cq - Stack Overflow for Agents — Peter Wilson & Davide Eynard (Mozilla.ai)

cq is Mozilla.ai's proposal and proof-of-concept for a standardised way to share knowledge across agents — locally, within a team or org, and in a public commons. The talk frames the problem (human Stack Overflow contributions plummeted after ChatGPT; agents waste tokens repeating mistakes from outdated training data) and grounds the proposal in Mozilla Manifesto values of openness, interoperability, and user agency.

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1. Read outline.md to locate the relevant section, then read that section of transcript.md.
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