Consensus

Consensus v0.1¶

Thought Broker (Multi-Agent) — PBFT-lite¶

• Agents: AUREA, EVE, HERMES, JADE (+ optional others)
• Phases: Proposal → Pre-vote → Pre-commit → Commit (max 3 rounds, 90s TTL)
• Threshold: 0.85 weighted agreement (default)
• Weighting: equal weights unless policy grants domain-weighted roles
• Output: Deliberation Proof (see schema)

Ledger Consensus — PBFT-lite over Attestation Batches¶

• Batch limits: ≤ 1,000 records, ≤ 2 MB
• Primary rotation: every N batches or 15 minutes
• Finality: < 2 seconds on LAN, < 500 ms jitter budget
• Light-client root: hourly Merkle root anchored to external ledger (Bitcoin OP_RETURN or public transparency log)