Governance by Design: A Parsonian Institutional Architecture for Internet-Wide Agent Societies

This project is a high-level academic proposal (represented by an arXiv paper) with no current codebase or community adoption (0 stars, 1 fork, 1 day old). Its defensibility is currently tied to its intellectual novelty—applying classical sociological frameworks (Parsons' AGIL) to the problem of internet-wide AI agent interactions. While frontier labs (OpenAI, Anthropic) are building the 'agents' themselves, they are currently focused on individual agent capability and safety rather than the macro-scale institutional governance of heterogeneous agent societies. The project addresses a 'future-state' problem: how agents from different vendors interact in an open market. Competitors would include nascent agent protocols (e.g., AgentProtocol, Fetch.ai, or AutoGPT's Forge) and decentralized identity (DID) standards. The moat is non-existent as it stands, but the theoretical framework could influence future standardization efforts if it gains academic or industry consortium traction. Platform risk is low because this level of governance would likely require cross-platform neutrality rather than a single vendor solution.