Swarm
identical agents build on a shared scratchpad
Swarm architecture
v9 swarmA swarm of identical, role-less agents works the same problem over several rounds. Each round, every agent reads the shared scratchpad of contributions so far and adds one improvement — the answer emerges from accumulated traces (stigmergy), with no roles or central coordinator. A final pass distills the scratchpad.
identical agents build on a shared scratchpad
- 1A swarm of identical agents all see the same shared scratchpad.
- 2Each round, every agent reads the scratchpad and adds one improvement or new angle.
- 3Contributions accumulate as traces others build on — no roles, no coordinator.
- 4After a few rounds, a final pass distills the scratchpad into the answer.
Open-ended ideation and refinement that benefits from many cheap passes converging.
No structure means redundancy and drift; convergence isn’t guaranteed, so it’s round-capped.
The most “emergent” of the patterns — no roles, just many agents nudging a shared draft forward. Great for divergent ideation; weakest when the task needs a single rigorous line of reasoning.