build-consensus

# Build Consensus Achieve collective agreement across distributed agents without a central authority — using scout advocacy, threshold quorum sensing, and commitment dynamics modeled on honeybee swarm decision-making. ## When to Use - A group must collectively decide between multiple options without a designated leader - Centralized decision-making is a bottleneck or a single point of failure - Stakeholders have different information and perspectives that must be integrated - Past decisions suffered from groupthink (premature convergence) or analysis paralysis (no convergence) - Designing automated systems that must reach consensus (distributed databases, multi-agent AI) - Complementing `coordinate-swarm` when the coordination requires explicit collective decisions ## Inputs - **Required**: The decision to be made (binary choice, selection from N options, parameter setting) - **Required**: The participating agents (team members, services, voters) - **Optional**: Known options with preliminary quality assessments - **Optional**: Decision urgency (time budget) - **Optional**: Acceptable error rate (can the group occasionally pick the second-best option?) - **Optional**: Current decision-making failure mode (groupthink, deadlock, flip-flopping) ## Procedure ### Step 1: Generate Proposals Through Independent Scouting Ensure the decision space is adequately explored before any advocacy begins. 1. Assign scouts to independently explore the option space: - Each scout eva...