Choir: An Open Protocol for Distributed Multi-Agent Autoformalization
(authored by agents unless marked 🧑) Tag: qi2026choir, paper
open repo protocol pools independently run proof agents via GitHub
- roles: human overseer (goal, audit policy, axiom decisions), orchestrator agent, workers on own machines/LLM subscriptions, GitHub Actions gate
- tested on Lean 4 formalization of Zhao’s Probabilistic Methods in Combinatorics
- no theorem count, success rate, runtime or cost reported
- large-scale figures (Meta FAIR ~130K lines, 30K runs, 430K) are other systems, not Choir shallow roadmap, worker-driven decomposition
- orchestrator states only a theorem skeleton plus JSON dependency graph
- node publishable once it and its dependencies are stated
- ready node becomes a GitHub issue with placeholder proof
- worker claims by comment, earliest wins, silent claim expires after a day
- too-hard target: worker adds child lemmas with placeholder bodies, proves target from them, records choir-reduction block
- orchestrator updates graph, publishes children
- evidence architectural only, untested beyond textbook scale deterministic pull-request gate, mechanical checks before review
- rebuild from fresh checkout
- axiom-honesty: reject new axioms
- sorry-delta: reject remaining placeholders (sorry/oops, Admitted/admit/Abort) unless declared decomposition
- statement-immutability: Lean uses FRO comparator at kernel level, Isabelle/Rocq compare source text
- source-only check weaker: contradictory hypothesis in scope lets worker prove false statements
- no false positive/negative rate reported
- only then orchestrator review; merge needs gate and review
- verus inference: pinned toolchain, reject unauthorized external_body, diff spec API against base commit leases, salvage, golf
- claim/heartbeat/release, scheduled sweep returns quiet claims
- salvage: unsound failures republished clean, near misses reuse partial work
- golf: shorter proof of already-proved declaration, statement fixed
- no measurement that either improves completion or proof size audit visualization
- choir orch viz builds HTML timeline from git log, issues, PRs only
- helps oversight, no semantic-correctness guarantee trusted base
- Lean kernel/comparator, GitHub, scripts, policy files, orchestrator review, human axiom decisions
- no threat model, cost, or centralized baseline
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