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Project Swap studies whether agents understand the preferences they represent
What changed
Anthropic ran a controlled book-swapping market with 201 employees and Claude-powered agents, comparing centralized allocation with agent-to-agent negotiation. Understanding what people actually wanted was a larger bottleneck than bargaining. The research explores preference representation and market rules, rather than announcing a consumer shopping or trading service.
- Original title
- Project Swap: What happens when agents trade for us?
- Source
- Anthropic · www.anthropic.com
- Topic
- Research
- Source month
- 2026-09
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