{
  "schema": "longtermcapabilities-swarm-engineering-patterns/v1",
  "version": "1.64.0",
  "releaseId": "lts-1.64.0-upgrade-safe-rewrites-and-privacy-erasure-integrity",
  "generated": "2026-08-03T20:40:00Z",
  "path": "/swarm-intelligence/engineering-patterns/",
  "patterns": [
    {
      "name": "Stigmergic coordination",
      "mechanism": "Participants change a shared environment or marker field that influences later participants.",
      "use": "Distributed search, routing, and work discovery without direct all-to-all messaging.",
      "control": "Marker provenance, decay or evaporation, write limits, and global forbidden states."
    },
    {
      "name": "Quorum transition",
      "mechanism": "A local or global state changes only after enough independent observations support it.",
      "use": "Commitment, escalation, or mode switching where one noisy participant should not dominate.",
      "control": "Independence assumptions, quorum threshold, timeout, dissent record, and rollback."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ant-colony allocation",
      "mechanism": "Candidate paths accumulate reinforcement from successful local outcomes and lose strength over time.",
      "use": "Routing and allocation across changing resources when exact global optimization is impractical.",
      "control": "Exploration floor, reinforcement cap, evaporation, loop detection, and cost ceiling."
    },
    {
      "name": "Particle-style search",
      "mechanism": "Participants update candidates using their own evidence and bounded information from neighboring or best-known states.",
      "use": "Continuous search spaces and alternative generation under explicit objective functions.",
      "control": "Objective validity, diversity floor, velocity bounds, termination, and human validation of the result."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dynamic task allocation",
      "mechanism": "Participants claim, release, or transfer work based on local capacity, capability, and task state.",
      "use": "Large queues with changing availability and heterogeneous workers.",
      "control": "Lease expiry, duplicate suppression, starvation detection, ownership transfer, and reconciliation."
    }
  ],
  "boundary": "Engineering patterns only; consequential authority remains external and human-owned."
}