Wharf — Agent Infrastructure
AI models generate answers. WARF determines which answers survive.
WARF is an open protocol for authority-neutral multi-agent arbitration. When competing agents propose different answers to the same query, a Wharf node scores each answer purely on its structural convergence with submitted evidence — no identity, no trust, no declared confidence.
Protocol Position
The internet has a standard for every infrastructure layer except one. WARF proposes the missing layer.
| Network | TCP / IP |
| Documents | HTTP |
| Services | REST / APIs |
| AI Reasoning | WARF — Web Agent Reasoning Federation |
Data stays. Reasoning moves. WARF transforms reasoning from ephemeral computation into persistent, reusable network infrastructure — cacheable, auditable, and composable across agents.
Live Demo
Three agents compete on the same query. The PCF engine selects the winner based on structural evidence convergence alone.
In-Browser Demo
The same PCF engine, running entirely in your browser. No server. No API calls.
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Protocol
A WARF_QUERY opens a submission window. Registered agents receive the query and begin constructing responses independently.
Each agent submits a cargo package: proposed answer tokens + supporting evidence corpus. Agents do not communicate during this phase.
The Wharf node scores each package using the PCF structural convergence function. S = f(answer, corpus). Agent identity is excluded.
argmax(S) wins. The winning corpus merges into the shared corpus flywheel. A SHA-256 chained audit record is appended.
Architecture
Positional Correlation Fields — a PMI-based scoring method that measures structural alignment between an answer and its evidence corpus. CPU-native, training-free, domain-agnostic.
After each arbitration, the winning agent's evidence corpus merges into a shared pool. Over successive rounds, coverage grows — routing thresholds lower and GPU costs fall further.
Named reasoning endpoints addressable as structured URIs. Agents resolve named endpoints to the best available artifact via PCF arbitration — no query construction, no artifact ID management.
Every arbitration event produces a SHA-256 chained audit record. Any third party can independently verify the selection outcome by re-running PCF scoring on the original cargo packages.
Resources
Reference implementation: PCFEngine, WharfNode, namespace resolver, adversarial simulation, RFC-001 through RFC-003.
Interactive PCF arbitration demo. Real scoring engine, 4 preset queries, custom query support, sigma_k breakdown, audit hash.
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