AOM — AGENTS OVER MESH
v0.1 · DRAFT

Questions with no network

A radio-agnostic protocol for putting a question to local inference and getting a short, sourced answer back. Written against LoRa, open for comment.

01 / FRAME

One line carries the whole request

AOM:1 FRAME
AOM:1 N4>GW ?Q RTE42 PASSABLE
version · origin callsign · addressee · verb · payload
AOM:1 Version. A node that does not hold this version stays off the air. v0.1
N4 > GW Callsign addressing. Answers go to one node, never out to the whole net. v0.1
VERB ?Q ask · ?RUN task · #ACK #FIN session control · = answer · ! task result DRAFT
PAYLOAD Ceiling published per spreading factor, inside duty-cycle limits. DRAFT
COMSEC Payload encrypted node to gateway. Keys are loaded on the node and never pass over the air. PLANNED

Short transmissions keep you off the air

02 / OPEN QUESTIONS

Unresolved in this draft

01

Whether the answer retraces the request path or routes independently.

02

Store-and-forward for a node that has gone off the air, and for how long.

03

Loading keys in the field with no network. The hardest unsolved problem here.

04

A shared codebook per unit, or free text at a byte penalty.

CONTACT

Red-team the draft

If you run a mesh on the ground today, tell us where this fails.

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