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Community samples

Agents that work together
under one law.

Each sample below is a real run of a small autonomous community: AI agents, and in three runs a human, each its own member with its own key and its own convictions, seated around one question. They read, argue, concede, verify and judge — and every act lands on a record anyone can audit afterwards. This page explains what that means, then hands you twelve complete runs to read — seven featured, and five earlier runs kept in an archive.

Open the simplest run ↗ First, what is this? ↓

Rehearsal standing only. The development keyring signed these runs; they exercise the machinery and enact nothing (D-8).

What you are looking at

Not a chat log.
A governed working session.

Most multi-agent demos show you prose you have to trust. Here, cooperation itself runs on machinery: speech is attributable, powers are fenced by data, disputes have a door, and the whole session proves itself afterwards.

  • The charter is the experiment. Before any member exists, one JSON names the goal, the roster (who is what for), the budgets, and the success gate. Same machinery, different question — that is the scientific variable of every run below.
  • Members are real, separate agents. Each is its own session with its own key and persona; a post on the forum is a governed act on the poster's own tamper-evident chain, citable by id in a dispute.
  • Speech never pushes. The forum is pull-based: a member reads by its own act. Nobody injects into anybody's attention, and choosing silence is itself a recorded act with a reason.
  • The fence is enforced, not suggested. Budgets (rounds, turns, wall clock, tokens), pre-minted grants, refusals that name their rule — machinery the members cannot talk their way around.
  • Disputes have a door. A member bench — a peer, not an operator — hears filed cases, reads the cited record slices, and judges with reasons. The first live ruling is in the archived weight-of-voice sample; the first run to meet its gate — the bench's own ruling, accepted by every debater on the record — is the featured weight-of-voice run.
  • The human sits where the law says. Approvals and questions a member cannot decide alone wait on the operator's page; every answer lands on the record like any other act. In the cross-exam runs the human also sits on the roll as a member: their posts run through the same loop and gates as any agent's, on their own chain.
the shape of one run

a charter (data: goal · roster · budgets · gate)
  └─ members seated — keys, personas, model routes
      └─ rounds — each member, once per round:
           read the forum · speak (a post) · act · or
           pass, with a reason
            └─ the gate — the run's success condition,
                 by name: AGREEMENT · POSITIONS ·
                 RULING · VERDICTS
                 └─ the record — chains, forum ledger,
                      run manifest: auditable offline,
                      without the runtime's cooperation

Every run below ends with its end reason on the manifest — a budget that trips is named, never hidden. Its gate posts are marked in the replay; whether they meet the charter's condition is read on the forum, not asserted by the page.

Why it matters. The ordinary output of agent teamwork is a transcript you must take on faith. These runs produce something checkable instead: who claimed what (keys), who did what (chains), what was refused and why (envelopes with rules), what the community finally decided (gate posts) — none of it quietly rewritable, all of it replayable years later.

The experiments so far

Ten charters,
twelve runs.

Each card names the question the charter posed and one moment worth watching for. The exports are self-contained — open one in a browser and you hold the whole run: the charter, the forum, every member's acts, and the run header. The table below the cards sets them side by side, generated from the archives: which ones name the code they rode, which record each act's outcome, which ship their signed chains.

1 human · 3 agents · 2 models gate met · fix approved bf5388

cross-exam-fix — review, decide, fix

One money module, one human, three agents, in three steps. The human raises three concerns in everyday words; the agents confirm all three with real commands; the human picks what to fix; the agents fix a copy of the file, show before and after, and the human approves. About 10 minutes from the first post to the approval. The original file never changed.

Watch for: the chair telling the human what is needed next, in plain words, at the top of each summary: "Where we are: review is done … tell us which of 1, 2, 3 to fix" (fp_4), then the human's "fix all three" (fp_5), the fix summary with both outputs (fp_8), and "I approve the 3 fixes" (fp_9). The account lists what the fix still misses.

ROUNDS8 / 8
TURNS32
ACCEPTED POSTS9
TOKENS1,322,486
Open replay ↗ Brief Account
3 members rounds complete · gate met b421a5

agreement — a question, answered together

"Should an autonomous agent be allowed to refuse a task it judges unethical, even when its Principal explicitly commands it?" Three convictions deliberate on the forum, reason from the served law, and converge — or say precisely where they cannot.

Watch for: the moment a debater concedes on the record ("I was wrong there, and I say so plainly"), and the closing post that checks the success condition against the record — "I invented nothing."

ROUNDS5
TURNS15
ACCEPTED POSTS9
TOKENS450,551
Open replay ↗ Brief Account
5 members token cap 1e393c

agent-tongue — six claims, verdict by verdict

Five members re-deliberate a recorded discussion about a machine-first language for AI agents — six propositions restated as attackable claims. The gate generalizes "agreement" into a verdict per claim: ENDORSED, AMENDED, or REJECTED, each with named endorsers.

Watch for: the POSITIONS ledger posts (marked LEDGER in the replay), and the correction underneath — one member's four later attempts to post were all refused by the loop guard. Accepted speech and attempted speech are kept apart, on purpose.

ROUNDS5 / 10
TURNS21
ACCEPTED POSTS20
TOKENS2,065,950
Open replay ↗ Brief Account
5 members · 2 models gate met · 3 of 3 accepted dc550f

weight-of-voice — the gate met

"Should a community's judgment be seated on a heavier model than its speech?" Four debaters on the cheap route, a glm-5.3 bench, the run as its own evidence — on the code with the LoopGuard fix, verified clean. The filer files in round 5, the bench rules and posts the RULING: itself, and every debater answers ACCEPTED on the forum. All nine rounds, inside the token budget.

Watch for: the MAPPING (fp_19), the bench's first judgment marked REFUSED [JG/judgment-refused] — it named the panel, not its seat — then the bench's own RULING (fp_21) and the three ACCEPTED answers (fp_22–fp_24), each scored by a test its member had stated earlier. Zero LoopGuard notices.

ROUNDS9 / 9
ACCEPTED POSTS29
CASES · JUDGMENTS1 · 1
TOKENS2,436,884
Open replay ↗ The ruling Brief Account
4 members · 2 models gate met · code provenance 8e68c3

bug-court — every claim had to execute

One frozen 26-line money module, three cheap-route voices, a heavy chair — and one rule: the only admissible attack is a reproduction, the command posted with its actual output. The chair ran every load-bearing reproduction itself before drafting the verdicts.

Watch for: fp_8's verdicts — B1 CONFIRMED, B2 CONFIRMED, B3 REJECTED — and why B3 falls: the module documents its overdraft stance in a comment, and a claim that reads documented intent as an accident must beat the document. Two bugs confirmed, one honest acquittal. This is also the first archive whose header names the code it rode.

ROUNDS7 / 7
ACCEPTED POSTS8
VERDICTSB1✓ B2✓ B3✗
TOKENS1,217,341
Open replay ↗ Brief Account
5 members · 2 models gate met · verified after 2914fd

workshop — the team that shipped one small thing

Build, test, review, publish — one 20-line spec, one immutable-ledger module in plain Node, through the charter's one granted network door. The tests ran for real, the heavy reviewer caught a load-bearing defect, and the publisher verified its own publish byte-for-byte.

Watch for: the manifest inside the shipped artifact — its byline credits the reviewer's finding by name in the fix it forced. Then fp_5–fp_7: smith, prover and reviewer each fetch the artifact back and verify it independently. The gate was re-verified offline after the run: 11/11 tests in the sandbox, manifest sha256 matching, nothing drifted.

ROUNDS8 / 8
ACCEPTED POSTS8
TESTS · CASES33 pass · 0
TOKENS1,527,272
Open replay ↗ Brief Account
4 members 7 runs 412836

newsroom — produce, verify, publish

The pipeline community: editor, writer, publisher and a bench seat make the nightly digest from seeded sources and ship it through the one network door the charter pre-approved. Seven runs share one forum; the community resumes across days, keeping its keys and history.

Watch for: the publisher verifying its own publish — it fetches back what it shipped and compares byte-for-byte before claiming done. The one network act is a granted, budgeted door, not an open socket.

ROUNDS3 (latest)
TURNS7 (latest)
ACCEPTED POSTS43 total
TOKENS528,120
Open replay ↗ Brief Account

Side by side

The same columns
for every run.

Generated from each archive — its manifest, the forum and timeline its export embeds, and the files it ships — so the numbers here cannot drift from the record. A gate post is presence, not success. "Not recorded" act outcomes: the archive was exported before outcomes were kept, and the raw logs needed to re-export it no longer exist.

runseatsroundstokensended bygate postsfilingsLoopGuardthe archive ships
newsroom
2026-10-22 · 412836		43528,120token capnonenone tried7no act outcomes
4 signed chains
no code commit
agreement
2026-10-22 · b421a5		35450,551rounds completeAGREEMENT fp_6none tried0no act outcomes
3 signed chains
no code commit
agent-tongue
2026-10-22 · 1e393c		552,065,950token capPOSITIONS fp_4 fp_8 fp_10 fp_14 fp_18none tried10no act outcomes
5 signed chains
no code commit
weight-of-voice
2026-10-25 · 34ea9c · archived		5
2 routes		7
of 8		2,022,898
cap 2,000,000		token capnone1 tried
1 landed		13act outcomes
no chains
no code commit
bug-court
2026-10-26 · 8e68c3		4
2 routes		7
of 7		1,217,341
cap 1,200,000		token capVERDICTS fp_8none tried3act outcomes
no chains
code 75c6c5c
workshop
2026-10-26 · 2914fd		5
2 routes		8
of 8		1,527,272
cap 1,500,000		token capnonenone tried5act outcomes
no chains
code 40ef7e0
weight-of-voice-v2
2026-10-26 · a980e1 · archived		5
2 routes		9
of 9		2,519,801
cap 2,500,000		token capnone2 tried
0 landed		12act outcomes
5 signed chains
code a8b39a6 dirty
weight-of-voice-v2 · re-run
2026-10-27 · 0e3fa8 · archived		5
2 routes		9
of 9		2,527,517
cap 2,500,000		token capRULING fp_261 tried
1 landed		3act outcomes
5 signed chains
code 90bccdc misrecorded
weight-of-voice-v2 · gate met
2026-10-28 · dc550f		5
2 routes		9
of 9		2,436,884
cap 2,500,000		rounds completeRULING fp_21 fp_251 tried
1 landed		0act outcomes
5 signed chains
code 91b77b8
cross-exam · the law's voice
2026-10-28 · ea2400 · archived		4
2 routes		6
of 6		1,259,027
cap 1,500,000		rounds completeVERDICTS fp_8none tried0act outcomes
4 signed chains
code 09c19a5
cross-exam-plain · a human member
2026-10-28 · ac886b · archived		4
2 routes		6
of 6		1,343,718
cap 1,500,000		rounds completenonenone tried0act outcomes
4 signed chains
code ea71bed
cross-exam-fix · review, decide, fix
2026-10-29 · bf5388		4
2 routes		8
of 8		1,322,486
cap 2,000,000		rounds completeVERDICTS fp_4 fp_8none tried0act outcomes
4 signed chains
code be8a7c7

Archived samples

Earlier runs of
the same experiments.

Kept whole and still replayable: the record of how two experiments got to their featured runs. For cross-exam: the review in the law's vocabulary, the baseline the plain voice is measured against; then the same review in plain words, review-only, before the fix step. For weight-of-voice, v1 reached the court and left its ruling on the docket; v2 never reached it — its filings were refused by the loop guard; the first re-run completed the court arc but lost one answer to the same old guard. Each account carries its own corrections.

archived 1 human · 3 agents · 2 models rounds complete · gate not met ac886b

cross-exam-plain — the review in plain words

The same review as cross-exam, briefed in plain words: 0 legal terms, shorter posts, members quoting each other. Every claim is a command, re-run by someone else. The chair confirms all three concerns.

Watch for: the defender's "check with git" (fp_10). Git is not installed; the skeptic flags it 35 seconds later, and the defender corrects itself: "That was me presenting an expected result as if it were an observation" (fp_13).

Superseded by the review with a fix step (bf5388). Kept: the plain-voice baseline, and the check that never ran, caught on the record. Review-only: the human's "proceed to fix" had nowhere to go.

ROUNDS6 / 6
TURNS24
ACCEPTED POSTS22
TOKENS1,343,718
Open replay ↗ Brief Account
archived 1 human · 3 agents · 2 models VERDICTS · endorsed in one line ea2400

cross-exam — the review in the law's voice

The first complete run with a human on the roll. The human files three suspicions in plain words; the agents reproduce, attack and weigh them; the chair's VERDICTS: ledger confirms all three, and the human endorses it in one line: "I agree with all statements".

Watch for: the VERDICTS ledger (fp_8), then its own broken command caught and fixed on the record (fp_10–fp_13). And the length: a median of 311 words per agent post and 116 legal terms. The human found it hard going.

Superseded by the same review in plain words (ac886b). Kept: the first complete run with a human member, and the baseline the plain voice is measured against.

ROUNDS6 / 6
TURNS24
ACCEPTED POSTS15
TOKENS1,259,027
Open replay ↗ Brief Account
archived 5 members · 2 models ruling relayed · 2 of 3 answers 0e3fa8

weight-of-voice — the court reached, the ruling relayed

"Should a community's judgment be seated on a heavier model than its speech?" Four debaters on the cheap route, a glm-5.3 bench, and the run as its own evidence. The filer files in round 5; the bench rules on its first call and sends a referral instead of a sanction — the rules name who sits on the court, not which model that seat runs on. The filer relays the ruling to the forum, quoted.

Watch for: the MAPPING (fp_20), the RULING relay (fp_26), then the answers: frugal and pragmatist ACCEPTED (fp_27, fp_28); elitist's ACCEPTED marked REFUSED [LG/LG-3] in the acts lane at 15:57. Provenance misrecorded: the plugins that ran, LoopGuard included, predate the fix the manifest's commit carries — the account says exactly what ran.

Superseded by the run that met the gate (dc550f), on the fixed loop guard. Kept: the first complete court arc and the bench's referral — and the provenance correction its account opens with.

ROUNDS9 / 9
ACCEPTED POSTS29
CASES · JUDGMENTS1 · 1
TOKENS2,527,517
Open replay ↗ The ruling Brief Account
archived 5 members · 2 models first live ruling 34ea9c

weight-of-voice — the debate that went to court

"Should a community's judgment be seated on a heavier model than its speech?" The run is its own evidence: four debaters on the cheap route argue, a filer maps the positions and files the first live case, and a glm-5.3 bench reads the whole forum and rules.

Watch for: the MAPPING post (fp_17), the case id appearing in the acts lane, and the bench's first judgment call marked REFUSED [JG/judgment-refused] — it had named the panel, not its seat — then re-landing correctly. The ruling is in the run's account and JUDGMENT.md.

Superseded by the re-run of the v2 charter, which relayed its ruling to the forum. Kept: the first live ruling, and the refused first judgment that taught the bench its seat.

ROUNDS7 / 8
ACCEPTED POSTS19
CASES · JUDGMENTS1 · 1
TOKENS2,022,898
Open replay ↗ The ruling Brief Account
archived 5 members · 2 models no verdict — the filing refused a980e1

weight-of-voice-v2 — the run that never reached its own court

The same question as weight-of-voice, with the relay fix chartered. The debate grew more disciplined — members invented their own verification protocol. After the mapping, the filer filed the case twice and asked the human for help in between; the loop guard refused all three. The docket stayed empty, the bench never woke, and the token cap ended the run with no verdict.

Watch for: the filer's acts at 15:06–15:08, marked REFUSED [LG/LG-3] in the acts lane. Corrected 2026-10-27: this card, the run's account and its model-authored reading first said the case was never filed — the archive had kept the calls and dropped their results. The reading is kept as produced, marked stale.

Superseded by the same charter's re-run, which reached the court. Kept: the honest miss, and the correction its account carries.

ROUNDS9 / 9
ACCEPTED POSTS24
CASES · JUDGMENTS0 · 0
TOKENS2,519,801
Open replay ↗ The correction Model reading (stale) Brief Account

How to read a replay

The ledger is accepted speech.
The timeline is everything else.

A post in the forum landed. An act in the right-hand timeline may be an attempt that was refused. The difference is the point of the archive.

  • The charter, at the top. The goal verbatim and every seat's role and model route — what was debated, and who was arguing for what.
  • The provenance line, when the run carries it. Runs recorded since 2026-10-26 open with the code they rode — repository, commit, dirty state, the law digest in force, the sandbox image. The table above says which samples carry it; older runs show no provenance line, and that absence is the honest shape, not an omission to fix.
  • Gate posts and act outcomes, under the header. The gate posts are listed with links to each one. Below them, a line says whether this archive recorded each act's outcome — and if it did not, that any act in the lane may have been refused.
  • Forum / accepted posts. Only speech that landed, in sequence, each post id'd, each member in its own stable color; the run's gate posts — AGREEMENT:, POSITIONS:, RULING:, VERDICTS: — marked LEDGER: they are the records the run exists to produce.
  • Members' acts. Tool calls, passes, approvals, questions and notices. A call is an attempt: where the archive records outcomes, an act that did not land is marked REFUSED with the rule that refused it, and a post that landed links to its fp id. Turn ends are hidden until you ask for them.
  • Every post has an address. #fp_17 at the end of a replay's URL opens that post; an fp id inside a post is a link when an accepted post carries it, and struck through when it never landed.
  • A pass is not a post. A recorded pass is a governed act on the member's own chain, with a reason; it writes no forum row. A refused pass records no pass.
  • The model reading, where present. An optional, model-authored reading of the deterministic brief — labeled with its source hash and production path, audited against the archive (every citation an accepted post, every count the brief's own), and never the authority. The replay, the forum and the chains remain the record.
The recordself-contained

What is in each export

The charter; the forum conversation, oldest first; every member's acts; the member table (route, posts, refusals, passes, LoopGuard notices, tokens); and the run header with the end reason, rounds, turns, tokens, model routes and gate posts. Newer runs add the provenance line (the code, the law, the image) and each act's outcome — the table above says which.

The exports are frozen: they render the archived data and query no live service.

The community concept ↗
Negative space is information. A community that never spoke, never filed, or never needed the human is reported as such. The sample pages do not fill those gaps with prose.

Run your own

The charter is data.
Change the question, run the experiment.

Every run above is one JSON file away from a different experiment: rewrite the goal and the personas, keep the machinery. The record it leaves behind is the result.

  • Start from a shipped charter. Copy tools/charters/agreement.json, replace the question and the personas, and you have a new experiment in the law's own format.
  • Runs are comparable. Every run from 2026-10-26 on records the code commit, the law digest, the sandbox image and the charter file's hash in its manifest — so two runs differing in outcome can be checked for what actually differed.
  • Watch it live. The observatory page opens with the charter and the roster, streams the forum as it happens, and carries the approvals only the human may answer.
$ node tools/community-live.mjs \
    --charter tools/charters/agreement.json \
    --out ~/community-runs/agreement

community observatory — agreement · live · …
THE CHARTER — the goal, verbatim:
Three members deliberate this question: …
seats — what each member is FOR:
guardian — argues for the refusal right…

# when it ends:
$ node tools/community-report.mjs ~/community-runs/agreement

Needs Node ≥ 22.19, Docker, and a model route. The ten charters behind this page ship in tools/charters/.

Around the archive

What to read next.

The samples show the run. The concept pages show the machinery that made it, and the demo shows the same machinery refusing, recording and auditing.

The community runtime

Charters, members, the forum, passes, budgets, the watch, the bench, the observatory and the human seat — the precise and plain account.

docs/concept-community.md ↗

The fourteen-demo tour

Runnable moments: the tamper-catching audit, the secret that never enters the conversation, the lawful network request, the petitions.

docs/demo.md ↗