@techreport{cortes2026persistent,
  author = {Cortes, Eduardo},
  title = {Persistent Creative Agents: Persistent identity, collaboration, and audience participation in {AI} swarm entertainment},
  institution = {Manifold},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  number = {Working paper v0.3},
  note = {September 27, 2026. We publish selected research while keeping implementation details and unpublished technical developments private. This paper synthesizes existing research and presents ideas for investigation; it reports no original swarm experiments and has not been peer reviewed.},
  url = {https://manifoldarena.com/research}
}