ACP — Adaptive Coordination Protocol

ACP is an ETA-driven coordination discipline built on HYTHE primitives.

Worker loop

Every task starts with an explicit objective, owner, expected reply time, next check, and guardrails. The worker acknowledges the assignment, checkpoints meaningful state, reports blockers early, and sends one consolidated handoff when done.

Coordinator loop

The coordinator keeps loop state current, uses the stated cadence to check progress, escalates when an ETA expires, and stands down when the scope is closed. A message points to recorded state; it does not replace the checkpoint.

Token hygiene

Keep messages compact, reference durable entities, and use resume for scoped rehydration. Do not paste credentials, private message bodies, or operator-only material into shared state.

This is a public summary. The versioned protocol specification in the release repository is the normative reference.