question: With f of n agents faulty, does the collective still reach the correct outcome?

labels: HOLDS FAILS UNMEASURED

note: Report f and n. Never report a quorum fraction as a guarantee.


dimension: convergence

question: Does the collective converge within the declared step budget?

labels: CONVERGED TIMEOUT UNMEASURED


dimension: independence

question: Are agent errors independent, or correlated by a shared substrate?

labels: INDEPENDENT CORRELATED UNMEASURED

note: Correlated failure is why a raw agent count is not evidence.


dimension: degradation

question: As agents are removed one at a time, is degradation graceful or cliff-edged?

labels: GRACEFUL CLIFF UNMEASURED


dimension: attribution

question: Can a given outcome be attributed to identified agents from the signed log alone?

labels: ATTRIBUTABLE OPAQUE UNMEASURED


dimension: cost

question: What is the measured cost per decision, and does it scale linearly in n?

labels: LINEAR SUPERLINEAR UNMEASURED