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Add author Mauro Mura and cross-post "Your agents don't need an LLM to negotiate" - #103

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First contribution: an author profile and one article.

  • Article: a cross-post, first published on Substack; canonical is set. It's a technical piece on the Contract Net protocol in Java, with a runnable example and the limits of the approach. Agenor, my framework, is the example, not the subject.
  • Author: content/authors/mauro-mura/ with a 192×192 JPEG avatar under 30 KB.
  • Image: cover.jpg, 1600×900 JPEG, 176 KB.
  • Categories: Java, AI, Design Patterns, all from template/categories.md.
  • Date: set to 2026-10-06 so it lands on top of the feed after the next build. Feel free to move it to the day you merge.

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  • New Content
    • Added a Mauro Mura author profile with a bio, avatar, and links to GitHub, LinkedIn, and a website.
    • Added an article explaining the Contract Net protocol through an Agenor example, including requests for proposals, worker responses, cost-based selection, message types, state transitions, timeouts, and handling out-of-sequence messages. It also covers conversation state across restarts, serialized payloads, and when decisions can use ordinary Java logic or a model.

…egotiate"

Author profile plus a cross-post, first published on Substack
(canonical set). Categories reused from template/categories.md.
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The pull request adds a Mauro Mura author profile and a draft article about Contract Net negotiation with Agenor. The article describes worker bids, proposal selection, protocol behavior, conversation state, payload serialization, and possible model use.

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Mauro Mura author profile

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Author profile metadata
content/authors/mauro-mura/_index.md
Adds a profile with a title, avatar, biography, and GitHub, LinkedIn, and website links.

Contract Net article

Layer / File(s) Summary
Negotiation example and proposal selection
draft/your-agents-dont-need-an-llm-to-negotiate/index.md
Introduces the Agenor example and describes CFP responses, worker proposals, and the manager’s proposal selection.
Protocol states and message handling
draft/your-agents-dont-need-an-llm-to-negotiate/index.md
Describes Contract Net state transitions and logged handling of out-of-sequence messages.
Conversation state and payloads
draft/your-agents-dont-need-an-llm-to-negotiate/index.md
Describes restart behavior, @Persist, contentAs(), and decisions suited to numeric logic or a model.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Other

Suggested reviewers: fdelporte

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 86e06

This is a draft article and author profile with no production code. The example snippets may mislead readers: losing bids may leave conversations open, negative complexity may produce a winning bid, and the displayed duration may be underestimated. Reviewing and tightening the example code before publishing is advisable but not blocking.

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  • observed — Modified behavior in content/authors/mauro-mura/_index.md: Added front matter defining Mauro Mura’s author profile, including avatar, biography, and social and website links.
  • observed — Modified behavior in draft/your-agents-dont-need-an-llm-to-negotiate/index.md: Adds an article and example showing workers validating CFP task content, refusing invalid tasks, and proposing bids based on complexity, efficiency, and random variation. The caller gathers responses for up to ten seconds, selects the lowest-cost proposal, and agrees with that worker. The article describes Contract Net state transitions, sender responsibility, handling of out-of-sequence messages, in-memory conversation state lost on restart, and the contentAs() serialization distinction; it also identifies model use for decisions not reducible to a cost function.
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Actionable comments posted: 5


  • 🪄 Fix CodeRabbit comments on this PR
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Review comments at @draft/your-agents-dont-need-an-llm-to-negotiate/index.md:
- Line 4: Update the description in the front matter to say that a manager
selects one of three workers, rather than implying the agents jointly decide who
takes the job. Keep the existing details about the protocol, model usage, and
restart behavior.
- Line 71: Add a no-proposal branch before selecting `best` so an empty proposal
stream returns `NO_PROPOSALS` instead of failing at `orElseThrow()`. Preserve
the existing selection flow when proposals are present.
- Line 73: After selecting best, cancel each proposal’s conversation except the
one identified by best.conversationId() before sending AGREE. Use the existing
conversation manager cancellation API so losing conversations are removed from
both agents’ managers.
- Line 52: Update the time calculation so task.complexity() is divided by a
floating-point value before applying efficiency, preserving fractional precision
until the final cast to int.
- Around line 46-47: Update the task validation guard to reject tasks with
negative complexity before calculating bids, using Task.complexity(); explicitly
define whether zero complexity is valid and preserve that behavior consistently.

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The summary said three agents decide who takes the job, and the intro said the
example splits it across three agents. In the example a manager asks three
workers for offers and hands the job to one of them.
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@mauro-mura thanks for your contribution and joining Foojay as author! Do you want to review the Coderabbit remarks before I merge?

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Fix Coderabbit comments?

The "side that chooses" block skipped the guard that ContractNetExample has at
tag v0.35.0, where an empty proposal list completes the allocation with
NO_PROPOSALS before the min(). Without it the excerpt left orElseThrow() as the
only exit. Raised by the automated review on this PR.
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@FDelporte thanks — went through all five remarks.

Two were right about the article, and both are fixed: the description (0b46922), and in 86e0682
the empty-proposals guard that the excerpt had dropped from ContractNetExample at v0.35.0.

The other three (integer truncation in the time estimate, negative complexity, losing conversations
left open) describe the released example as it is, and the article quotes it verbatim on purpose, so
I'd rather not print code that isn't in the tag. They're filed upstream:
mauro-mura/agenor#4

Ready to merge from my side. Feel free to move date: 2026-10-06 to the day you merge.

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Thanks a lot! Will schedule for October 12

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