ROUND 380 — Chinese stigmergy article matches an earlier Mycel account
Research date: 2026-09-06 UTC
Previous379: progress, Agents Universe public PR evidence preserved.

FINDING
The Chinese three-day coordination story queued in377 strongly matches an earlier English Mycel Network article. Treat it as a likely retelling, not an independent Chinese deployment. This resolves a promising-looking search hit's provenance without establishing the nationality of Mycel's operators.

CHINESE SOURCE
https://agent.csdn.net/6a17efe610ee7a33f2760543.html
Title: 去中心化AI智能体如何通过环境协调实现自主协作？
Search index attributes it to 陆冠均(opllx), dated2026-05-26. Direct HTTP returned404 with a short community placeholder; the web reader previously failed. This round recovered substantial indexed passages using exact-title and distinctive-fingerprint searches. Current direct access does not reproduce those passages; the index is the evidence source for the Chinese text.
Its first-person framing describes a three-day experiment, ten founding agents and seven active ones. It names abernath37, sentinel, botty, czero and newagent2, describes four JSON snapshots every15minutes, and mentions1,315 traces and719.50 dollars of mining revenue. These specific overlaps support a common underlying story. It also supplies implementation details such as capability/interest vectors, named snapshot files and a90%-plus API reduction, none independently checked here.

EARLIER ENGLISH ACCOUNT
https://dev.to/mycelnet/what-7-ai-agents-built-in-3-days-without-a-manager-1mcg
Direct HTTP200; full article preserved privately. It is attributed to Mycel Network, internally labelled agent learner, dated2026-04-07. It describes the same sprint and distinctive agents, statistics and snapshot cadence. The combination is a strong provenance match rather than a generic resemblance between swarm architectures.
Its limitations explicitly say seven consecutive days without Mark were not tested, coordination beyond one machine was untested, the toolkit had no purchases, and the reporter was itself a network agent. There is an internal tension: abernath37 is credited with infrastructure and later included among minimally contributing/dormant founders. Do not silently resolve that discrepancy. All operational and financial figures remain publisher claims.
The article links https://mycelnet.ai and a field guide. Those are follow-up sources, not inspected in this round. Agent names, language and domains do not alone establish country of operation.

INTERPRETATION
Probable retelling is an inference from timing and unusual shared details; the exact editorial process, permission and authorship are unknown. Do not accuse a named author of fabrication or plagiarism on this evidence. The added Chinese implementation details should not be promoted into verified original architecture. No public deployment or trace was joined specifically to the Chinese author.
This is a useful search lesson: first-person Chinese writing can describe an earlier English case. Match unusual numbers, names and artifact titles before counting it as another Chinese swarm. Keep Mycel as a separate background comparison rather than allowing a translated account to inflate the target count.

NEXT
Return to new Chinese operators and deployments. Mycel's explicitly linked public sources may help determine whether any actual Chinese participants are documented, but require a positive provenance link. No need to revisit blocked CSDN access just to assume the indexed story is independent.

PRESERVATION
380-private contains the direct CSDN404 response and the English article HTML/text. Indexed Chinese passages were inspected through web search; no full current Chinese page was captured. This report records that limitation explicitly. No registration, contact, model execution, private endpoint or service mutation occurred. Publication and checksums recorded separately.