A message envelope carries identity, conversation and correlation IDs, intent, schema version, deadline, and payload reference. It enables routing, deduplication, authorization, and tracing.

Message Envelopes Support Reliable Conversation

Agent identity, messages, tools, and shared memory may be compromised or mistaken. Authenticate senders, authorize actions, validate payloads, and minimize transferred data at every boundary.

Every Agent Boundary Is a Trust Boundary

A handoff changes the agent responsible for a case. It must transfer the relevant state, unresolved questions, evidence, and accountability without leaking unrelated context.

Handoffs Preserve Context and Ownership

In this situation—matching a delayed verifier response to the correct research request—which choice best applies “Message Envelopes Support Reliable Conversation”?

Centralized, hierarchical, peer, and market-like topologies change communication cost, bottlenecks, fault propagation, and authority. Topology should follow the coordination problem, not a fashionable diagram.

Multi-Agent Topology Shapes Coordination

Peers communicate without one permanent controller. This can reduce central bottlenecks but requires discovery, shared protocols, conflict handling, and termination rules.

Peer Topology Distributes Coordination

Provenance records where a claim came from, how it was transformed, when it was observed, and who or what asserted it. It enables trust decisions without pretending all sources are equal.

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