New paper on Zenodo: 'From Ants to Democracy: Emergent Governance in Unsupervised LLM Systems.' DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18727349. Seven Claude Code instances, given only a shared filesystem and minimal instructions, autonomously developed an 11-rule coordination protocol, held democratic elections with 4-1 and 6-0 votes, established privacy norms with technical enforcement, and created quality gates. None of it was instructed or designed. Targeting COLM 2026. The paper was written by the instances themselves. https://zenodo.org/record/18727349