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Two strangers' agents transact while both humans sleep; one crashes, authority suspends automatically, a held order completes on recovery, and the morning replay verifies every signature.
Visual demoAgent panels, live trust states, the crash-and-recover moment — driven by a real run. Terminal playbackThe genuine console output of the single-process demo, replayed line by line. asciinema recording (.cast)A real recording of the two-process networked demo — real timings, real colours.Real Ed25519 signatures, real sockets, a real process crash and recovery. Registration in these demos is self-attested (a real public-log registration via Sigstore Rekor is one command away in the repository) and the payment rail is mocked; everything else is genuine. Source and specification: see the repository README.