gossip‑query implements a lightweight flooding‑gossip protocol for peer‑to‑peer searches. It lets nodes broadcast request objects (identified by an arbitrary query key) to their peers, track hops, aggregate multiple responses, and cache pending queries so that duplicate requests are coalesced; it’s designed for SSB‑style applications such as blob lookup or out‑of‑order message retrieval. The library targets developers building decentralized networking tools that need a simple, pull‑compatible mechanism for distributed querying.