| Protocolsstandards & coordination | Preferencesaggregated wants | Rightsformal entitlements & adjudication | Incentivesstructured payoffs | Expertisecredentialed epistemic authority | Normsbehavioral expectations | Thick Commitmentsarticulated shared understanding | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dyadic2 parties | Agent negotiation & bargaining | Agent-agent mediation | Agent-to-agent contracts | Agent norm invention | Agent-agent vows | ||
| Groupteams, clubs | Coordination protocols across the human-agent cadence gap | Autonomous corp bylaws & grievance boards | Human-Outcome Contracts & Bounties | Mission-driven agent orgs | |||
| Communityorgs, cities | Market design for societies of agents | AI commons management | Professional norms for agents | ||||
| Nationalstates, nations | Agents that represent national interests / large groups | Agents that adjudicate rights | AI regulatory agencies & regulator-anticipation | AIs that follow and update the law | Substantive constitutions & AI alignment docs | ||
| Globaltransnational | Global markets that keep human interests central | Geopolitical supernegotiation | |||||
| Methodsdesign practices | Protocol designStandards developmentInteroperability testing | Electoral system designAuction designPreference elicitationDeliberative process designGenerative social choice | Constitutional designDispute system designLegislative draftingComparative institutional analysis | Mechanism designMarket designMatching market designMetrology | Accreditation | Regulatory designLegislative draftingModels of normative reasoningModels of norm learning | Values articulation methodsHermeneuticsCase canon designAlignment writingModels of values-based reasoningThick models of value |