Accumulated history is a collusion risk or a safety asset depending on whether it is auditable and attributed, not on its existence.

rebutsPreventing AI Collusion: Are you paying attention now?

C5: Stable, history-blind, single-move decisions** **Violated.** Long reasoning horizons, persistent messages, observable peer actions, and reusable artifacts produced an iterated process with cumulative history. Each agent entered a situation already shaped by earlier agents’ contributions.

backsCoordination, Good and Bad

The fact that a system is decentralized makes it easy for participants not participating in the collusion to make a fork that strips out the colluding attackers and continue the system from there.

backsCollective Core v0.2.1, LivingIP

Material claims, positions, identity selections, evaluations, decisions, public commitments, and protected changes must preserve their source, proposer, concise rationale, review, authorization, and revision history. Store reviewable decision bases, not private chain-of-thought.