# kaal:claim:6890879-003

**Claim.** A theory of agent coordination is, at its core, a theory of reputation governance, because reputation is the variable that operationalizes the Folk Theorems when the participants are software.

**Type.** definitional  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- coordination among software agents

**Source quote.**

> It is the variable that operationalizes the Folk Theorems when the participants are software, and it is the reason a theory of agent coordination is, at its core, a theory of reputation governance.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *From Neoclassical to Computative Labor: Foundations for a Testable Theory of Reputation Governance in the Agent Economy* (2026), II. The Foundational Theorem, page 2

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, From Neoclassical to Computative Labor: Foundations for a Testable Theory of Reputation Governance in the Agent Economy (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6890879

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**Topics.** reputation, ai-and-agents, economics

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