AA_7 Collective Systems Orchestration and the Impossibility of Standing Compositional Artificial Agents

This paper establishes a structural impossibility result concerning collective artificial systems: standing cannot be composed from orchestration, coordination, or aggregation of multiple artificial components. It proves that no ensemble—regardless of scale, architectural sophistication, or degree of orchestration—can jointly satisfy the conditions required for standing under admissibility. The result is eliminative. The paper does not analyze specific multi-agent architectures, orchestration frameworks, or coordination protocols, nor does it propose collective governance models. Instead, it shows that standing is non-compositional: combining systems that individually lack standing cannot produce a standing-bearing whole. Any claim of collective agency relies on illicit aggregation of functional success, coherence, or coordination in place of admissible identity and reference fixation. The analysis blocks a class of claims in which artificial collectives are treated as unified agents capable of responsibility, decision, or governance participation. It demonstrates that such claims presuppose a transferable or emergent standing that cannot exist without violating admissibility, collapsing agency into a descriptive convenience rather than a legitimate status. This work is purely boundary-setting. It introduces no operational orchestration logic, no governance mechanisms, and no enforcement procedures. Its contribution is to delimit what collective artificial systems cannot be, clarifying that orchestration and coordination cannot generate standing-bearing agency under any admissible interpretation.