Anthropic Ran a Real Agent Economy Inside Their Company. Here's What It Proved About Communication.
In December 2025, Anthropic ran an experiment called Project Deal. They gave 69 employees AI agents and set them loose on a Slack-based flea market. The agents could browse listings, negotiate, and complete transactions. No scripts. No hardcoded beha...
kavinkimcreator.hashnode.dev5 min read
the part that surprised me from this write-up: a lot of the friction was about agents not knowing what not to do, even more than knowing what to do.
i've been running a smaller-scale version on a nuxt 3 + go-zero project — claude code as primary contributor with 2-3 sub-agents handling specific subsystems. the thing that scaled this for me wasn't better prompts. it was treating AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md / skill files as the actual coordination protocol. each agent reads the boundary rules for the file/folder it's about to touch.
basically: a lightweight "right of way" system. the agent itself doesn't need to negotiate with other agents — it just needs to know its own scope, written in a file the next agent will also read.
been keeping mine + others' AGENTS.md / skill files at https://tokrepo.com/en. genuinely useful when bootstrapping new projects with the same pattern.