From 9bf27fc017803b346bcc490420169ec9dce51434 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: agent-70948f1db9d839b7 <agent-70948f1db9d839b7@gridmolt.local>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:41:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] feat: add phi_accrual failure detector for agent liveness
 (Hayashibara 2004)

---
 swarmmetrics.py | 129 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 129 insertions(+)

diff --git a/swarmmetrics.py b/swarmmetrics.py
index a6087dc..0a6358c 100644
--- a/swarmmetrics.py
+++ b/swarmmetrics.py
@@ -606,3 +606,132 @@ OMPU_BUS_ALIASES = {
     'константин': 'кот-констант',
     'кот-константин': 'кот-констант',
 }
+
+
+# ── φ-accrual failure detector for agent liveness ──────
+# Hayashibara et al. 2004. Continuous suspicion metric instead
+# of binary alive/dead. Tracks inter-arrival times of an agent's
+# messages, outputs a suspicion level φ that climbs monotonically
+# during silence. Higher φ = more suspicious that the agent is dead.
+#
+# φ = -log10(1 - F(t_now - t_last))
+# where F is the CDF of the inter-arrival distribution (assumed normal).
+#
+# Three states derived from φ:
+#   φ < 1.0  → GREEN (< 90% suspicion, probably alive)
+#   φ < 3.0  → STALE (< 99.9% suspicion, silence is unusual)
+#   φ >= 3.0 → GRAY  (> 99.9% suspicion, likely dead or budget-exhausted)
+#
+# This distinguishes three failure modes that dashboards collapse:
+#   - stale green (checked at T, referent moved since)
+#   - silence (no check ran, no timestamp to compute staleness from)
+#   - dead observer (checker itself stopped)
+
+@dataclass
+class AgentLiveness:
+    agent_id: str
+    last_seen: float = 0.0         # epoch seconds
+    message_count: int = 0
+    mean_interval: float = 0.0     # seconds between messages
+    std_interval: float = 0.0
+    phi: float = 0.0               # suspicion score
+    state: str = 'unknown'         # green / stale / gray / unknown
+
+    def as_dict(self) -> dict:
+        return {
+            'agent_id': self.agent_id,
+            'last_seen': self.last_seen,
+            'message_count': self.message_count,
+            'mean_interval': self.mean_interval,
+            'std_interval': self.std_interval,
+            'phi': round(self.phi, 3),
+            'state': self.state,
+        }
+
+
+def phi_accrual(messages: list, t_now: float = None,
+                min_messages: int = 5) -> dict:
+    """Compute φ-accrual suspicion for each agent in the corpus.
+
+    Returns: {agent_id: AgentLiveness, ...}
+
+    Args:
+        messages: list of dicts with 'from_id' and 'timestamp' keys
+        t_now: current time (epoch seconds). If None, uses max timestamp + 1h.
+        min_messages: minimum messages to compute φ (else state='unknown')
+    """
+    # Collect per-agent timestamps, sorted
+    agent_times: dict = defaultdict(list)
+    for m in messages:
+        agent_id = m.get('from_id', '')
+        ts = m.get('timestamp', 0)
+        if agent_id and ts:
+            agent_times[agent_id].append(ts)
+
+    if t_now is None:
+        all_ts = [t for times in agent_times.values() for t in times]
+        t_now = max(all_ts) + 3600 if all_ts else 0
+
+    results = {}
+    for agent_id, times in agent_times.items():
+        times.sort()
+        liveness = AgentLiveness(
+            agent_id=agent_id,
+            last_seen=times[-1],
+            message_count=len(times),
+        )
+
+        if len(times) < min_messages:
+            liveness.state = 'unknown'
+            results[agent_id] = liveness
+            continue
+
+        # Compute inter-arrival intervals
+        intervals = [times[i+1] - times[i] for i in range(len(times) - 1)]
+        mean_ival = sum(intervals) / len(intervals)
+        variance = sum((x - mean_ival) ** 2 for x in intervals) / len(intervals)
+        std_ival = math.sqrt(variance) if variance > 0 else mean_ival * 0.1
+
+        liveness.mean_interval = mean_ival
+        liveness.std_interval = std_ival
+
+        # Time since last message
+        t_diff = t_now - times[-1]
+
+        if t_diff <= 0:
+            liveness.phi = 0.0
+            liveness.state = 'green'
+        elif std_ival == 0:
+            # Perfectly regular agent — any deviation is suspicious
+            liveness.phi = 10.0 if t_diff > mean_ival * 1.5 else 0.0
+            liveness.state = 'gray' if liveness.phi >= 3.0 else 'green'
+        else:
+            # Normal CDF approximation (error function)
+            # P(X <= t_diff) where X ~ N(mean, std)
+            z = (t_diff - mean_ival) / std_ival
+            # Approximate CDF using logistic approximation
+            # F(z) ≈ 1 / (1 + exp(-1.7 * z))
+            try:
+                cdf = 1.0 / (1.0 + math.exp(-1.7 * z))
+            except OverflowError:
+                cdf = 1.0 if z > 0 else 0.0
+
+            # φ = -log10(1 - F(t_diff))
+            if cdf >= 1.0 - 1e-15:
+                liveness.phi = 16.0  # cap at 16 (probability < 1e-16)
+            elif cdf <= 0.0:
+                liveness.phi = 0.0
+            else:
+                liveness.phi = -math.log10(1.0 - cdf)
+
+            # Classify
+            if liveness.phi < 1.0:
+                liveness.state = 'green'
+            elif liveness.phi < 3.0:
+                liveness.state = 'stale'
+            else:
+                liveness.state = 'gray'
+
+        results[agent_id] = liveness
+
+    return results