Why architecture matters here

Tasks fail on missing signatures (trust break), no deadlines (hang), and lack of compensation. Architecture matters because envelope + lifecycle + audit are the substrate.

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The architecture: every piece explained

The top strip is basics. Task envelope signed. Producer agent. Consumer agent. Lifecycle states.

The middle row is safety. Result envelope. Retry policy. Deadline. Compensation.

The lower rows are ops. Audit trail. Observability. Ops — governance + rate + priority.

Agent task — envelope + lifecycle + result + retry + auditdurable work between agentsTask envelopesigned requestProducer agentqueuesConsumer agentexecutesLifecyclecreated / running / done / failedResult envelopesigned responseRetry policyidempotentDeadlinewallclock capCompensationon failureAudit trailsigned eventsObservabilitystate + durationOps — governance + dispute + rate + priorityreplyretryboundcompensatelogwatchwatchoperateoperate
Agent task envelope + lifecycle + audit.
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End-to-end flow

End-to-end: producer signs task envelope. Consumer picks up. Executes. Signs result envelope. Retry on transient failure with idempotency. Deadline expires triggers compensation. Audit trail includes all state transitions.