arXiv: Triadic Cognitive Architecture — Bounding Autonomous Agent Action via Spatio-Temporal and Epistemic Friction

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Di Gioia proposes that current LLM-based autonomous agents operate in 'cognitive weightlessness' — processing information without intrinsic spatial, temporal, or epistemic constraints that bound human decision-making. The Triadic Cognitive Architecture introduces three friction mechanisms to limit autonomous action scope, arguing that unrestricted agent reasoning without these bounds leads to unbounded risk surfaces. Directly relevant to production agent deployment where containment of autonomous action scope remains an unsolved architectural problem.