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adapt-quorum

Domain: adapt · Model class: cheap

Use when a user wants agent task assignment to emerge from agent availability signals rather than central dispatch. Triggers: “decentralised agent coordination”, “quorum sensing”, “agents that self-organise”, “emergent task assignment”, “no central scheduler”, “agents claim tasks when ready”, “load-based routing”. Also trigger when a user has 5+ agents and is frustrated that a central orchestrator is a bottleneck or single point of failure, or when someone wants a workflow that scales horizontally without redesign.

Each agent emits signal {specialisations, load, quality_recent}. Quorum listener aggregates signal_sum=Σ(quality_recent×(1-load)) for matching agents. When signal_sum≥quorum_threshold, broadcast task.

  • “decentralised agent coordination”
  • “quorum sensing”
  • “agents that self-organise”
  • “emergent task assignment”
  • “no central scheduler”
  • “agents claim tasks when ready”
  • “load-based routing”
  • “single point of failure”
  • the user wants a one-off improvement without ongoing adaptation or structural change
  1. What readiness or availability signals can agents publish?
  2. What quorum threshold and minimum participation define a valid claim?
  3. How should confidence or load factor into the signal sum?
  4. What fallback path should run when no quorum forms?
  • routing decision artifact
  • configuration and telemetry summary
  • next-action explanation
  • validation or operator notes

flow-orchestrator · orch-agent-orchestrator · prompt-chaining