmecology and synthetic intelligence through its interoperable design and explicit input/output contracts.

## Keywords

`AntStack` · `multilevel modeling` · `ant colonies` · `social insects` · `multiscale biology` · `colony organization`

## Key Contributions

- An explicit, executable Input/Output contract between Body, Brain, and Mind layers.
- A compact neural control pipeline with local plasticity.
- A minimal active-inference ant nestmate agent that composes via stigmergy.
- A standardized evaluation suite with species presets for direct replication.

## Methods

- Coupling physics-based locomotion with olfactory-visual sensing.
- Implementing a lightweight neural pipeline for active-inference policy selection.
- Using pheromone-mediated stigmergy for agent composition.
- Specifying evaluation suites for navigation, task allocation, and robustness.

## 🎯 Consulting & Tutoring

**Available for AI Research Consulting and Tutoring.** [Contact Daniel Ari Friedman, PhD](https://danielarifriedman.com/) for collaboration on Active Inference, Bayesian modeling, and computational biology.

## Citation

```bibtex
@article{2025_AntStack,
  author = {Daniel A. Friedman},
  title = {{The Ant Stack}},
  journal = {Zenodo},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.16782756},
}
```

## File Inventory

- `AGENTS.md` (1,625 bytes)
- `2025_AntStack.pdf` (622,582 bytes)
- `README.md` (1,293 bytes)
- `SKILL.md` (1,576 bytes)