POSIX flock() Multi-Instance Coordination
- Entity ID:
ent-20260423-p2a017000001 - Type:
mechanism - Scope:
private - Status:
active
Description
For multi-instance agent-team coordination the harness uses file locking rather than a message broker. Tasks are claimed from a shared list via lock-file-based mutual exclusion with lock files at predictable filesystem paths. Trades throughput for zero-dependency deployment and full debuggability.
Key claims
- Multi-instance agent coordination uses POSIX flock()
Relations
- POSIX flock() Multi-Instance Coordination --[depends_on]--> AgentTool
- POSIX flock() Multi-Instance Coordination --[implements]--> Auditability Over Query Power Principle