normsync
LLMs decide what norms exist; a ledger decides what they enforce.
Emergent norm enforcement for multi-agent worlds — a signed CRDT commitment ledger.
Coalitions of NPC agents need to form and honor emergent social norms without a designer scripting every case — but pure-LLM “norms” aren't binding, and pure-scripted ones aren't emergent. Prior work conflates the two.
Cleanly separate the two concerns: LLMs decide what norms exist; a deterministic engine decides what norms enforce. Back it with a signed, versioned, append-only CRDT commitment ledger that agents read as context and write to via tool calls.
Commitment ledger
A signed, append-only CRDT ledger of norms and commitments agents read and write.
LLM norm formation
Models propose and adopt emergent norms as social situations evolve.
Deterministic enforcement
A rules engine decides bindingly what each norm enforces — no model in the enforcement path.
Auditable society
Every commitment and breach is recorded and attributable.