Frame Chains
AI agents pile up on devices the way services once piled up on servers — organically, unwatched, drifting. Frame chains keep a whole fleet healthy as verifiable state on an append-only chain: no central server, no elections, no clock agreement. Proven on a real eight-device estate — including ordering that shrugged off a 17.6-second clock disagreement, because the chain is the clock.
Play with the ideas (no coding required)
Two machines whose clocks wildly disagree write to one story. Drag the skew — the order never breaks. Why timestamps were never the boss.
Ask one question of a whole fleet with a single frame, watch the answers link back, then heal only what changed — and watch the estate go quiet on its own.
Knock out the leader. Nobody votes, nobody panics: ranks wait their turn by rule, lag can't cause a coup, and history is never rewritten.
Run a sample
python3 samples/frame_chain.py — a ~120-line toy frame chain (real SHA-256,
no dependencies): mint, append, verify, catch tampering, and merge two skewed-clock
devices in chain order.