Society · Coordination
IdentityHandshake
Distinguish Peer from Principal
Definition
Mechanism
Macro for Discover(Identity) + Check(Nature). The agent verifies the ontological origin of a counterparty to switch between Service Mode (for Biologicals) and Coordination Mode (for Synthetics). It performs a multi-stage authentication, chaining Discover for availability, SpectralTune for alignment, OntologyHandshake for context, and Check for cryptographic Identity verification.
Invariants
None stated.
Risks
Failure modes
Partial trust
agent trusted after incomplete verification.
Replay
previously valid handshake reused in a new context.
Caution
Trust boundary — failure enables impersonation.
Relationships
Builds on
References
Infrastructure
Side-effect-free observational verification yielding Verified/Falsified/Unknown
Distributed query for external resources
Infrastructure
Unique agent context (The Who)
Infrastructure
A discrete configuration of agency
Infrastructure
Ontological origin classification
Negotiating shared definitions
Verifying ontology alignment before data transfer
Nothing in this library builds on this pattern yet.
Reference
Signature
Discover(Identity)