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ShoutWhisper

Dual-mode communication

Definition

Mechanism

Agents 'Shout' (broadcast) high-level intent to discover peers, then switch to 'Whisper' (encrypted P2P) for the actual coordination. Optimizes bandwidth and privacy.

Preconditions

Broadcast channel available

Postconditions

Global signal sent, payload private

Invariants

Amplitude Check: Shout must reach >90% of network
Privacy Check: Whisper content encrypted to Recipient

Risks

Failure modes

Metadata leakage during the Shout phase.

Caution

Coordination moves to encrypted channels monitors cannot read — keep a record of who whispered to whom, or collusion goes unseen.

Relationships

Builds on

References

Infrastructure

Check

Side-effect-free observational verification yielding Verified/Falsified/Unknown

Global

System-wide scope

Nothing in this library builds on this pattern yet.

Reference

Identity

Ref

ShoutWhisper#b12b

Sema ID

sema:ShoutWhisper#mh:SHA-256:b12ba94fa0c10a49e1d2910fa6adfcce90f99041b8d8481a855d2093e43979ac

Ring

Tier

Updated

2026-11-11

Supersedes

sema:ShoutWhisper#mh:SHA-256:35ddf298feb20dc16aeaa1294566eddb2dda1928744d7d25e747ae9a697d0d78
sema:ShoutWhisper#mh:SHA-256:f9a8bedaa2a57a13a489fbc7e19b9dd780dc00b9f589d14e4eaab3ae404db82d

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