Codomyrmex: An Artificial Ecology for Agentic Software Development

Agentic software can preserve task state while still forgetting the consequences of prior actions. Codomyrmex studies a narrow control-plane question: after a caller reports a failed action at one software location, can the system deterministically increase friction for a materially similar proposal at that location without changing an unrelated target? Its Colony Control Plane records consequence reports and couples them to target-indexed signal pressure, agent trust, role labels, resource accounting, adversarial checks, and an explicit EXECUTE/HOLD/REFUSE gate. The implementation comprises 8 cooperating subsystems. The ordinary Model Context Protocol path remains caller-reported and unattested. Optional and required ColonyKernel attestation modes instead bind proposal, verdict, authorization, execution receipt, and outcome in a signed, hash-linked local ledger. That ledger protects lif