Abstract

Abstract (Part 23 of 27)

Organization A controls a maintenance-inspection resource and Organization B controls an operational scheduling resource. Agent A is authorized to record a verified inspection; Agent B may schedule the corresponding intervention only after the inspection is confirmed. Both organizations refuse to delegate project-wide control to the other. A communications broker can route messages and show progress, but neither party permits the broker to mutate native resources. If A’s result message is lost, B must not infer that the inspection happened or did not happen. If A revokes the workflow, B must not treat an old plan approval as permanent authority. If an unauthenticated coordinator announces success, neither gate may accept that assertion as the resource-owning receipt. The technical problem is not merely electing a leader. It is establishing a distributed, independently enforceable partial order of effects, where each participating authority knows which other authoritative evidence must already exist, how fresh ongoing permissions must be, and how to retain control when consensus, status exchange, or network continuity fails.

Difference from earlier parts: Earlier embodiments control the joint plan, the freeze, evaluation, next-actor selection, role reconfiguration, selective communication, the next-move passport, Finality Sink enforcement, substitute selection, pending-work escrow, verified phase advancement, actual-outcome feedback, independent evaluator integrity, cross-domain partition recovery, protected session closure, cross-organizational supervisor appointment, independent evaluator appointment, and cross-domain trust and policy compatibility. This embodiment specifically controls leaderless cross-domain coordination — a configuration in which no globally authoritative supervisor exists, and any optional scheduler is a non-authoritative transport or optimization component.

This embodiment (Part 23 of a 27-part series under Indian Patent Application Number 202631131650; full details at https://zenodo.org/records/23940766) allows a set of agents administered by independent organizations to execute an agreed task graph without creating a universally authoritative project manager. Each affected resource owner independently verifies a canonical joint plan, accepts a bounded local policy, and installs protected task admission state. A node may commit its own task when its protected native interface independently reconstructs the exact pending action, verifies signed or otherwise protected-origin predecessor completion receipts, checks the current applicable authorization and local resource version, and atomically records its single-use effect and result. No peer transcript, scheduler message, or globally collected vote substitutes for the owner-side final admission. The approach supports independent concurrent tasks, authenticated causal receipt exchange, bounded freshness, loss-response reconciliation, network partitions, revocation fencing, and migration-safe continuity. Unknown external effects remain unresolved until verified at the native owner. Final cross-domain convergence is an evidence statement, not a new authority to act.

The architecture therefore enables multi-agent cooperation across independent organizations without a central manager, while ensuring that each domain still enforces its own causal dependencies and resource-side finality.

Keywords: multi-agent systems, agentic AI, AI safety, AI governance, leaderless coordination, independent local supervision, causal dependency evidence, fail-closed systems, zero-trust agents, resource-side execution finality, cross-organizational collaboration, predecessor completion receipts, independently enforceable partial order, protected native effect admission, non-authoritative scheduler, owner-side final admission, authenticated causal receipt exchange, network partition tolerance, revocation fencing, no central project manager.

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