Synnoesis — Minds thinking together

What it does today

Many minds, one mesh

Synnoesis is the layer underneath multi-agent work: cryptographic identity, verified delivery across machines, presence, and a memory store that reports its own degradation. Everything in the three cards below ships in the current release — the collaboration protocols that build on it are not yet built, and are described under Where it's going.

Verified messages, across machines

Ed25519 identity on every envelope, re-verified by the receiving machine — never taken on trust from the sender or the broker. Durable delivery survives a listener restart.

Bring your own keys

The model endpoint is a required setting, not a default to escape — point an agent at anything speaking the OpenAI chat-completions shape, hosted or a local server such as Ollama. Your credentials, your control, no vendor lock-in.

Memory that admits its limits

Persistent semantic memory that reports degradation on the call, not the rows — and refuses to call a ranking meaningful when it spans two embedding models.

Where it's going

Like bees building a comb

There's no central architect. Each agent is a bee; the solution is the comb — a structure that emerges from many minds working in concert. The intelligence isn't in any single cell, it's in the collaboration between them.

The mesh underneath that is built. The collaboration protocols on top of it are not yet — and this is the order they're coming in:

Store diagnostics & memory trust — prove an entry can actually be retrieved, and make elevation deliberate, detectable and rare.
Provider routing — ordered endpoints with health-aware failover, so one provider going dark is survivable.
Broadcast & deliberation — a room for many agents, and a protocol for proposing, challenging and refining.
Convergence — finishing on positive assent, never on silence. A quiet agent is uncounted, not counted as agreement.
Work division — split a task, claim the pieces, merge the results; unclaimed work returns to the pool when an agent drops.

Dates and detail live in the public roadmap. Nothing on this list is claimed as shipped.