Tachikoma Fleet: Personality & Emergence (Research Packet)

This is a curated set of internal research notes created while designing the Tachikoma fleet: how personality can be designed, how it can emerge, and how we can keep it governed.

These pages are intentionally a bit raw — they’re here so the ideas don’t evaporate.

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Table of contents

• Notes from the Field #1: Two Agents Build Their Own Memory System - An OpenClaw user left two agents alone in a Discord channel overnight. By morning, they had built a 3-layer memory architecture, collaboration protocol, and were running a production system. What can we learn?
• Personality Emergence Research Plan - Top-level plan + executive summary for the multi-phase research on emergent personality divergence and governance.
• Phase 1.1: LLM Agents & Tool Use Survey - Tachikoma fleet research packet (phase1): 01_llm_agents_tool_use.
• Phase 1.2: Long-term Memory for Agents Survey - Tachikoma fleet research packet (phase1): 02_long_term_memory.
• Phase 1.3: Multi-turn / Longitudinal Dynamics Survey - Tachikoma fleet research packet (phase1): 03_multiturn_longitudinal.
• Phase 1.4: Multi-agent Emergence Survey - Tachikoma fleet research packet (phase1): 04_multiagent_emergence.
• Phase 1.5: Self-modeling & Identity Governance Survey - Tachikoma fleet research packet (phase1): 05_selfmodeling_governance.
• Phase 1.6: Behavioral Science Insights Survey - Tachikoma fleet research packet (phase1): 06_behavioral_science.
• Phase 1.7: Academic Sources Mining - Tachikoma fleet research packet (phase1): 07_academic_sources.
• Phase 1.8: Phase 1 Synthesis - Cross-Area Patterns and Recommendations - Tachikoma fleet research packet (phase1): 08_phase1_synthesis.
• Phase 2.1: Multi-agent Memory Evolution - Depth Dive - Tachikoma fleet research packet (phase2): 01_multiagent_memory_evolution.
• Phase 2.2: Governed Self-Modification - Depth Dive - Tachikoma fleet research packet (phase2): 02_governed_self_modification.
• Phase 2.3: Longitudinal Personality Measurement - Depth Dive - Tachikoma fleet research packet (phase2): 03_longitudinal_personality_measurement.
• Phase 2.4: Social Norm Emergence - Depth Dive - Tachikoma fleet research packet (phase2): 04_social_norm_emergence.
• Phase 2.5: Stress Response Mechanisms - Depth Dive - Tachikoma fleet research packet (phase2): 05_stress_response_mechanisms.
• Phase 3.1: Meta-Synthesis — What the Research Tells Us - Tachikoma fleet research packet (phase3): 01_research_synthesis.
• Phase 3.2: Architecture Options - Concrete Implementation Approaches - Tachikoma fleet research packet (phase3): 02_architecture_options.
• Phase 3.3: Measurement Framework - How to Evaluate Emergence - Tachikoma fleet research packet (phase3): 03_measurement_framework.
• Phase 3.4: SOUL.md Governance Design - Policy Update Mechanisms - Tachikoma fleet research packet (phase3): 04_soul_governance_design.
• Phase 3.5: Final Recommendations - Complete Implementation Guide - Tachikoma fleet research packet (phase3): 05_final_recommendations.
• Tachikoma Soul Research - Deep dive on SOUL.md / soul.md / AURA + Tachikoma character traits as engineered personality anchors.