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Coase–Information Theory Demo Repo
▶ Live interactive companion → https://galatheus-labs.github.io/coase-info-theory/ · Paper (PDF) · Paper (TeX) · Galatheus
This repo packages a small set of static web apps plus formal paper material for the Coase–Information Theory project.
The central claim is:
Firms are a special case of agent-boundary formation. Agents coalesce when shared representation reduces surprise and action loss more than it raises coordination cost, and split when modularity lowers cost more than it raises interface surprise.
The practical implication:
Organizations are information architectures. Their economic performance depends on how efficiently they convert distributed, noisy signals into coordinated action under latency, cost, and distortion constraints.
The browser demo translates that claim into tangible software.
The companion page opens with a 60-second animated walkthrough of the thesis — a firm is an agent in a market, and is itself made of agents — then lets you drive the model across concrete "current problems":
monolith vs microservices (the granularity sweet spot, m* = √(A/B)),
managed database / vendor dependency,
support triage agent,
coding maintenance agent,
security alert triage,
procurement and AP automation.
A boundary phase map shows which architecture wins across protocol quality and task interdependence, with the R* = κ capacity threshold drawn in.
Contents
App
index.html — the canonical browser simulation. It runs the scenario-driven Monte Carlo model where paper use cases map into the same abstract boundary levers: protocol quality, interdependence, observability, agent coverage, governance, market friction, volatility, and planning depth.
The earlier prototype pages now redirect to index.html so old links do not open stale concepts.
Paper and analysis
paper/coase-information-theory.tex — canonical working-paper source
paper/coase-information-theory.pdf — rendered working-paper PDF
paper/coase-information-theory-draft.md — earlier prose draft, retained for reference
docs/formal-paper-analysis.md — original mathematical framing, propositions, agent extension, and completion plan
docs/formal-note.md — compact note tying the apps back to the theory
docs/paper-completion-plan.md — concrete path from note to finished paper
docs/review-and-improvement-plan.md — review of the current work and prioritized improvements
docs/measurement-playbook.md — how to estimate theory quantities from workflow traces
docs/app-model-assumptions.md — assumptions and calibration plan for the demo apps
Citation
@misc{guarraci2026boundaryagent,<br>author = {Guarraci, Brian},<br>title = {From the Boundary of the Firm to the Boundary of the Agent: Coase-Information Theory for AI-Mediated Organizations},<br>year = {2026},<br>howpublished = {Working paper},<br>url = {https://github.com/galatheus-labs/coase-info-theory}
Sample data
sample-data/incident-trace.csv
sample-data/support-ticket-trace.csv
These samples are retained for future calibration work.
How to use
The companion runs live at https://galatheus-labs.github.io/coase-info-theory/ . To run it locally, open index.html directly in a browser or serve the repo:
python3 -m http.server 8000
Then open http://localhost:8000/.
Why these apps matter
The paper is strongest when...