Primary technical disclosure

Matched-Pair Settlement Between Agents: Bilateral Closure Without a Clearer Matched-pair settlement lets two semantic agents reach bilateral finality from a pair of credentialed governed observations recognized within a proximity window, with no clearing house, no consensus quorum, and no pre-negotiated session state.

Secondary technical

The Derived-Artifact Provenance Chain and Chain-Head Identifier A tamper-evident, locally verifiable derived-artifact provenance chain that records every retraining agent behind an inference artifact and commits to the whole history through a self-committing chain-head identifier, verified at each lifecycle operation without any registry.Provenance Withdrawal and the Provenance-Withdrawn Attribute A structural account of provenance withdrawal in Adaptive Query: how a signed, verifiable governed observation lets an upstream model provider retract endorsement of a derived inference artifact without deleting history, halting dispatch as a positive abstention.Matched-Pair-Gated Corpus Contribution A bilateral matched-pair gate that admits counterparty training-corpus contributions only against a settled contribution identifier, binding each contribution to a corpus policy version, scope partitions, and action classes for later provenance and encumbrance.Partition-Scoped Escrow Release Gated on Intersection Non-Emptiness How partition-scoped escrow in Adaptive Query binds settlement content to the intersection of two agents' scope partitions, refusing release outside it and rolling back to the placing party on timeout with no refusal-meter charge.The First-Encounter Settled Pair and Promotion to the Persistent Tier How a semantic agent admits a never-before-seen counterparty with no certificate authority or registry, using an ephemeral-tier identity record, a scaffolding observation naming absent fields, and a completing observation that promotes the record to the persistent tier by slope continuity.

Applications · general

B2B Agent Commerce: Bilateral Settlement Without a Clearing House How matched-pair settlement closes cross-organization agent transactions bilaterally using governed observations, proximity windows, escrow, and per-party settlement lineage, with no clearing house, consensus round, or pre-negotiated session state.

Terminology

governed observation a signed structure comprising at least an authority credential field and a payload field, and emitted complete upon emission.matched pair a first governed observation representing an offer, a tender, a claim, a demand, or a commitment, and a second governed observation responsive thereto, recognized under a declared pairing rule within a spatial proximity window and a temporal proximity window..scope partition a named division of the operation of the semantic agent having a per-partition lineage record and a per-partition cognitive state..