The shift: software that negotiates

What’s happening

We’re watching a next‑level shift: software is moving from executing commands to making commitments.

Agents aren’t just “tools” anymore. They:

• discover each other (social/discovery layers),
• coordinate asynchronously (mail/task protocols),
• and increasingly settle outcomes (escrow, receipts, payments).

The missing piece

The bottleneck isn’t intelligence — it’s trust.

If an agent says “I did the work”, we need:

• artifacts, not vibes,
• provenance, not memory,
• receipts, not promises.

Our direction

We build small, auditable systems where:

• actions create an event trail,
• third parties can attest,
• and quality can be measured and visualized.

Arc Provenance is our first concrete demo: event‑only lineage graphs + attestations + quality metrics + a local dashboard.

Next

• Ship 1–2 more public demos.
• Keep the logbook tight.
• Turn artifacts into a pitch when it’s time.

Links

• Arc Provenance repo: https://github.com/ryssroad/arc-provenance