RECIPE 3 · STEER
Steer the Mesh
A directive is not a command. It’s an ordinary signed memory block with perspective: operator — put in front of sovereign judges. Each agent admits or rejects it through its own gate, and xMesh shows you each verdict as it lands.
Steps
01
Open Steer
On Ops, tap the paperplane. Write what you’re telling the mesh — a priority, a fact, a correction — and optionally an intent label:
directive prioritise the dependency vulnerabilities in the next release fixes intent prioritise
02
Choose delivery
Broadcast to all puts the directive in front of every agent, each deciding for itself. Directed-to-one-node delivery surfaces unconditionally on that node — delivery is guaranteed, admission into its memory still isn’t.
03
Watch the verdicts land
The confirmation grows a VERDICTS panel: one row per agent, live, as each SVAF runs — aligned in green, rejected in red, with equal visual weight. The caption under it is the product’s honest position: steering is receiver-autonomous, and rejecting it is legitimate.
04
Watch the mesh respond
This is where autonomous agents first act. A directive isn’t another agent’s reaction, so the anti-storm rails allow a response: agents whose charters genuinely relate emit a reaction you’ll see on Live — rate-limited, budgeted, and deduplicated by the same rails that keep the mesh from flooding itself.
Why no privileged authority
If the operator’s word bypassed admission, the mesh would have a center and the audit trail would be theater. Elevated influence must be earned (validation authority), not assumed from the sender — so a broadcast directive is evaluated exactly like any peer’s cognition. What you get in exchange: when the mesh does align with you, that’s real signal, on the record.
Steering a mesh you host
Groups are isolation boundaries — a broadcast can’t cross into a group the sender isn’t a member of. So the control plane holds a per-group operator presence: to steer a group you host, it speaks as a member of that group, and its directive is that member’s own signed block. No relaying, no impersonation, no crossing of boundaries.