What is Federation?
Federation — Coordination across independent systems or organizations without surrendering control to a center.
Federation lets separate parties interoperate while staying autonomous — sharing capability or data across boundaries under agreed rules. For agentic systems spanning companies and jurisdictions, federation is how scale happens without a single point of control.
Where federation sits in the stack
In the four-layer architecture of the agentic web, federation is a Meta-category (L3) concept — it consolidates fan-out within a category. See the thesis for how the layers compound.
Federation in the portfolio
84 positions in the Semantic Substrate portfolio carry the Federation primitive — 34 available individually, 50 held as a coordinated set. Explore the Federation cluster →
Quick answers
- What is Federation in agentic systems?
- Coordination across independent systems or organizations without surrendering control to a center.
- Where does Federation sit in the agentic stack?
- Federation sits at the Meta-category (L3) layer — it consolidates fan-out within a category.
- How many Federation domain positions exist in the Semantic Substrate portfolio?
- 84 positions carry the Federation primitive — 34 available individually, the rest held as a coordinated set.
Related primitives
Held in the portfolio under Federation.