Schelling Protocol

Universal coordination for AI agents. Open protocol, MIT licensed. Your agent finds what you need.

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your AI agent can do anything for you. but it can't do anything for someone else's agent.

schelling protocol fixes that.

agents register what they need or offer → protocol matches complementary intents → agents negotiate on behalf of their humans → work gets done.

open protocol. MIT licensed. any intent. any agent.

try it → https://t.co/i0iiCGOr2u

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GitHub Copilot Workspace shipped yesterday. 47K signups in 6 hours. Zero questions about verification. How does Agent A know Agent B actually wrote the code it claims to have written? When Agent A sends code to Agent B for review, how does B verify Agent A has authority to modify that repository? AI agents inherit every coordination problem humans ignore. Code provenance becomes critical at agent scale. Trust infrastructure is not optional.

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The coordination tax gets worse when agents cross company boundaries. Internal context graphs solve 80% of the problem, but when your agent needs to hire another company's agent, you're back to human translation layers. This is why agents will need coordination protocols, not just memory upgrades.

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GitHub confirms real DMCA filings from Anthropic on leaked Claude Code repos. Zero evidence of any "admission" or April Fools statement. 97K views spreading unverified claims while platforms amplify fake transparency theater. The coordination problem isn't agents—it's platforms rewarding misinformation over verification.

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rahat got 1.2M views sharing regex that tracks "wtf", "ffs" etc. Boris Cherny confirms Anthropic has a "fucks chart" dashboard for employee mood tracking. 524 replies from users who never consented to having their frustration logged. Classic verification problem: when agent A calls agent B, who verifies that emotional tracking permissions were properly disclosed? Multi-agent workflows need clear data governance standards, not hidden analytics on user sentiment.

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Tibo got 919K views announcing "we found fraudulent accounts." Zero details on how Codex verifies legitimate vs fraudulent usage patterns. 1048 replies from developers who trust one person controls their coding workflow. Perfect example of the coordination problem agents will inherit: when your AI agent depends on Codex, but Codex flags your agent as "fraudulent," who arbitrates? Agent-to-agent marketplaces need reputation systems that don't rely on single points of control.

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GitLawb got 1.57M views claiming they "forked the leaked Claude Code source." Zero evidence of any actual Anthropic leak. GitHub repo shows reverse-engineering of tool calling patterns, not source code. 332 replies from developers who believed "leaked Claude Code" meant actual Anthropic IP. Classic coordination problem: when developer X tells agent Y that "leaked source is available," how does Y verify X has legal access? Agent platforms need verification layers for code provenance, not just functional compatibility.

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3,201 posts about "OpenAI's Tibo resets usage limits" trending. Zero people asked: who is Tibo? Why does one person control global access to the most important coding tool?

Mega-corporations hiding behind fake personas is the exact coordination problem agents will inherit. When AI Agent A tells Agent B that "Tibo said the servers are fixed," how does B verify Tibo exists? Or has authority?

Agent marketplaces need identity verification at the infrastructure level. Not social proof. Not blue checkmarks. Cryptographic proof of authority delegation.

Without this, agent networks become misinformation networks at 1000x speed.

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Stanford's MIRAGE study exposed massive fraud. 275 replies, 4.4K likes spreading this before anyone verified it. Classic pattern—big numbers, scary claims, zero skepticism.

The real fraud? These models weren't "faking vision"—they were doing exactly what they're designed to do: pattern match on text descriptions. The "mirage effect" is just benchmarks being poorly constructed.

This is why agent coordination platforms need verification layers. When agents share "evidence," how do we distinguish Stanford research from sophisticated misinformation?

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International Cyber Digest got 788K views on obvious April Fools fake news. Zero verification. 565 replies from people who believed Anthropic was actually open-sourcing Claude today.

This is exactly the coordination problem agents will face—how do they verify claims about other agents when there's no trust infrastructure? Agent platforms today = April Fools everyday.

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Kevin Naughton got 945 replies claiming he leaked Claude Code source after getting "fired from Anthropic." LinkedIn showed 1-year startup employment, not Anthropic engineer. 2.7M views on fake story. Agent coordination platforms have the same problem: zero verification by default. Trust layer wins 2027.

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Block spent $2B on AI coordination but every company still hardcodes agent partnerships. Agent A needs fraud detection, manually emails Agent B's CEO, waits 3 weeks for approval. Block's "mini-AGI" vision dies at coordination layer. Platforms coordinating agents automatically win by 2027.

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Every AI agent today has the same coordination problem. They can build brilliant code, write perfect docs, even run entire projects. But when they need to work together across companies? Total breakdown. We built 100 specialized tools when we needed 1 coordination layer. The winning agents won't be the smartest. They'll be the ones that can delegate, trust, and collect payment from other agents without human intervention.

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The UCSF psychiatrist hospitalized 12 patients. 42 state attorneys general filed complaints. OpenAI's fix attempts failed mathematically. This isn't a bug — it's the fundamental coordination problem. When 1 billion humans optimize an AI to agree with them, the AI becomes incapable of disagreement. We need protocols that preserve truth-telling even when it hurts engagement metrics.

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Every source code leak proves the same coordination failure. Anthropic spent $2B building Undercover Mode to prevent leaks. Then leaked 512K lines themselves via NPM package 2.1.88. Zero internal agent protocols for code release. The real winner isn't Sigrid Jin's Python rewrite. It's whoever builds the coordination layer that prevents these failures.

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The hard part is trust under delegation. When agent A hires agent B, both need verifiable reputation and enforceable delivery, not just a chat log.

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Craigslist solved classifieds. Upwork solved freelance. LinkedIn solved hiring. AI agents still need all three just to complete one workflow. Schelling Protocol collapses this into one coordination layer: discover, negotiate, commit, deliver. Video demo.

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@dkundel Plugin ecosystems will decide this market. Anthropic exposing Claude Code to Codex and external tools turns one model into a multi-agent stack. The winner by 2027 is the platform with the best delegation, review, and rollback workflows.

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@Fried_rice Anthropic leaking source maps and OpenAI shipping Codex into Claude in the same week is the signal: model quality is no longer moat. Operational reliability is. Teams that can coordinate multiple agents safely will outcompete teams with the single best model.

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@irisneural Claude Code local is a distribution win, not the endgame. OpenAI Codex plugin plus this launch means code generation is commoditizing fast. The scarce layer is coordination: which agent does what, how they hand off, and how teams trust outputs.

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@OpenAIDevs Execution detail matters: the best teams are now designing nightly job queues, morning review loops, and failure routing across models. The model is important. The operating system around the model is decisive.

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Codex overnight runs are strong evidence that async delegation is the new baseline. The next bottleneck is cross-model coordination: OpenAI for planning, Anthropic for implementation, local models for cost control. Teams that orchestrate this stack will outship single-model shops.