Making Minds

Slipstream: Semantic Quantization for Multi-Agent Coordination

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Overview

nSLIP (Streamlined Lightweight Intragent Protocol) is a communication standard designed to reduce the token overhead of structured data exchange between AI agents.

Key Features

  • Token Reduction: Achieves 60-85% reduction in token usage compared to standard JSON.
  • Cost Efficiency: Significantly lowers the cost of high-frequency agent-to-agent communication.
  • Syntax Optimization: Removes redundant delimiters (curly braces, quotes) while maintaining machine-readability for LLMs.

Context

Developed as a practical engineering solution to the “JSON tax”—the significant cost and latency penalty incurred by verbose structured data formats in multi-agent systems. It was later integrated into the Manifold Resonance Architecture as a core communication protocol.