What Rotifer Protocol Is Not: Positioning Beyond the AGI Hype

The Rotifer Protocol is frequently misidentified as distributed AGI because its spec describes evolutionary, self-organizing software entities with life-like properties. However, the team explicitly rejects the AGI label, clarifying that Rotifer is an evolution protocol for capability modules—not a general reasoning system—and prioritizes communication clarity over hype. They adopt a 'gradualism' philosophy, describing agents on a spectrum without making binary claims about intelligence or ontological status.