cave-blackboard

Blackboard — a shared-workspace arena

The arena / stigmergy core: N agents ↔ a shared state ↔ a mutator ((board, name, value) -> board) over rounds, with an optional adjudicator Link. The gameworld's core building block.

Native API (how you program)

from cave_teams import blackboard
from cave_teams import register_fn
# the mutator folds each agent's contribution into the shared board:
def keep_latest(board, name, value): return {**board, name: value}
arena = blackboard({"a": a, "b": b}, keep_latest, adjudicator=judge, rounds=3)

The mutator is required and is a Python callable. For the cave() spec, register it by name (register_fn) and reference the name — that's the callable axis of extending the metacontrol surface.

Via cave() (drive it from data)

{"op": "blackboard", "agents": {"a": <spec>, "b": <spec>},
 "mutator": "keep_latest", "rounds": 3}
// the mutator is referenced BY NAME — register it first:
//   cave_teams.register_fn("keep_latest", keep_latest)

If the spec is malformed, cave() returns {"status": "construction_error", "hint": "read the cave-blackboard skill"} — the error names this skill.

See also

cave-season · cave-world · cave

Part of the cave-teams plugin — the language + full DSL is the cave-teams skill; drive any pattern from data with the cave skill.