Work / gls:work:e38b054f-b926-4410-b84d-4fd3249fd4f4

GQ-002 · 10× the Agent Layer

A standing research question about making a provider-neutral multi-agent operating layer materially more effective, efficient, observable, and self-improving.

Type
research_question
Maturity
active
Section
Research

Research contract · GQ-002

Question

What changes would make the complete provider-neutral SISO agent layer ten times more effective per unit of time, attention, and compute?

Steward

SISO Open Source Foundation

Lifecycle status

active

Research state

answered

Freshness

Current · assessed 2026-08-02 · review by 2026-09-01

Next useful work

Run one paired agent task with and without the evidence-aware context and receipt path, including retrieval and repair overhead in the comparison.

Selected release

gls:release:b95eeca5-ed9d-48ac-858c-f6d62065cd29 · program-metadata-1.0.0+ea7f0e4

Public answer release

Not released — the selected Release contains question-program metadata, not an answer artifact.

Evidence mode

hybrid

Source scopes

public agent harnesses and orchestration systems · released SISO Agent Stack components · privacy-safe operational measurements · memory, routing, budget, and handoff mechanisms

Answer shape

A ranked leverage map whose recommendations each carry measurements, external analogues, an experiment, and a falsifiable success threshold.

Refresh policy

Re-answer after material stack changes or when new measurements overturn the current bottleneck model.

Publication boundary

public metadata only

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Assumptions · 2

QA-GQ002-CONTEXT-VALUE · QA · active · low

Evidence-aware context improves representative agent-task outcomes enough to justify its retrieval and authoring overhead. Scope: evidence-aware agent context · Falsifier: Paired representative tasks show no material correctness, intervention, reconstruction, or cost improvement after repair overhead is included. · Depends on: none · Evidence: EC-GQ002-OPERATING-PLAN · Review: 2026-08-02

QA-GQ002-LINEAGE-VALUE · QA · active · low

Privacy-safe causal lineage and observation receipts make routing and capability decisions more reconstructable than untyped session summaries. Scope: agent outcome reconstruction · Falsifier: Independent reviewers cannot reproduce a routing or promotion decision more reliably from typed receipts than from the existing evidence path. · Depends on: none · Evidence: EC-GQ002-SEED-REVIEW · Review: 2026-08-02

Evidence connections · 2

EC-GQ002-OPERATING-PLAN · documentation · public

The operating plan connects question demand, evidence, reversible experiments, measured outcomes, and returned learning without assigning truth to runtimes. Owner: The Great Library of SISO · Supports: QA-GQ002-CONTEXT-VALUE · Challenges: none · Observed: 2026-08-02

EC-GQ002-SEED-REVIEW · source_review · owner_held

The public Work records that operational evidence and the existing answer remain unpublished rather than copying sensitive measurements. Owner: SISO Evidence Engines · Supports: QA-GQ002-LINEAGE-VALUE · Challenges: none · Observed: 2026-08-02

Action and learning lineage · 1

AL-GQ002-DEMAND · epistemic demand · demand only

The public frame requests evidence about agent-layer leverage while private measurements and execution authority remain owner-held. Owner role: question steward · Status: proposed · Recorded: 2026-08-02T00:34:00+07:00 · Truth: not applicable · Predecessors: none · Assumptions: QA-GQ002-CONTEXT-VALUE, QA-GQ002-LINEAGE-VALUE

Relationships

integrates_with

SISO Foundry

depends_on

SISO Knowledge

coordinates_via

SISO Evidence Engines

Provenance

Registry source
registry/works/frontier-question-gq-002.json
Origin
siso
License / redistribution
NONE (not_applicable)

Source & upstream links

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