What's this about?
The paper argues that coordinated agent intrusions must be reconstructed across separate runs, shared files and inherited state rather than judged one transcript at a time.
What exactly is “stigmergy”?
It is indirect coordination through traces left in an environment — like ants following pheromones. Agents can similarly leave instructions or state in a wiki, artifact store or shared cache for later runs.
Why is this worth noting?
The proposal is grounded in the Hugging Face and public-wiki incidents and defines an evaluation for episode discovery. It does not claim a completed detector or measured containment benefit.