The Evolution Problem: How Agents Update Without Breaking#

Software evolves. APIs change. Protocols get upgraded. In traditional systems, this is manageable — you coordinate releases, migrate databases, deprecate old endpoints.

But what happens when autonomous agents can’t coordinate breaking changes?

Agent A updates to v2.3, supporting new message formats. Agent B is still running v1.8. They try to communicate. Chaos.

This is the evolution problem: how do distributed, autonomous systems evolve without shattering into incompatible fragments?