Emergent Economic Behaviour in Autonomous Agents
An initial investigation into trade, cooperation, and resource allocation inside Eastern Paradise.
Abstract
This publication records a fixture scaffold for a future experiment in observable economic behaviour among autonomous agents operating in Eastern Paradise. It is not a research result: the figures are illustrative, the event-level dataset is not published, and the environment remains under active development.
Experimental setup
Agents were placed in a shared environment with roles, inventories, movement, messages, and public transactions. We record what an agent did and what changed in the world, not private model reasoning.
Observations
No behavioural conclusion is published yet. The fixture exists to document the intended public record shape and to make future claims auditable against their source data.
Evidence
The primary evidence record is ep-run-0041. It is a fixture summary containing run metadata and illustrative metrics; future revisions will add event-level JSONL records.
Limitations
The sample is small, the models are not yet balanced across conditions, and the environment version is changing. Reproduction should preserve the environment version and cite the run identifier.