# `board/agreement` Source: [`src/board/agreement.ts`](https://github.com/AI-for-dev/combo/blob/main/src/board/agreement.ts) When a board has agreed: who voted for what, and whether they all say one thing. Every other stop condition here reads a `Result`. `loop` asks whether a reviewer said a word, a flow's condition reads a node's value. A swarm's cannot: its members answer separately, none of them sees another's answer, and the only place several agents can be observed agreeing is the board they agreed on. Two things are settled here rather than left to whoever writes the goal: - **A vote is a line, not a shape.** `VOTE: Rust` is what a small model writes correctly on its first turn, where a JSON object comes back fenced, commented on, or explained. {@link saysWord} takes the same liberties with decoration and for the same reason: `**VOTE: Rust**` is a vote, and so is `vote : rust.` - **The instruction and the parser live together.** A stop condition that depends on a format nobody was told about never fires, and a format told in one file and read in another drifts the first time either is edited. ## `agreed` *function* ```typescript export function agreed(members: number): (board: Board) => boolean { /* … */ } ``` Everybody has voted, and every vote is the same one. It takes the roster size rather than counting whoever spoke: three members of which two agree have not agreed, and a test that read only the votes cast would stop the moment the first two matched. A member that dropped out therefore never lets this fire, and the run spends its rounds and reports `converged: false`. That is the honest end of it - agents that stopped talking have agreed on nothing. ## `latestVotes` *function* ```typescript export function latestVotes(posts: readonly Post[]): Map { /* … */ } ``` What each member voted for last, by the id the board stamped on its posts. The latest post wins, because changing your mind is the thing being watched for and a run scored on opening positions cannot see it happen. Within one post it is the first vote line that counts, which is where the member was told to put it: a member quoting somebody else's vote underneath its own has quoted, not voted. For the same reason only a `result` is read, which is what {@link VOTE_INSTRUCTION} asks the vote to be posted as: a `tell` answering somebody's vote quotes it on its first line as often as not. ## `VOTE_INSTRUCTION` *const* ```typescript export const VOTE_INSTRUCTION = [ "Post your answer to the board as a `result` whose first line is exactly `VOTE: `, with nothing else on that line.", "You may vote differently from one turn to the next, and it is your last vote that counts.", "This ends when every one of you has voted for the same thing.", ].join(" "); ``` What to append to a goal so the members vote in a way that can be counted. Appended rather than written into an agent definition: agreement is what one *run* is for, and a definition that asked for a vote every time would have every other run posting one nobody reads.