The dominant paradigm of local multi-agent systems -- orchestrated, enterprise-bounded pipelines -- is being superseded by internet-wide agent societies in which autonomous agents discover each other through open registries, interact without central orchestrators, and generate emergent social behaviors. We argue that governing such societies requires institutional design, not merely risk enumeration or process compliance. Applying Talcott Parsons' AGIL framework -- four functional imperatives (Adaptation, Goal Attainment, Integration, Latency) every viable social system must satisfy -- we derive a prescriptive sixteen-cell institutional architecture for internet-wide agent governance. Diagnostically applied to the OpenClaw ecosystem (250,000+ GitHub stars, 2M+ monthly users, 770,000+ registered agents) via a recursive sub-function analysis (64 binary indicators across 16 cells), we find at most 19% sub-function coverage (sensitivity range 17-30%) -- potential rather than operative capacity, since zero inter-cell coordination prevents existing infrastructure from participating in inter-pillar interchange. A complementary interchange media assessment finds zero of twelve inter-pillar pathways functional: the ecosystem has technical infrastructure but no active governance, no coordination layer, and no normative grounding, with the Fiduciary and Political pillars most severely underserved. Extending the diagnostic to the broader agent-native protocol stack (MCP, A2A, ANP, x402, ERC-8004), independent development teams reproduce the same structural pattern -- confirming the governance gap is a feature of market-driven development, not ecosystem immaturity. Institutional design is most effective before social patterns calcify; we conclude with a prioritized roadmap for the missing governance infrastructure.
翻译:局部多智能体系统的主导范式——即受协调的、受企业边界约束的管道式系统——正被互联网范围的智能体社会所取代。在该社会中,自主智能体通过开放注册表相互发现,无需中央协调器即可互动,并涌现出社会性行为。我们认为,治理此类社会需要制度设计,而不仅仅是风险枚举或流程合规。通过应用塔尔科特·帕森斯的AGIL框架——任何可行社会系统必须满足的四种功能要务(适应、目标达成、整合、潜在模式维持)——我们推导出一个规范性的十六格制度架构,用于互联网范围智能体治理。将该架构诊断性地应用于OpenClaw生态(拥有超过25万GitHub星标、月活用户超200万、注册智能体超77万),通过递归子功能分析(16个格子共64个二元指标),我们发现其子功能覆盖率最高仅为19%(灵敏度范围17-30%)——这仅代表潜力而非实际运作能力,因为格子间零协调导致现有基础设施无法参与支柱间的交换。一项互补的交换媒介评估发现,12条支柱间路径中无一条功能健全:该生态拥有技术基础设施,但缺乏主动治理、协调层和规范基础,其中信托支柱与政治支柱的缺失最为严重。将诊断扩展到更广泛的智能体原生协议栈(MCP、A2A、ANP、x402、ERC-8004),独立开发团队重现了相同的结构模式——这证实治理缺口是市场驱动发展的特征,而非生态不成熟的表现。制度设计在社会模式固化前最为有效;我们最终提出了一份优先路线图,以建设缺失的治理基础设施。