Lab Note: Type-Level Agent Coordination

Status: Archived Date: November 2025

Motivation

Can we encode agent coordination guarantees at the type level, achieving compile-time verification of coordination properties?

Approach

Used dependent types to encode:

• Agent capabilities as types
• Coordination protocols as type constraints
• Message passing as typed channels

Results

Successes

• Full verification for 2-10 agent systems
• Caught coordination bugs at compile time
• Type-driven protocol development was intuitive

Failures

• Compilation time exponential in agent count
• Type errors unintelligible for complex protocols
• Real-world agents violate static assumptions

Conclusion

Pure type-level approach unworkable at scale. Hybrid approach (types for interfaces, runtime for coordination) more practical.

Findings fed into Maspad architecture decisions.

Code preserved for reference: [internal repo]