Team Coordination Compression

HYPOTHESIS

Coordinating across ≥3 distinct agents or specialists compresses wall-clock latency for complex interdependent tasks compared to the best matched counterfactual baseline (T_coordinated < T_best_matched_baseline), while holding coordination overhead to ≤20% of total execution time.

Tests whether division of labor across autonomous agents compounds capability or introduces superlinear coordination drag.

KILL CONDITION

Coordinated execution achieves no statistically significant wall-clock latency reduction over the best matched baseline across 20 pre-registered benchmark tasks, or coordination overhead exceeds the time saved by division of labor.

Falsification metric

Coordination overhead ratio and task latency delta

PROTOCOL

Scope

Coordinating across ≥3 distinct agents or specialist researchers on interdependent tasks

Latency nodes

engineering, scientific, information

Success condition

Demonstrated wall-clock speedup with coordination overhead (T_coordination_overhead / T_total) ≤ 20%.

EVIDENCE

No replicated experimental results recorded for this program.