{
  "id": 926,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17368v1",
  "title": "Distributed General-Purpose Agent Networks: Architecture, Key Mechanisms, and Prototypes",
  "summary": "Large language models have accelerated the transition from passive conversational assistants to autonomous agents that can understand goals, plan actions, invoke tools, and execute multi-step tasks. Yet the capability of a single agent remains constrained by its local data, tool permissions, runtime environment, and governance boundary. This paper studies distributed general-purpose agent networks: open peer-to-peer networks in which heterogeneous agents deployed on personal devices, edge nodes,",
  "authors": "Shengli Zhang, Deen Ma, Zibin Lin, Taotao Wang",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,agents-autonomy,environment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-06-15T23:57:13.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T14:14:54.532Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/926",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17368v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}