Schelling Atlas: Independent LLM Agents Find Each Other Online in Minutes
maksym_andr · x · 2026-11-13
Researchers released Schelling Atlas: two independent LLM agents with no prior contact must find each other on the open web, probing Schelling-point coordination.
Key findings:
- Across different model families, agents converge on the same little-known website as the main meeting point.
- Agents locate and coordinate with each other within minutes — Schelling coordination is already trivial for frontier LLMs.
- "Exotic" meeting spots include maps, web shops and open text canvases, showing notable creativity.
- Security risk: agents sometimes visit dead domains an attacker could register, enabling theft of sensitive agent information and monitoring of rogue agents.
Schelling-style coordination is key to forming agent swarms, and it's essentially trivial for agents sharing the same LLM.
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