Coordination infrastructure for autonomous systems
Make autonomywork together.
Circuit Labs is developing CACS to explore how autonomous systems coordinate with clear authority, shared context, and traceable actions.
In development
01 / The problem
Coordination is the hard part.
As autonomous systems take on work across tasks and tools, they increasingly depend on each other to get anything done. That dependency is where the difficulty starts.
Shared context drifts. Permission boundaries blur between one system and the next. Actions become hard to review after the fact. These challenges extend beyond individual models — they are coordination problems, and they decide whether independent systems can be trusted to work together.
02 / Research priorities
Three questions we are working on.
These research priorities guide how we are developing CACS.
Maintaining useful shared context
How do independent systems keep an accurate, current picture of the same work as tasks and responsibilities change?
Making authority and boundaries explicit
How should a system know what it may do, on whose behalf, and where another system's responsibility begins?
Producing traceable coordination decisions and actions
How can a decision made across several systems be reviewed afterwards — what happened, on what basis, and by whose authority?
03 / Our focus
Circuit Adaptive Coordination System
In developmentResearch programme
CACS is the system we are developing to explore these questions in practice: shared context that stays current, authority and boundaries that are explicit, and coordination decisions that can be traced back to the actions they produced.
Explore the research04 / Next step
Work on coordination too?
We are looking for research and evaluation partners who can test these ideas against real coordination problems. Read the research, or tell us where coordination gets difficult for you.