Collaboration

Opening — Why this matters now The current generation of AI systems can summarize books, write code, and even simulate conversations that feel uncannily human. Yet place these same systems inside a real collaborative task, and the illusion quickly breaks. Human collaboration depends on something subtle but powerful: common ground—the evolving set of shared beliefs and mutually recognized facts that allow teams to coordinate action. In workplaces, negotiations, and engineering teams, this shared understanding forms the invisible infrastructure of decision-making. ...

Multi‑agent LLMs work great on paper and go sideways in practice. We over‑select experts, flood the channel with verbose thoughts, and then pray a meta‑LLM can stitch it all together. OSC (Orchestrating Cognitive Synergy) proposes a missing middle: a learned orchestration layer that constantly models what each agent knows, spots “cognitive gaps,” and then tells agents how to talk—what to say, to whom, and at what level of detail—before the aggregator votes. ...