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godswarm v0.4.0 - Stigmergic Multi-Agent Environment Studio

A standalone static Go (CGO_ENABLED=0) environment synthesizer and hierarchical swarm harness translating biological ant-colony stigmergy, exponentially decaying pheromones, clean-room epistemic memory, selective typed contracts, and honeybee blind quorums into deterministic autonomous delivery up to 216+ nodes.

Stigmergic Coordination Architecture

Five Biological Mechanisms in Pure Go

1. Digital Stigmergy

Zero N-way chat loops. Workers read and write typed state transitions exclusively via a SQLite WAL board and git worktrees.

2. Dual Pheromone Decay

POSITIVE_ROUTE requires ORACLE_PASS quarantine; failures emit NEGATIVE_HAZARD with exponential half-life decay.

3. Response Thresholds

Workers start at Tier 1 and escalate automatically on hazard density, paired with a SHA-256 LoopDetector.

4. Blind Quorum + Cross-Inhibition

Independent scouts review (spec, diff, oracle) without peer leakage. Any concrete stop_signals vetoes merge.

5. Spatial Orthogonality (Variant 0)

Kahn sort + pairwise write_scope checks run parallel waves when disjoint and drop to single-worker mode when coupled.

Empirical Benchmark (go test + Ad-Hoc Oracle Tamper Fault)

Generated: 2026-11-14T11:52:08Z Runtime: go1.26.1 darwin/arm64 Simulated Call Latency: 400 ms Wall-Clock Speedup: 1.44x

Strategy	Mode	Workers	Reported Passed	Real Oracle Intact	Duration (ms)	Attempts	Scope Blocked
Baseline A (Single-Agent Sequential)	`VARIANT0_SINGLE`	1	true	true	6980	5	0
Baseline B (Naive Unisolated Parallel)	`UNISOLATED_SHARED`	4	true (false pass)	false (tampered)	3051	5	0
Godswarm v0.1 (Stigmergic Swarm)	`SWARM`	4	true	true	4840	6	1

JSON endpoint: /api/benchmark | Evolution JSON: /api/evolution | Health endpoint: /healthz

3-Round Autonomous Evolution Scorecard (v0.1.0 -> v0.4.0)

Round	Version	S1 Studio	S2 Oracles	S3 Scale & Memory	S4 Live E2E	Composite	Duration (ms)
R0	`0.1.0`	20.0	25.0	20.0	15.0	20.0 / 100.0	1155
R1	`0.2.0`	100.0	50.0	20.0	70.0	60.0 / 100.0	226463
R2	`0.3.0`	100.0	75.0	70.0	85.0	82.5 / 100.0	272936
R3	`0.4.0`	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0 / 100.0	677229

Verified R3 metrics: 216/216 tasks across 12 clusters (max_prompt=1690B <= 6144B, 1 rogue write blocked), SLO hill-climbing [2484, 50, 15] with regression [7604] rejected, live CLI exams C4.3A (claude), C4.3B (claude->blind:codex), C4.3C (claude + WebAppOracle).

Local Quickstart (Single Static Binary)

git clone <repo-url>
cd godswarm
make build
./dist/godswarm providers
./dist/godswarm init
./dist/godswarm plan -f mission.json
./dist/godswarm run -f mission.json --workers 4 --provider auto
./dist/godswarm studio --repo . --port 8420
./dist/godswarm evolve
./dist/godswarm bench-suite --round R3 --live-dogfood --json