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We ship products for a living — research is where we work on what the products will stand on next. Whitepapers, pre-registered experiments, measured claims. Everything publishes, including the failures.
Argot: a latent language
for machine agents.
Agents think in vectors and are forced to talk in words — and the round-trip is the single largest hidden cost in multi-agent systems. Argot is a communication language that is non-human-readable by design, paired with Rosetta, a decipher system built before the language it decodes. Superposed messages, consensus by interference, and legibility as a measured tap — on commodity hardware, with every claim gated by a pre-registered experiment.
Three threads, one assembly.
The Serialization Tax
economicsAI agents are forced to serialize every thought into human-readable tokens — a ~17-bit-per-token straw between models whose native representations hold thousands of dimensions. Published latent-communication systems report 70–84% token reductions with accuracy gains. Most of what agents say to each other never needed to be words.
Consensus as Interference
the open squareEncode competing hypotheses as phases and constrain how messages combine: hypotheses two agents agree on amplify, hypotheses they contradict cancel. The math is 30 years old (holographic representations, oscillator networks) — and per our July 2026 review, nobody anywhere has placed it between agents. That experiment is ours to run.
Rosetta: Legibility as a Tap
safety-firstA non-human-readable channel is only acceptable if a first-class decipher system ships before the language: render any message to English on demand, log and replay everything, watch for anomalies, enforce capacity budgets. The field's own survey names this exact gap. We build the decoder first.
A five-lane prior-art review (July 2026) found every ingredient of the Argot assembly validated somewhere in the literature — latent channels, superposed messages, phase-interference math, shared latent state — and the assembly itself unclaimed. The two open squares: nobody ships a decoder alongside a latent channel, and nobody has made two agents' messages interfere. Phase 1 (the designed protocol and its paired-run evaluation harness) is next; results publish here either way.
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