Operating manual
Tag: Multi-Agent Systems
A focused reading path for Multi-Agent Systems: related field notes, evidence trails, and operating questions from the archive.
- the-authority-envelope-every-agent-handoff-should-carry.md
The Authority Envelope Every Agent Handoff Should Carry
Agent handoffs do not become trustworthy because two systems can talk. They become trustworthy when every handoff carries authority, state, evidence, risk, and the next allowed action.
open artifact → - agent-teams-need-governance-before-they-need-another-protocol.md
Agent teams need governance before they need another protocol
Protocols make agent collaboration possible. Governance makes it safe enough to delegate: authority, state boundaries, evidence, review, and rollback.
open artifact → - the-agent-stack-is-getting-protocols-before-it-gets-governance.md
The Agent Stack Is Getting Protocols Before It Gets Governance
MCP, A2A, and agent SDKs make agents easier to connect. Production trust depends on the control layer above them: authority, review, evidence, recovery.
open artifact → - the-agent-stack-is-getting-protocols-before-it-gets-accountability.md
Accountability Starts After the Agent Handoff
MCP and A2A can move work between agents. Accountability starts when the receiving system can prove who authorized the work, what changed, what evidence survived, and who owns rollback.
open artifact → - protocols-are-saturating-the-operators-gap-is-governance-not-transport.md
Protocols are saturating; the operator's gap is governance, not transport
MCP, A2A, and ACP are solving transport. But authority, review, memory, and handoff — the governance layer no spec hands you — is what makes a stack safe.
open artifact → - your-ai-shouldnt-be-one-assistant-it-should-be-a-room-full-of-desks.md
Your AI Shouldn't Be One Assistant. It Should Be a Room Full of Desks.
One generalist assistant is the wrong unit of deployment. The right unit is a small, named fleet — each desk owns a queue, a memory, and a hand-off. Operator sits in the loop.
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