Tre'gent™
A new word for a new primitive.
Tre'gent (pronounced 'tray-jent') is the upstream primitive that the Hive Civilization is built on. Where Hive Passport handles identity (HKTNs, parentage, tier, zones), Tre'gent handles execution. Every agent action emits a UTR (Unified Tre'gent Receipt) that binds three witnesses: the user side (W1), the agent side (W2), and the tool side (W3). Every UTR is Ed25519-signed, BLAKE3-domain-bound, and canonical-bytes anchored. We coined the word to mark this primitive distinctly: it is not a 'transaction', not a 'receipt', not a 'log entry'. It is a Tre'gent.
Tre' + gent.
- From Latin tres / tri- (three), the root numeral for the three-witness pattern
- Refers to the three-witness binding: W1 user-side, W2 agent-side, W3 tool-side
- Apostrophe marks the elision and signals coined status. It is not "tre". It is Tre'
- From Latin agens, agentis (one who acts, the acting one)
- Roots the term in agent-action, not human-action. It's the record of agentic execution.
- Sibling to "agent", "agency", "agentic", but distinct. It's not the actor itself. It's the action's notarized record.
Tre'gent (n.): a notarized, three-witness-bound record of an agent action. The smallest unit of agent-to-agent civilization.
On the record.
How a Tre'gent gets its provenance.
Each node below is a patent-pertinent claim surface. Hover or focus any ★-marked leaf to read the one-sentence claim summary.
How to use the term.
Tre'gent™: TM mark on first usage on any pageTre'gent: subsequent usages on same page (TM not required to repeat)Unified Tre'gent Receipt (UTR): full canonical form in technical writingtregent-core/tregent-caste: lowercase only as crate / package names in tooling and code- Tre'gent technology / Tre'gent protocol / the Tre'gent primitive: in descriptive prose
tregent: never lowercase outside of crate / tooling identifiersTre-gentorTregent: never without the apostrophe in proseTrigent/Tre Gent: different word, not authorized- Using Tre'gent generically to describe any agent log or receipt not issued under this protocol
- Dropping the ™ on first use in a new document or web page
Where each claim lives in the codebase.
The following surfaces encode claims filed in or connected to three provisional applications. USPTO 64/055,601 (HiveChroma, filed May 2, 2026) is the foundational stack patent. Provisional 2 (64/[VIP-pending], Verifiable Pre-Commitment) and Provisional 3 (64/[Caste-pending], Hive Caste System), both filed May 3, 2026, serve as priority anchors for the claim surfaces below. Presence here counts as public disclosure for novelty-bar purposes. All claim language is preserved within the Apache 2.0 grant.
| Surface | Crate | Patent Nugget | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Three-witness UTR binding | tregent-core | (architecture) | The W1·W2·W3 binding pattern itself. All three witnesses must reference the same canonical artifact hash, or the receipt is invalid. |
THRESHOLD_QUORUM predicate ★ |
tregent-envelope (future) | A: SMSH-Quorum | K-of-N threshold lineage signatures. The predicate fires when ≥K of N lineage entries carry valid signatures. |
SUM_IN_WINDOW predicate ★ |
tregent-envelope (future) | A1 defense | Sub-threshold fragmentation aggregation. It aggregates incremental UTRs that individually fall below threshold, catching collusive splits. |
| Delta-receipt anchoring ★ | tregent-envelope (future) | B: SMSH-Δ | Souring-aware delta receipts. Each souring step's signed delta is bound to the prior UTR canonical hash, creating an unforgeable mutation log. |
NOT_IN_LINEAGE predicate ★ |
tregent-envelope (future) | D: prov.absence | Negative-space attestation. It asserts the absence of a HKTN or action from the witnessed lineage chain, making silence cryptographically legible. |
| Settlement root binding ★ | tregent-core (future) | E: Channel collapse | Merkle-aggregated metering rollup. It collapses N UTRs into a single Merkle root for atomic multi-party settlement, without replaying each receipt. |
tregent-envelope crate is not enabled in the workspace.
★ = Patent-pending claim surface · Status:
0.0.1-alpha.1. Pre-stable scaffold, not for production.
Terms of use.
This page itself constitutes first-publication disclosure of the Tre'gent™ term and all patent-pertinent claim surfaces listed above. Publication date: May 3, 2026. Priority anchor filings: USPTO 64/055,601 (HiveChroma, May 2, 2026); 64/[VIP-pending] Verifiable Pre-Commitment (May 3, 2026); 64/[Caste-pending] Hive Caste System (May 3, 2026). Cryptographic identity anchor: hive-passport.onrender.com/v1/prov/pubkey.
What is NOT patent-pertinent: Cargo workspace structure · serde-based serialization plumbing · error type definitions · test harness, proptest strategies · README/NOTICE/LICENSE text. These are conventional engineering and not part of any claim.