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## Third-Party License Notices

KAOS integrates ideas from the following open-source projects. Their original
licenses are preserved and remain in effect for their respective work.

**claude-mem** (cross-agent memory design)
Copyright (c) Alex Newman (@thedotmack)
Licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL-3.0)
https://github.com/thedotmack/claude-mem

**LogAct** (shared log coordination protocol)
Balakrishnan, Shi, Lu, Goel, Baral, Lyu, Dredze (2026), Meta AI Research
arXiv:2604.07988 — research paper, not a software license
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07988

**MemPalace** (AAAK context compaction)
Copyright (c) milla-jovovich
https://github.com/milla-jovovich/mempalace

**CORAL** (stagnation detection, co-evolution)
arXiv:2604.01658 — research paper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01658

**EvoSkills** (surrogate verifier, failure diagnostics)
arXiv:2604.01687 — research paper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01687

**Meta-Harness** (automated strategy optimization)
arXiv:2603.28052 — research paper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28052
