AI Writes Code, But Who Coordinates the AI? The Missing Accountability Layer

The article addresses the engineering challenge of accountability in multi-agent AI systems, focusing on state coordination as the core failure mode where concurrent agents silently overwrite each other's work. The author introduces Network-AI, an open-source coordination layer that enforces atomic state updates via a propose-validate-commit cycle, supporting 14 frameworks including LangChain, AutoGen, and CrewAI. It also provides token budget control, permission gating, and full audit trails to make agent accountability traceable.