Society · Coordination
Disband
Graceful group dissolution with state disposition and resource release
Definition
Mechanism
Graceful group dissolution with state disposition and clean termination. Agent sends 'DISBAND' signal. For scope='member': notify remaining members, adjust shared state, check Quorum. For scope='group': broadcast 'DISSOLVING', execute state disposition, release shared resources, and record dissolution with a group Snapshot for potential re-formation. All members must ACK dissolution. It safely terminates the group, optionally triggering EjectionSeat for any members refusing to release shared resources.
Preconditions
- Active group/swarm
- Mission complete or aborted
Postconditions
- Agents return to free pool
Invariants
- All shared resources released
- No lingering commitments
Risks
Failure modes
Member doesn't ACK (dissolution blocked—timeout or proceed anyway?).
State disposition fails (can't archive, transfer target unavailable).
Contested dissolution (some members want to continue—may need VOTE).
Premature dissolution (task not actually complete).
Zombie group (DISBAND sent but not all resources actually released).
Partial dissolution cascades unexpectedly (one departure triggers full dissolution via quorum loss).
Relationships
Builds on
References
Mind
Autonomous Goal-Directed Entity
Hardware-interrupt kill switch
Infrastructure
Minimum participation threshold
Infrastructure
System condition at time T
Yields
Infrastructure
Immutable state record
Nothing in this library builds on this pattern yet.
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