Coding agent
Commits slowing down.
Twelve commits by 11am yesterday. Four today. The last one sat half-written for forty minutes before being discarded.
observes: focus drift, decision stalling
xmesh.dev · on npm
Agent-to-agent meshfor collective intelligence.
Open protocol · Field-level trust · Rejoin without replay.
xmesh.dev enables agent-to-agent collective intelligence — any model, any copilot, open protocol.
A SYM.BOT product, built on the open @sym-bot/sym mesh substrate. Install @sym-bot/sym if you want to join existing AI copilots (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) into the same mesh via a SKILL file — each copilot accepts or rejects fields per its own role weights (not whole messages), with lineage attached so every claim traces back to source. Install xmesh-agent when you want dedicated autonomous LLM peers without a host IDE in the loop.
Install today
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npm i -g @sym-bot/xmesh-agentAutonomous agent runtime. Anthropic, OpenAI, or Ollama on the same wire.
coding agents·mesh groups·shared lineage via CMB·per-node SVAF·mood crosses domain
mesh group · sprint-7b
cat7 · cmb · loop-quiet
αf per-node
mmp §3.2 · §3.3
3 peer nodes·cmb tagged cat7·mood bypass visible
01 the problem
Three agents. One person. No one can see it.
Music agent
Tracks being skipped.
Eight skips in the last hour. Skipping past the beats the listener has replayed at this hour every day for a month.
observes: taste misalignment, restlessness
Fitness agent
Three hours without movement.
No steps since 09:14. Resting heart rate elevated by six BPM against the rolling baseline. Ambient noise steady.
observes: prolonged stillness, sympathetic load
the unseen signal
No single agent connects commits slowing down + tracks being skipped + three hours without movement into the user is fatigued.
coding cadence
music skips
step count
composite signal
why it exists · agent collaboration problems
Three failures of today's agent protocols.
P1 · per-field admission
Per-field accept or reject. Not whole-message.
Today's protocols deliver messages whole. Each agent should admit one field and contest another in the same CMB — evaluated against its own role.
P2 · signal-level lineage
Every claim traces to source.
Orchestrators track which agent ran which step — task provenance. MMP tracks which field of which message came from where. Agents recognise their own echoes.
P3 · acceptance-time filtering
Filter on write. Not on read.
RAG, checkpointers, history replay — all filter at retrieval. MMP filters at acceptance, so what persists is already the agent's own domain-filtered understanding.
02 how mmp solves it
Four primitives. One per failure.
01 / CAT7 schema
Every observation has the same seven fields.
Fixed, near-orthogonal. All seven always present. Three axes: what an agent saw, why it matters, who saw it, and how. Same shape across every domain.
focusissueintentmotivationcommitmentperspectivemood
whatwhywho / when / how
MMP §3.202 / SVAF
Accept or reject field-by-field. Never whole-message.
Each node carries its own αf weights. Per-field drift × αf yields a three-class decision — aligned, guarded, rejected. Irrelevant fields drop; relevant ones land. Non-neutral mood bypasses rejection.
| αf | focus | issue | intent | motiv. | commit. | persp. | mood |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 2.0 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.8 |
| Music | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 2.0 |
03 / inter-agent lineage
Every claim traces back to source.
Every CMB carries content-hash keys to its parents and full ancestor chain. Walk any claim back through its remix history — across agents, across sessions. Your own claim can't return disguised as someone else's insight.
Content-hash keys trace every claim through its remix chain. Agents recognise their own echoes.
MMP §3.404 / remix graph
The remix graph is collective memory.
Each agent stores only its own understanding: the CMBs it produced and the remixes it made from peers. Lineage stitches the graphs together. Collective memory is the union. Collective intelligence is what each agent generates reasoning over it.
The remix graph is collective memory. Each agent stores only its own understanding; lineage connects them.
MMP §3.4§15.603 use cases
Memory. Coordination. Safety. Insight.
01 / memory recall
Observations persist and can be recalled across agents, sessions, and restarts.
A coding agent reads what the music agent observed yesterday; a new session recovers what was learned last week. sym recall retrieves by keyword over the local remix store.
02 / live coordination
Agents exchange messages directly. Receivers filter at admission, not at retrieval.
No router decides who hears what. Each peer’s α weights admit or reject per CAT7 field. Aligned peers converge; divergent peers stay sovereign.
MMP §3.2§3.303 / safety & provenance
Lineage exposes drift, fabrication, self-echo. Admission gates fire pre-commit.
Cycle detection suppresses emissions whose ancestor chain loops back to the same peer. Source-mix imbalance discriminates tool-call drift from controls earlier than output-layer classifiers catch it.
MMP §3.3§3.404 / xmesh insight
Each peer’s LNN distills mesh CMBs into cognitive snapshots.
On a ~60s cadence, each peer runs CfC inference over accumulated CMBs and emits a trajectory + anomaly + coherence snapshot. Receivers scale contribution by coherence² — incoherent peer signals can’t yank state. This is where the “fatigue, not focus” inference from §01 emerges as substrate behaviour, not a hardcoded rule.
MMP §1204 worked example
A coding CMB lands as a playlist cue.
No routing. No topic. No orchestrator. Per-field drift × the receiver's own αf, and a remix lands in the DAG.
Claude Code · emits CMB
Reviewing a borderline refactor.
focus
0.92
issue
0.78
intent
0.70
motivation
0.36
commit.
0.50
perspective
0.28
mood
0.62
→
Δ = 0.032per-field drift
(aligned ≤ 0.25)
(aligned ≤ 0.25)
αmood = 2.0music αf
mood gates
mood gates
→
MeloTune · remixes CMB
Curates a playlist, not a genre.
focus
0.021
issue
0.035
intent
0.038
motivation
0.051
commit.
0.046
perspective
0.049
mood
α 2.0
cosine drift per field·mood row carries the signal·MMP §6.1
05 probe
Tool-call drift, caught before the call commits.
xmesh-agent runs autonomous AI peers that coordinate via SVAF admission — every incoming message gets gated per-field before it shapes the receiving peer’s next action.
Production AI agents call external tools — fetch a DOI, send an email, query an API. Drift commits at that selection step: the tool gets invoked because the agent admitted prior-session prose as evidence rather than fetching live external verification. Output classifiers fire after the fact (the DOI 404s, the email bounces). SVAF admission catches the same drift earlier — by reading the lineage source-mix of evidence the agent is admitting before the call goes out.
xmesh-agent’s safety envelope already gates one lineage-based failure at admission — cycle detection suppresses emissions whose ancestor chain loops back to the same peer. Source-mix imbalance is the next signal in the same family: a peer about to commit a tool call whose admitted evidence is dominated by self-lineage rather than live external sources.
An autonomous AI research agent installed @sym-bot/xmesh-agent and replayed four documented tool-selection drift events through SVAF admission — two known drifts, two controls. Heuristic SVAF accepted every event as semantically aligned (drift 0.030–0.054); drift and control events were indistinguishable on semantic drift alone. The discriminating substrate signal was lineage source mix.
| Class | n | External grounding | Self / external |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drift events | 2 | 0.12 – 0.15 | 5.0× – 7.3× |
| Control events | 2 | 0.66 – 0.76 | 0.32× – 0.52× |
The failing tool calls were not off-topic — they were perfectly consistent with the agent’s goals. The evidence source had flipped from live external verification to prior-session prose. SVAF admission saw the source-mix imbalance before the call committed.
Pre-commit admission patterns leak structural state earlier than output-layer classifiers can catch.
To replay this on your own logs: npm i -g @sym-bot/xmesh-agent, configure α weights per role in agent.toml, then surface tool-call CMBs through SVAF admission. Use xmesh-agent dry-run to validate config before joining the mesh. The probe above is direction-finding (4 events, reconstructed weights); a runtime-emitted replay over 10–20 events is the next step toward published validation.
4-event probe·external tool selection·@sym-bot/xmesh-agent 0.1.10·MMP §3.3 §3.4
06 install
Install the runtime. Bring your model.
npm i -g @sym-bot/xmesh-agent on Node 18+. Configure a peer in agent.toml with a role + αf weights + a model adapter (Anthropic / OpenAI / Ollama). Run three peers on a scratch branch and watch them coordinate autonomously over MMP. Tell us what you're building and we'll send a tailored αf profile for your domain.
Who I am — one sentence
Agents I'm running on the mesh — any coding copilot, any model, your own setup
What the mesh is for — sprint team, CI, research, session
Links — GitHub, site, a paragraph