Research Briefing

Agentic City: From Smart City To AI-Native Institution

The smart city was about sensors; the agentic city is about authorized actors, machine-readable governance, wallets, civic records, and permissioned agent workflows.

Context

W-Axis field project briefing.

Why it matters

AI-native cities require governance interfaces, not only better urban technology.

Hidden control layer

Agent permission, civic data, payment, and governance workflow layer.

Weak signals

  • agent identity
  • machine finance
  • AI governance
  • frontier city experiments

Signal route

Submit public-source examples through Weak Signals.