Classical MAS Coordination
Type: recipe
Rebuild multi-agent coordination on the classical primitives that pre-LLM MAS research developed, instead of inventing ad-hoc protocols per project.
Description. A modern LLM-agent reimplementation of the canonical multi-agent-systems vocabulary from Weiss's MIT Press textbook: typed performative messages, contract-net task allocation with second-price payment, coalition formation, trust-and-reputation routing, joint commitment teams, partial global planning, distributed constraint optimisation, BDI reasoning, and stigmergic environment-mediated coordination.
Patterns this recipe composes —
- ★★Performative Message
Typed inter-agent messages over a small fixed vocabulary.
- ★★Contract Net Protocol
- ★★Vickrey Auction Allocation
Truthful bidding as dominant strategy.
- ·Coalition Formation
Per-task subgroup formation.
- ★★BDI Agent
Beliefs / Desires / Intentions as typed stores.
- ★Trust and Reputation Routing
- ·Joint Commitment Team
No silent abandonment of shared goals.
- ·Partial Global Planning
- ·Distributed Constraint Optimization
- ★★Stigmergic Coordination
Environment-mediated coordination as an alternative channel.
- ·Blackboard