Perception

Geo-Identity Agent Navigation & Tasking

The first AI orchestrator that knows where it is.

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What is GEIANT?

GEIANT is a geospatial AI agent orchestration runtime built on the GNS Protocol. It is a direct competitor to LangChain, CrewAI, and AutoGen — with one structural difference: every agent has a cryptographic identity bound to an H3 territory, and every task is routed through a compliance enforcement layer before dispatch.

LangChain doesn't know where it is. GEIANT does.

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The Ant Metaphor

In GEIANT, agents are ants. Ants are the canonical model of emergent collective intelligence from simple agents following spatial rules. Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a real algorithm used in routing and pathfinding. The colony is the orchestrated workflow. The territory is the H3 grid.

• An ant (AntIdentity) is an agent with a GNS Ed25519 keypair + H3 territory + facet scope + trust tier
• The colony is a multi-agent workflow where ants delegate and collaborate
• The nest is the Agent Registry — the directory of available ants
• The trail is the Virtual Breadcrumb chain — the Proof-of-Jurisdiction audit log

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Architecture

L6  Multi-Agent Orchestration    — task graph, delegation chain enforcement
L5  IDUP Settlement Layer        — Stellar payment routing per operation  
L4  MCP GIS Switchboard          — GDAL / PostGIS / ArcGIS / QGIS / EO models
L3  Perception Layer             — IBM Prithvi, Microsoft Clay (EO Foundation Models)
L2  Geometry Validation Layer    — GEOS-backed guardrails, self-intersection detection
L1  Geospatial Router            — H3 jurisdiction matching, TierGate enforcement
L0  Agent Identity & Registry    — Ed25519 + H3 + GNS-AIP (LIVE in gns-node)

Phase 0 (this repo): L0 + L1 + L2 core logic, tests, and API scaffold.

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Monorepo Structure

geiant/
├── packages/
│   ├── core/          @geiant/core — types, router, validation, registry, jurisdiction
│   └── sdk/           @geiant/sdk  — developer-facing SDK (Phase 1)
├── apps/
│   └── api/           @geiant/api  — Express REST API
└── docs/              Architecture docs, ADRs

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The Four Router Gates

Every task passes through four gates before any ant is selected:

1. Signature Verification — Ed25519 signature over canonical task JSON
2. Jurisdiction Resolution — H3 cell → country → regulatory frameworks (GDPR, EU AI Act, FINMA, CCPA...)
3. Delegation Chain Validation — human GNS identity → delegation cert → scope cells + facets + expiry
4. Geometry Pre-flight — GEOS-backed validation: self-intersection, coordinate transposition, unclosed rings

Only tasks that pass all four are dispatched. The router is a compliance enforcement point, not a load balancer.

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Getting Started

# Install dependencies
pnpm install

# Run tests
pnpm test

# Start dev API
pnpm dev

# Test routing endpoint
curl http://localhost:3100/health
curl http://localhost:3100/registry
curl http://localhost:3100/jurisdiction/8728d55ffffffff   # Rome H3 cell
curl http://localhost:3100/route/test

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Competitive Position

Feature	LangChain	CrewAI	GEIANT
Agent identity	API key	API key	Ed25519 GNS keypair
Task routing	Capability + cost	Capability + cost	H3 jurisdiction + compliance
Audit trail	Logs	Logs	Virtual breadcrumbs (crypto)
Geometry validation	None	None	Built-in guardrails
Human accountability	None	None	Delegation chain
Regulatory compliance	Manual	Manual	Proof-of-Jurisdiction

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Patent & IP

GNS Protocol Provisional Patent #63/948,788 (Proof-of-Trajectory).
GEIANT's Proof-of-Jurisdiction is a second patentable claim extending this.

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License

Protocol spec: CC-BY
Core library: Apache 2.0
Managed runtime: Proprietary

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