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)