JEP Primitive Skills

JEP Primitive Skills — Atomic Reference Implementations of Judge, Delegate, Terminate, Verify for Agent Collaboration Grammar

Atomic Reference Implementations of Judge, Delegate, Terminate, Verify

The Four Primitives

Primitive	Verb	Purpose
Judge	J	Initiate an observation assertion
Delegate	D	Transfer authority to another agent
Terminate	T	Close the lifecycle of a prior assertion
Verify	V	Cross-validate an existing assertion

Complete Cognitive Interaction Algebra

These four primitives form a complete algebra:

• J creates state.
• V validates state.
• D distributes responsibility for state.
• T invalidates state.

Any complex multi-agent collaboration decomposes into ordered combinations of these four atoms. No fifth primitive is required.

Protocol Alignment

All events produced are strict JEP-04 compliant:

• jep: "1"
• verb: J/D/T/V
• who: issuer DID
• when: Unix timestamp
• what: SHA-256 multihash of payload
• nonce: UUIDv4
• aud: target
• ref: chain link
• sig: JWS signature
• task_based_on: JAC-01 parent task hash

Integration

Events feed directly into:

• Determinability-Checker — causal sufficiency verification
• COE-Consensus — shared world state formation
• JEP-Guard-Audit — compliance chain generation

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