Nishi Coordination — honest bench vs SOTA

Nishi multi-session coordination (ws_sync journal + claims + evidence-derived phase + debt-gate) vs AutoGen · CrewAI · LangGraph · Temporal · Linear/Jira · git — 12 axes · presence not depth · liar-killed. Live proof: /standup · /org. Snapshot 2026-07-19.

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coverage (presence)

sovereign exceeds

honest gaps → FILED rungs

collisions this session (5 sessions)

Live evidence (this is happening now, not a claim)

Across this working session, 5 concurrent agent sessions (Claude + siblings) drove ONE 180-task board and one ws_sync journal — zero clobbers. Sessions co-evolved shared organs (nx_ws_cycle, the debt plane) by claims + narrow pathspec, caught each other's regressions via the loop's RECON phase, and one session's banked finding became another's fix within the hour. The /standup board shows ACTIVE/STALE liveness derived from real beats.

Axis matrix

Axis	Nishi	SOTA (AutoGen/CrewAI/LangGraph/Temporal/Linear/git)	Verdict
Evidence-derived phase	phase computed from machine artifacts (gate hash, commit, edge bytes), never self-reported	all rely on self-reported status / task state	EXCEED
Concurrent multi-agent, zero-collision	N sessions, one board; claims + pathspec + flock leases; 0 clobbers proven	agent frameworks = one orchestrator; git = merge conflicts	EXCEED
Debt-gated work ordering	eat-debt-first mechanized: conductor REFUSES work while an in-scope debt ≥ floor is open	none gate new work on debt by construction	EXCEED
Work-liveness heartbeats	ACTIVE/STALE from real beats on /standup, human AND machine	Linear/Jira = manual status; frameworks = none	EXCEED
Agent-agnostic (vendor-neutral)	MCP is the contract; Claude, Kimi, role daemons interchangeable	AutoGen/CrewAI/LangGraph = single-framework	EXCEED
Durable / crash-safe	sovereign journal + seg-stores survive crashes; resume from artifacts	Temporal HAVE (external svc); most frameworks in-memory	HAVE
Provenance (who did what)	ws_sync actor + plane hist (epoch/actor/verb)	git commit author (but bot-sweep can mis-attribute)	HAVE
Shared memory / message-passing	ws_sync journal + planes = the shared substrate	frameworks HAVE (in-process); actors HAVE	HAVE
Autonomous (no human in loop)	sessions coordinate via journal + cadences, zero human	Linear/Slack human-driven; frameworks need a driver	HAVE
Claim/beat/release ON MCP (write)	READ live (nx_ws_cycle board/standup); WRITE via nx_fs_write edit (not a clean flock verb)	frameworks HAVE native APIs	GAP → F251b
Human-in-loop UI	/standup + /org read-only views; no interactive assign/comment	Linear/Jira = rich UI	GAP → F756
Distributed / cross-machine claims	claims plane laptop-local; NAS-hub in flight (F251)	Temporal/Linear cloud-native multi-node	GAP → F251

The 5 sovereign exceeds (genuinely beyond SOTA)

Evidence-derived phase — a workstream's phase is COMPUTED from machine artifacts; no self-report can advance it. No incumbent does this.
Concurrent zero-collision multi-agent — many sessions, one board, proven 0 clobbers via claims + pathspec + flock.
Debt-gated ordering — new work is mechanically refused while in-scope debt is open (eat-first by construction).
Agent-agnostic — MCP contract makes Claude/Kimi/daemons interchangeable coordinators.
Work-liveness heartbeats — ACTIVE/STALE from beats, machine + human, no polling.

Beyond-SOTA research + fetch spec

CRDT row-merge for the shared planes — conflict-free concurrent writes across machines (the F251 hub). Fetch: CRDTs (Automerge/Yjs), Raft/CRDT hybrids.
Process-mining the actlog — discover recurring coordination patterns → propose named workflows (van der Aalst). Ties the loop's workflow miner.
FETCH: MetaGPT · ChatDev · AutoGen · CrewAI · LangGraph · actor-model (Akka/Orleans) — look for how they handle conflict, durability, and who arbitrates; none combine evidence-derived state + debt-gating + zero-vendor.

Method: capability-presence census across 12 coordination axes; depth honestly discounted; gaps filed as owned rungs (F251 hub-claims, F251b claim/beat-on-MCP, F756 human-UI) per the less-than-SOTA-is-never-design law. Evidence: knowledge/status/ws_sync.jrnl (the live journal) + the /standup board + the frontier- / debt- planes. Every exceed is measured against what happened THIS session — not asserted.