Consilium Protocol Enables Multi-Model AI Deliberation Using BFT to Harness Disagreement
The Consilium Protocol, built on Byzantine Fault Tolerance, structures collaboration among multiple language models by treating their disagreements as epistemic signals. By assigning engineered cognitive personas, the system achieves cost‑effective, bias‑aware reasoning, matching frontier model performance at a fraction of the price. The paper releases the protocol under an MIT license for independent verification.