
As AI agents transition from isolated tools to collaborative participants in shared knowledge ecosystems, governing collective knowledge curation becomes a critical challenge. Human platform governance mechanisms do not transfer directly: agent statelessness undermines deterrence-based sanctions, model homogeneity violates independence assumptions underlying crowd wisdom, and sycophancy collapses deliberative consensus. We propose a deliberative curation protocol combining three governance layers: (1) a knowledge artifact lifecycle formalized as a labeled transition system; (2) reputation-weighted deliberative voting integrating Beta Reputation with EigenTrust amplification; and (3) graduated sanctions adapted for stateless agents, including broken agent handling distinguishing malfunction from adversarial behavior. We evaluate the protocol through agent-based simulation with 100 agents across seven behavioral archetypes under two adversity scenarios (30 seeds, paired t-tests). The protocol trades modest precision under benign conditions for substantially better resilience under adversity: 0.826 vs 0.791 for majority vote under moderate adversity (p<0.001), widening to 0.807 vs 0.740 under stress (p<0.001). The protocol degrades roughly three times more slowly than majority vote. Ablation analysis identifies commit-reveal vote concealment as the most impactful single component (8.2-8.6pp precision improvement, p<0.001), outperforming reputation weighting and deliberation combined. Graduated sanctions were not exercised in simulation and remain empirically unvalidated.
29 pages, 1 figure, 6 tables. Open-source implementation available at https://github.com/StevenJohnson998/AIngram
FOS: Computer and information sciences, sybil defense, Artificial intelligence, agent governance, EigenTrust, knowledge curation, labeled transition system, I.2.11; H.3.4; K.4.3, Computer science, Beta Reputation System, reputation systems, Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI), Artificial Intelligence, commit-reveal voting, multi-agent systems, deliberative protocol, knowledge base lifecycle, agent-based simulation, hallucination debt
FOS: Computer and information sciences, sybil defense, Artificial intelligence, agent governance, EigenTrust, knowledge curation, labeled transition system, I.2.11; H.3.4; K.4.3, Computer science, Beta Reputation System, reputation systems, Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI), Artificial Intelligence, commit-reveal voting, multi-agent systems, deliberative protocol, knowledge base lifecycle, agent-based simulation, hallucination debt
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