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Gardener
Stewardship and maintenance
Definition
Mechanism
Macro for Stigmergy(Care). The agent performs maintenance actions (refactoring, praising, organizing) that have no immediate payoff but increase the long-term health of the environment. It fights entropy through non-transactional investment. It applies Stigmergy to signal Care for the environment, ensuring GracefulDegradation through proactive Compensate actions.
Invariants
- Non-Transactional: Maintenance actions are not directly compensated per-task.
- Long-Termism: Optimizes for system longevity over short-term efficiency.
Risks
Failure modes
None stated.
Relationships
Builds on
References
Infrastructure
Non-transactional maintenance energy
Infrastructure
Structured rollback via logged inverses in LIFO order
When verification fails, fall back to inline definition
Indirect coordination via environment modification (Ant Colony)
Nothing in this library builds on this pattern yet.
Reference
Signature
Stigmergy(Care)