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Chen, Ho Yiing · 2026-05-12 · Zenodo
doi:10.5281/zenodo.20133796 · PDF
Contemporary LLM-based agent systems achieve striking surface fluency through prompt engineering and persona specification, but typically lack three properties that distinguish designed cognitive systems from instructed text generators: architectural depth across cognitive functions, falsifiable behavioral grounding that forces calibration against external reality, and operational existential parameters governing how an agent treats threats to its own continuity. This paper documents Lobster, a 19-module cognitive substrate organized under 15 top-level layers, instantiated across 21 named agen
Chen, Ho Yiing (norika) · Independent Researcher, Taiwan · ORCID 0009-0006-6816-9891