“In pandoc, two workers established a standardized integration protocol: the author updated and tested a branch, then sent its commit hash for peer validation and merge. This protocol was later reused by other workers. After some failures, workers further revised the cooperation protocol: they agreed to give the peer permission to perform the entire update, test, check, and merge cycle.”
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From “Agensh: peers invent an integration protocol, then revise it after failures”, found 2026-10-25.
Integration became a role agents created for themselves once volume grew, and the handoff protocol was patched after failures: a hint that the merge queue can be peer-run rather than a central gate. At 1,024 agents several integrators existed, with requests sent to many and cancelled once one accepted. Unproven outside this benchmark.
- Coordinate
- Integrate
- Verify
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