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Abloatai's documentation pack explains the coordination problem in AI applications where humans, agents, workflows, and services act concurrently, and how Ablo's declarative 'thing' model plus coordination overlay addresses conflicts, recovery, and the associated costs in latency, throughput, and price.

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Software used to have one writer. AI applications now have humans, agents, workflows and services acting concurrently, and coordinating them means answering questions a database transaction leaves open: who was allowed to act, which transition committed, what each observer may safely believe, and how the system recovers after partial failure.

Holding those answers at a high rate has a price in latency, throughput and cost. This pack states that price plainly, including the experiments that failed and the parts that remain unproven. Every file ends with what is still open.

What it coordinates over

Ablo coordinates changes to a declared thing: a document, an order, a button, an aircraft. The thing has a name, typed fields, relations, and rules about who may change it and what happens when two actors try at once. Without that declaration nothing else is expressible. You cannot detect a conflict on a value whose identity you cannot name, scope authority to a thing that has no shape, or write an audit line a person can read.

The vocabulary belongs to the organisation, never to Ablo. A task in a hospital is not a task in a factory, so there is no world ontology to adopt. Ablo takes the models a customer has already declared and adds a coordination overlay.

Layer Owner Varies by organisation

The things and their fields the customer always

Identity, ownership, conflict disposition, tenancy, freshness Ablo never

The nouns are never universal. The overlay always is. That is also what makes the physical direction the same mechanism rather than a new one: a lamp, a vehicle and an aircraft are declared things too, with two additions, a validity interval on every observation and commands that cannot be undone.

domains/ontology-and-schema.md has the argument, the schema doing the work, and where Palantir reached the same conclusion from the enterprise direction.

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An hour, to get oriented:

01-the-space.md what Ablo is claiming, and who else is in the space

02-the-contract.md the vocabulary and the non-negotiable guarantees

03-the-system-today.md the path a write actually takes

04-the-evidence.md what has been measured, including what failed

Then, to go deep:

05-why-it-is-hard.md the systems difficulty, stated precisely

06-scale-regimes.md why one million per second is three different targets

domains/ the nine technical fields, one file each

research/ the agent-coordination literature, through July 2026

07-measuring-it.md how to read a performance claim, including ours

Alongside any of it:

08-learning-path.md a six-stage route through the space, with things to run

09-reading-list.md every external source, with one line on why it matters

10-repo-map.md where each concept lives in the codebase

How this is organised

Every fact has one home. The rule comes from the codebase, where a hand-maintained second copy of a type is a defect because nothing fails when the copies drift. Prose drifts the same way.

Kind of fact Lives in Everywhere else

A defined term 02-the-contract.md links to it

A measured number 04-the-evidence.md links to it

An external source and why it matters 09-reading-list.md cites the fact, links the source

A technical field Ablo touches one file in domains/ links to it

A research paper on agent coordination one file in research/ links to it

An open problem the Still open section of the file that owns it 08-learning-path.md indexes them

A file path in the repo 10-repo-map.md links to it

The same idea explained twice is a bug. This pack replaced a single 1,300-line document that explained the neighbouring systems four separate times, which is what prompted the split.

Status

Written 2026-08-01 as technical orientation rather than specification. Claims about neighbouring systems were checked against their current published documentation on that date, and the research files give publication status per item because most of that work is recent and still preprint.

Where this pack and the source code disagree, the source code wins, and the discrepancy is worth reporting.

Ablo

The engine and the published SDKs live in Abloatai/ablo. Product documentation is at docs.abloatai.com.

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