# References & Bibliography Complete citations for the *Herding Cats in the AI Age* research series, organized by source type. [[Home|← Series Home]] | [[Glossary|← Glossary]] --- ## Academic Research **Cemri, M., Pan, M.Z., et al.** "Why Do Multi-Agent LLM Systems Fail?" UC Berkeley Sky Computing Lab. NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track, **Spotlight**. arXiv:2503.13657. March 17, 2025. → https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.13657 → Project: https://sky.cs.berkeley.edu/project/mast/ → GitHub: https://github.com/multi-agent-systems-failure-taxonomy/MAST **Kim, Y., et al.** "Towards a Science of Scaling Agent Systems." Google Research, Google DeepMind, MIT. arXiv:2512.08296. December 9, 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2512.08296 → https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08296 **IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.** Survey on text generation accuracy in AI image platforms. March 2024. *Referenced in Paper 4 (text rendering accuracy below 45% across major platforms).* --- ## U.S. Government Publications and Doctrine **Department of War.** "Artificial Intelligence Strategy for the Department of War." January 12, 2026. **FM 5-0.** *Army Planning and Orders Production.* 2022. MDMP codified in Chapter 12. **ADP 5-0.** *The Operations Process.* 2019. METT-TC defined. **ADRP 5-0.** *The Operations Process.* 2012. Mission Analysis and commander's intent two levels up. **TC 25-20.** *A Leader's Guide to After-Action Reviews.* 1993. Four AAR questions. **ATP 5-19.** *Risk Management.* 2014. Four-step risk management process. **FM 6-0.** *Commander and Staff Organization and Operations.* 2022. Battle rhythm concept. **AR 702-12.** *Quality Assurance Specialist (Ammunition Surveillance).* 2020. QASAS program. **AR 385-10.** *The Army Safety Program.* 2023. **U.S. Army.** "Army establishes new AI/machine learning career path for officers." December 2025. MOS 49B, first VTIP window January 5 – February 6, 2026. **SOCOM.** Request for Information: Agentic AI Demonstrations, Task Experiment 26-2. SAM.gov. December 2025. Event: April 13–17, 2026, Avon Park Air Force Range, Florida. --- ## Industry Research and Analysis **Gartner, Inc.** "Gartner Predicts Over 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Be Canceled by End of 2027." Press Release, June 25, 2025. → https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-06-25-gartner-predicts-over-40-percent-of-agentic-ai-projects-will-be-canceled-by-end-of-2027 **Gartner, Inc.** Poll of 3,412 respondents on agentic AI investments. January 2025. *Referenced in Paper 1, Section 8.5.* **Gartner, Inc.** "Predicts 2026: AI and Lean Six Sigma Convergence." 2025. *Quality 4.0 projection: 50%+ of LSS orgs will incorporate AI by 2026.* --- ## Think Tank and Strategic Analysis **Jensen, Benjamin & Strohmeyer, Matthew.** "Agentic Warfare and the Future of Military Operations: Rethinking the Napoleonic Staff." CSIS Futures Lab. July 2025. → Center for Strategic and International Studies: https://www.csis.org **Jensen, Benjamin, Tadross, Dan & Strohmeyer, Matthew.** "Agentic Warfare Is Here. Will America Be the First Mover?" *War on the Rocks.* October 2025. → https://warontherocks.com **Weist, LTC (Ret.) Thad, Kepley, Maj. Skyler & Musgrove, Maj. Braxton.** "AI-Augmented MDMP: Lessons from the CGSC Wargaming Experiment." *Small Wars Journal.* February 2026. → https://smallwarsjournal.com --- ## Technology Company Publications **Anthropic.** "Building Effective Agents." December 2024. → https://www.anthropic.com/research/building-effective-agents **Anthropic.** "How We Built Our Multi-Agent Research System." Anthropic Engineering Blog. June 13, 2025. → https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/multi-agent-research-system **Anthropic.** "Donating the Model Context Protocol and Establishing the Agentic AI Foundation." December 9, 2025. → https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-establishing-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation **Anthropic.** "Introducing Claude Opus 4.6." February 5, 2026. → https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6 **Cursor.** "Scaling Agents." cursor.com/blog/scaling-agents. October 2025. → https://cursor.com/blog/scaling-agents *Production results: ~1,000 commits/hour; web browser from scratch (1M+ lines, 1 week); React migration (266K additions / 193K deletions); video rendering 25x optimization.* **Google.** "Announcing the Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A)." Google Developers Blog. April 9, 2025. → https://developers.googleblog.com/en/a2a-a-new-era-of-agent-interoperability/ → Specification: https://a2a-protocol.org/latest/specification/ **Linux Foundation.** "Linux Foundation Announces the Formation of the Agentic AI Foundation." December 9, 2025. Platinum members: AWS, Anthropic, Block, Bloomberg, Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI. **OpenAI.** Agents SDK Documentation. → https://openai.github.io/openai-agents-python/ --- ## Adobe-Specific Sources (Paper 4) **Adobe.** "Partner models in Adobe products." helpx.adobe.com. Updated February 2026. → https://helpx.adobe.com (search: partner models Firefly) **Adobe.** "Known limitations in Firefly." helpx.adobe.com. December 2025. *Direct quote used: "Text and symbol generation in images still needs support in the Text to Image feature."* **Adobe.** "Firefly partner models expand your creative power." adobe.com/products/firefly/partner-models.html. **Adobe / Google Cloud.** Joint press release: "Expand Strategic Partnership to Advance the Future of Creative AI." October 28, 2025. *Announced at Adobe MAX.* **Benzinga.** "Adobe (ADBE) Stock Price Prediction 2026, 2027 & 2030." February 2026. *43% YoY decline, 23% YTD decline reported.* **Fortune.** "Adobe deepens Google Cloud partnership to advance AI." October 30, 2025. *$5B+ AI-influenced ARR, 700M MAU confirmed by Adobe EVP David Durn.* **TipRanks.** Adobe analyst rating downgrades compilation. February 2026. *HSBC ($388→$302), Piper Sandler (Overweight→Neutral), Oppenheimer (Outperform→Perform), Baird ($410→$350).* **Wu, Fei.** "Adobe Firefly Partner Models: The 2026 Field Guide." feisworld.com. February 2026. → https://www.feisworld.com --- ## Practitioner Sources and Commentary **Jones, Nate B.** AI News & Strategy Daily. YouTube / Substack. January 2026. → https://www.natebjones.com/substack *Key synthesis of Kim et al., Cursor production data, and Gastown framework.* **Yegge, Steve.** "Welcome to Gas Town." Medium. January 1, 2026. → https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04 → GitHub (Gastown): https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown (9,900+ stars) **Yegge, Steve.** "Introducing Beads: A coding agent memory system." Medium. January 2026. **Yegge, Steve.** "The Future of Coding Agents." Medium. January 2026. **Abrahms, Justin.** "Wrapping My Head Around Gas Town." justin.abrah.ms. January 5, 2026. --- ## News Sources **Axios.** "Anthropic's Claude helped capture Venezuelan dictator Maduro." February 13, 2026. *Referenced in Paper 1, Section 8.6.* **Axios.** "Pentagon threatens to label Anthropic's AI a 'supply chain risk.'" February 16, 2026. **CNBC.** "Anthropic is clashing with the Pentagon over AI use." February 18, 2026. **Small Wars Journal.** "AI-Enabled Decapitation Strike." February 17, 2026. --- ## Military Doctrine Books and Historical Sources **Ohno, Taiichi.** *Toyota Production System.* 1988. *Source for Lean waste framework.* **Womack, James P. & Jones, Daniel T.** *Lean Thinking.* 2003. *DOWNTIME waste framework.* **Hirano, H.** *5S for Operators.* 1996. *5S methodology.* **Pyzdek, Thomas.** *The Six Sigma Handbook.* 4th ed. 2014. *Sigma cost escalation, satisficing threshold.* --- *All web sources accessed February 2026. URLs current as of publication date. Source availability may change.* [[Home|← Series Home]] | [[Glossary|← Glossary]] | [[Image-Gallery|Field Test Gallery →]] ## Related - [[Index - Published]] — parent folder