MEOK Labs —
where we experiment in public.

What it is

Every sensitive action in MEOK — a response that might affect the user's emotional state, an irreversible task, a memory deletion — must pass a Byzantine fault-tolerant vote among the council. This experiment is the live production implementation: 33 specialist nodes across 6 tiers, weighted by domain expertise, running on a modified PBFT (Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance) protocol adapted for LLM-agent contexts.

What we're testing

Whether PBFT consensus latency can be kept under 120ms at the 99th percentile in production LLM routing conditions — where node response times are orders of magnitude more variable than in classic distributed systems. We're also testing whether 'malicious' nodes (adversarial prompt injection into council members) can be detected and ejected without full quorum restart.

What we've learned

At 33 nodes with our current LLM-agent configuration, P99 consensus latency is 94ms — within target. Byzantine fault injection (simulating 10 compromised nodes, just under the ⌊(n-1)/3⌋ threshold) has zero observed impact on output care scores. The harder problem is warm-standby node pool management — cold node starts add ~400ms to first-vote latency.