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Distributed Knowledge Module - Future Enhancements

Scope

• hardening and refinement of cross-shard federation workflows
• expansion of deterministic reliability under timeout and partial-failure pressure
• stricter benchmark-backed guardrails for aggregation, merge, and sync hot paths
• v2.x federation roadmap aligned with Phase 2-3 hardening (Q4 2026)

Design Constraints

• distributed contracts remain backward compatible within major release line.
• privacy/policy/trust gates remain explicit and fail closed.
• shard timeout and partial-response handling remain bounded and observable.
• federated state transitions remain auditable and diagnosable.

Required Interfaces

Interface	Requirement
capability interfaces	deterministic cross-shard announcement behavior
federation interfaces	bounded aggregation intake and round semantics
merge interfaces	stable partial-failure-aware cross-shard merge contracts
sync/distillation interfaces	privacy-aware synchronization and policy-governed distillation

Implementation Notes

• tighten parity of policy/privacy behavior across all federation workflows.
• standardize diagnostics for timeout, replay/dedup, and trust-gate rejections.
• expand resilience tests for sustained multi-shard mixed capability states.
• broaden benchmark depth to additional distillation and governance paths.

Test Strategy

• unit and integration suites for federation and merge execution paths.
• regressions for timeout, dedup, policy, and partial-shard failure scenarios.
• deterministic stress runs across shard permutation and topology cases.
• release-profile benchmark runs for mapped distributed_knowledge targets.

Performance Targets

• aggregation and merge hot paths remain within regression budgets.
• concurrent cross-shard behavior remains stable at p95/p99.
• benchmark manifests for mapped distributed_knowledge targets reach no-missing-case status.

Security / Reliability

• maintain strict policy/privacy/trust gating for cross-shard actions.
• preserve explicit failure signaling for degraded shard/dependency states.
• enforce bounded merge/sync behavior under pressure.
• keep diagnostics actionable for production federation incidents.

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