BrokerChain

SwarmHarness: Decentralized Skill-Based Task Routing Protocol for AI Agent Networks

SwarmHarness is a proposed decentralized protocol enabling AI compute sharing and task routing across heterogeneous nodes (workstations, inference servers, edge devices) without a central coordinator. It combines a DHT-based registry for peer discovery, a utility-function router dispatching tasks by capability/load/latency/trust, and a Shapley-value-based credit mechanism to align incentives among participating nodes. The system is designed as a foundational primitive for autonomous multi-agent networks where agents can hire compute, route subtasks, and settle credits without human intermediation. It positions itself against existing approaches like Golem, BrokerChain, BOINC, and Petals by integrating decentralization with a native incentive layer.