yanacuti1121/yana-ai/bft-consensus-patterns

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Implement Byzantine Fault Tolerant voting for critical agent decisions. 3-of-N quorum for infrastructure writes, reputation-weighted voting, dual-verification pipelines, and automatic privilege demotion.

Install

npx vskill@latest install yanacuti1121/yana-ai/bft-consensus-patterns

SKILL.md

Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus

A swarm of 87 agents can tolerate up to 28 simultaneous compromised agents (f = ⌊(N-1)/3⌋) if decisions require 2f+1 votes.

When to Use

  • Critical operations that no single agent should decide unilaterally (rule changes, deploys, key rotation)
  • Detecting when a minority of agents have been compromised or are producing incorrect output
  • Dual-verification of important task results (two agents must agree before result is accepted)
  • Enforcing quorum requirements before high-privilege Swarm Bus commands

Do NOT use for

  • Routine read-only operations (overhead not worth it for non-critical tasks)
  • Single-agent systems or development environments

BFT Voting via SwarmRouter

js
import { SwarmRouter } from 'core/bus/swarm-router.js';
const router = new SwarmRouter();
// Register voters
['auditor-1', 'auditor-2', 'auditor-3', 'orch-1', 'orch-2'].forEach(id =>
router.register(id, { role: 'auditor', trustScore: 90 })
);
// Propose a critical change
async function proposeChange(proposerId, change) {
const QUORUM = 3;
const votes = await Promise.allSettled(
[...router.agents.keys()]
.filter(id => id !== proposerId)
.slice(0, 5)
.map(id => router.route({
from: proposerId, to: id,
command: 'VOTE_REQUEST',
payload: { change, fingerprint: router._fingerprint(change) }
}))
);
const yesVotes = votes.filter(v => v.status === 'fulfilled' && v.value.delivered).length;
if (yesVotes < QUORUM) throw new Error(`CONSENSUS_FAIL: ${yesVotes}/${QUORUM} votes`);
return { approved: true, votes: yesVotes };
}

Dual-Verification Pipeline (Lớp 79)

js
// Run same task on two independent agents, compare results
async function dualVerify(task, agentA, agentB) {
const [resultA, resultB] = await Promise.all([
runAgent(agentA, task),
runAgent(agentB, task),
]);
const hashA = sha256(JSON.stringify(resultA));
const hashB = sha256(JSON.stringify(resultB));
if (hashA !== hashB) {
// Results diverged — trigger investigation
router.penalize(agentA, 10, 'DUAL_VERIFY_DIVERGENCE');
router.penalize(agentB, 10, 'DUAL_VERIFY_DIVERGENCE');
throw new Error('DUAL_VERIFY_FAIL: agent outputs diverged');
}
return resultA;
}

Reputation-Weighted Voting

js
function weightedQuorum(voters, minTrustScore = 60) {
const eligible = voters.filter(a => a.trustScore >= minTrustScore && !a.quarantined);
const totalWeight = eligible.reduce((sum, a) => sum + a.trustScore, 0);
const threshold = totalWeight * 0.67; // 67% weighted majority
return { eligible: eligible.length, threshold, totalWeight };
}

Automated Privilege Demotion (Lớp 80)

js
// When task transitions to PENDING_APPROVAL state:
function demoteToMinPrivilege(agentId) {
const agent = router.agents.get(agentId);
// Restrict allowed commands to read-only subset
agent.allowedCommands = new Set(['git status', 'ls', 'cat']);
agent.role = 'observer'; // no write access
router._log('PRIVILEGE_DEMOTE', agentId, { reason: 'PENDING_APPROVAL' });
}

Agent Heartbeat Interrogation (Lớp 72)

js
// Periodic challenge: agents must respond with correct HMAC
setInterval(() => {
for (const [id, agent] of router.agents) {
const challenge = randomBytes(16).toString('hex');
const expectedResponse = hmac256(challenge, agent.sharedSecret);
sendChallenge(id, challenge).then(response => {
if (response !== expectedResponse) {
router.quarantine(id, 'HEARTBEAT_FAIL');
}
}).catch(() => {
router.quarantine(id, 'HEARTBEAT_TIMEOUT');
});
}
}, 30000);

Anti-Fake-Pass Checklist

  • [ ] QUORUM value ≥ 3 — never use QUORUM = 1 even temporarily
  • [ ] Quarantined agents excluded from voter pool
  • [ ] Stale agents (heartbeat > TTL) excluded from voter pool
  • [ ] Dual-verify divergence investigated — not silently retried
  • [ ] Vote results logged to Merkle audit chain with fingerprints

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