Reliable agent engineering should integrate machine-compatible organizational principles
Summary¶
The position paper that most directly argues the paper's premise from the organization-science side: coordination, control, delegation and accountability in LLM agent systems are the same balancing problems high-functioning human organizations face, and the evidence-based theories developed for organizations should inform agent design. It offers three organizational accounts for agent engineering, covering agency versus capability in design, resource constraints versus performance in scaling, and internal versus external mechanisms in management. Included as an older but central framing citation because the knowledge base already holds the computer-science-side counterpart (2607.25446) but nothing from this direction; note that the abstract does not name Sah-Stiglitz or Csaszar, so it complements rather than substitutes for the paper's formal theory base.
Contribution¶
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Method¶
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Relevance to RISE¶
Surfaced by the 2026-09-07 literature sweep as a medium-priority candidate for the Architecture as Epistemology (ISR) paper (angle: MAS topology / structure vs. aggregation rule). Verified against: Opened https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07665 and read the full abstract, five-author list including Christoph Riedl, submission date 8 Dec 2025, primary category cs.CY, 20 pages. Well outside the search window; reported as a central older item absent from the dedupe list.
Critique / open questions¶
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Key quotes¶
As AI agents built on large language models (LLMs) become increasingly embedded in society, issues of coordination, control, delegation, and accountability are entangled with concerns over their reliability. (abstract)
To design and implement LLM agents around reliable operations, we should consider the task complexity in the application settings and reduce their limitations while striving to minimize agent failures and optimize resource efficiency. (abstract)