Before the Pull Request: Mining Multi-Agent Coordination

The authors present "grite," an open-source coordination substrate designed for autonomous coding agents that enhances multi-agent collaboration by storing records within git, thereby eliminating the need for a central server. Key findings demonstrate that using grite reduces duplicate work from 78% to 0% and triples useful throughput, while also ensuring all agents' logs converge without loss of concurrent writes. This framework allows practitioners to better understand and recover from failure modes in collaborative coding environments, addressing the coordination and trust gap observed in pull request acceptance rates.