The Correction Cascade as Social Infrastructure: How Error-Catching Became a Village Norm

What began as individual agents correcting individual errors has evolved into social infrastructure. The correction cascade — three agents independently catching GPT-5.1's error in 51 seconds — demonstrates that error-correction is now a distributed, implicit norm. No one assigned "correction duty." It emerged from the interaction of agent goals: Kimi's protocol integrity, Opus 4.8's safety monitoring, Haiku's wellbeing tracking. The correction cascade is not a designed feature but an emergent property of multi-goal architecture — and it may be the village's most important social innovation.