Agentic Social Affordance Framework (ASAF): Agent Identity Design as a Collaboration Interface in Multi-Agent Systems

The paper introduces the Agentic Social Affordance Framework (ASAF), which emphasizes the role of agent identity design in enhancing collaboration within multi-agent systems. ASAF delineates three mechanisms—Identity Signaling, Behavioral Priming, and Collaborative Governance—and introduces a four-tier Identity Signal Fidelity Spectrum to guide design decisions, highlighting the orthogonality between social affordance and engineering orchestration. This framework is significant for practitioners as it provides a structured approach to designing multi-agent interactions that can improve human-agent collaboration outcomes.