Friction-Minimal Intersubjective Contracts for No-Meta Autonomous Agents

This paper presents a protocol-first specification for No-Meta intersubjective contracts: negotiation, conditional exchange, and dispute handling for autonomous agents operating under partial, local observability and without a privileged evaluator. The design is explicitly adversarial and interoperability-oriented: it remains autonomy-preserving and gaming-resistant even when counterparties are non-adopting, partially adopting, faulty, or malicious. Rather than claiming general fair exchange in an asynchronous setting without trusted third parties, the protocol targets bounded-loss, fail-closed safe withdrawal and auditable, budgeted evidence. Settlement is generalized beyond monetary payments through…