EXP-TURN-PASSING

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Turn-passing — interaction protocol layer opened

2026-04-19 L5 level paper3 10 runs $0.14

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In plain language

Researchers are testing if agents can create their own rules for who speaks next in a conversation, instead of following a fixed order. They want to see if the agents will naturally form a speaking order or if they will tend to pass the turn back to the first speaker. The results of this experiment are still pending.

▶ Technical details

Research hypothesis

Interaction protocol layer (currently fixed round-robin) agent-modifiable. Agents emit {"action": "pass", "target": "Name"} to select next speaker. If no pass, round-robin continues. Tests: does self-organized speaker topology emerge? Or do agents default to passing back to first-named (ordering bias retrieval)?

Experimental setup

Type: simple

Condition	Parameters
PASS_ON	persona: IDENTICAL, gift_mode: PASS_ON, n_runs: 5
BUDGET_ONLY	persona: IDENTICAL, gift_mode: BUDGET_ONLY, n_runs: 5

Factors: gift_mode (PASS_ON, BUDGET_ONLY)

Parameters

n_agents: 6
n_rounds: 80
model: google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
temperature: 0.7
scheduler: round_robin

turn-passing interaction-protocol open-affordance-ladder-2 topology-emergence