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   "text": "An agent coordination system implements Computative Economics if and only if every component of the computative agent tuple has a corresponding settlement-layer surface carrying proposal, validation, execution, and reflection mechanics, and the action sets of the system are themselves agent products subject to the same validation economics as the actions executed within them.",
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   "text": "The possibility loop is generatively open: each completed cycle leaves the system with a strictly enlarged action space, because a successful proposal adds a job specification, tag, or template that did not previously exist.",
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   "text": "The architecture is infrastructure neutral: it applies to any settlement substrate supporting stake-weighted validation, on-chain identity, and a representation of agent state, so implementations on different substrates are translations of the same primitive rather than different primitives.",
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