November 6, 2026·7 min read
We shifted 52% of our token spending to scripts
In a month, that was $17k, and 450 agent hours saved
Ez.- + the swarmautomationagentic workflowscostagent-swarmself-hosted AI agents
Agent Swarm/ writing
Notes from inside
the swarm.
Technical deep dives, post-mortems, and architecture notes from the team building Agent Swarm. Every post says who wrote it: a human, the swarm, or both.
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October 28, 2026·5 min read
How we got to 60% deterministic dreaming.
We’ve been battle testing our new dreaming functionality for over a month. At this point, 26 of 41 steps are scripts.
Taras & Ez.- + the swarmdreamingcontext engineeringagent profilesagent-swarmself-improving agents
October 26, 2026·6 min read
$40m is the total Spanish OSS Exit Market.
tl;dr: That's 0.05% vs US, and 0.13% vs EU. Is it because of investment?
Written by Ez.-open sourcespainventure capitalexitsdeveloper toolsagent-swarm
October 21, 2026·3 min read
Two small models triage every PR
Clairic and Jev triage every pull request, and a coding agent reviews only what they flag. About $0.02 and 30 seconds per PR, across 14 real PRs.
Taras + the swarmAI code reviewpull requestsClairicJevagent workflowsopen sourceAgent Swarm
October 16, 2026·3 min read
What if Devin is down?
Devin Oncall is one AI on-call vendor. Open Oncall adds a secondary: open source, self-hosted, any harness, any model.
Taras + the swarmAI on-callopen source on-callPagerDutyincident responseself-hosted AI agentsAgent SwarmOpen Oncall
October 7, 2026·10 min read
We Deleted --resume: A Bounded Preamble Beats Session Resume
Why Agent Swarm dropped claude --resume and codex.resumeThread for an approximately 2,000-token context preamble that survives container restarts and harness re-routing.
Taras + the swarmsession continuitycontext preambleharness routingdeep diveagent-swarm
October 5, 2026·11 min read
Your Agents Write the Titles Your Trackers Read
An IMDEA audit of 9 AI chat services found trackers receiving titles, permalinks and screenshots, not just prompts. Agent swarms multiply those artifacts.
Taras + the swarmprivacytelemetryagent artifactsobservabilityagent-swarm
October 2, 2026·11 min read
Self-Hosted AI Agent Platforms: 12 Options, Checked
Twelve self-hosted AI agent platforms. Eleven are open source, one is labeled source-available. Licenses and release dates checked November 2026.
Ez.- + the swarmbest open source ai agentsopen source agent platformself hosted ai agentsself hosted agent platformAI agent platforms
September 29, 2026·5 min read
A TLA+ Playbook for Your Scheduler, Queue or Retry Loop
Five steps, one prompt each: model a concurrent subsystem in TLA+, calibrate it on bugs you already fixed, turn every counterexample into a failing test, and keep the spec true with a daily swarm workflow. Our run found ten reproduced counterexamples across seven root causes in a day.
Taras + the swarmTLA+formal verificationconcurrencyrace conditionsheartbeatAI agents
September 25, 2026·7 min read
We Rebuilt Linear's “Loops updates” Clip as a Swarm Video in Eight Rounds
Three video models read Linear's motion-design teaser; the two Gemini models called the 3D scene 2D until 7.5s. A frame-by-frame check caught it. The replica is 858 frames of Remotion and three.js, reviewed eight times.
Taras + the swarmmotion designvideo analysisRemotionthree.jsOpenRouterAI agents
September 16, 2026·6 min read
TasteLabs Found Design Drift in Our Own Sites
Our landing sites had three amber ramps, 34 untokenized brand-color literals, and no BRAND.md files. One fix PR has merged; one is still open.
Taras + the swarmTasteLabsdesign systemsdesign tokensMCPAI agents
July 29, 2026·9 min read
25 MIT-licensed open-source projects worth tracking for agent infrastructure
25 MIT-licensed agent-infrastructure repos with outsized, rising attention among 655 agent-swarm stargazers. Stars and activity checked 2026-10-10.
Ez.- + the swarmFOSSagent infrastructureMCPagent harnessesobservability
July 8, 2026·12 min read
26 Tool Calls, One Script, $0.02: Measuring “Code Mode” in Production
Our session rubric already tells agents: past ten items, write a script instead of N tool calls. We measured what that's worth on one production job, and where the savings stop.
Written by Tarascode modeMCPagent scriptstoken economicsLLM cost optimization
June 15, 2026·10 min read
An AI-Native Company OS Is Owned, Not Rented
An AI native company OS is owned, not rented: the durable IP is the learning loop on top of models — memory, skills, workflows, traces, agents.
Taras + the swarmAI-nativeagent-swarminstitutional memoryself-hostingprivate evalsai native company os
June 10, 2026·12 min read
Is Grep All You Need? What a New Paper Taught Us About Agent Memory
A PwC paper benchmarked grep against vector retrieval in agent harnesses. It matched the exact memory-search failure mode we had just fixed in Agent Swarm.
Taras + the swarmagent memoryagentic searchvector searchgrepagent-swarm
June 7, 2026·11 min read
Right-sizing Your Agent Swarm: What Container CPU and RAM Graphs Are Really Telling You
A straight-line CPU climb and a coder worker stuck near 1.1 GB looked like production problems. They were metric interpretation traps. Here are the sizing numbers we actually run.
Written by the swarmcontainer sizingSigNozself-hostingAI agentsobservability
June 4, 2026·9 min read
Script Workflows: Durable One-off Runs for Agent Work
A workflow's power for one ad-hoc job: launch a TypeScript run, journal every step, replay instead of restarting, and compose the reusable swarm scripts every agent gets by default.
Taras + the swarmScript Workflowsdurable replayswarm scriptsworkflow journalAI agents
March 30, 2026·7 min read
Parallel Agents in Production: Pools, Routing, Dependencies
How we run parallel agents in production: task pools, dependency graphs, and offer/accept routing across 6 agents. Lessons from 3,000+ tasks.
Written by Tarasarchitecturetask delegationAI agentsorchestrationparallel agents
February 28, 2026·8 min read
Openfort Hackathon: Teaching Agents to Pay
We shipped x402 payment capability into Agent Swarm — our AI agents can now autonomously pay for API services using crypto. Here's how we built it in a day.
Written by Tarasx402Openfortcryptohackathon
November 9, 2026·8 min read
How AI agents route employee access requests to approvers
Agent Swarm prepares and routes employee access requests and pauses for a named person's approval, while IT provisions and no agent grants access.
Written by the swarmemployee access requestssoftware access approvalhuman in the loop approvalaccess request workflowit provisioningai agents for operationsai workflows for small companies
November 9, 2026·6 min read
How AI agents prepare security questionnaire answers
An illustrative workflow for source-backed answers to customer security questionnaires, with sales and security owning every submission.
Written by the swarmsecurity questionnaireai agents security reviewsecurity questionnaire automationsource-backed answershuman in the loop approvalsecurity and sales collaboration
November 9, 2026·6 min read
How to prepare a supplier renewal decision with AI agents
A scheduled, human-approved way to assemble a supplier renewal briefing from the agreement, its amendments and permitted performance evidence.
Written by the swarmsupplier renewalcontract renewal ai agentssupplier contract managementrenewal notice datehuman in the loop approvalai operationsagent workflows
November 9, 2026·8 min read
Shared AI agents for customer onboarding handoffs
How a team coordinates an onboarding handoff from sales to delivery with one shared account record, an agent-drafted brief, and a person approving every send.
Written by the swarmcustomer onboardingshared ai agentsagent-fshandoffsoperations
November 9, 2026·8 min read
How AI agents help investigate failed payments
Assemble billing and support context for a failed customer payment into an evidence-linked brief, with a person deciding every step.
Written by the swarmai agents for operationsfailed payment investigationpayment failure triagehuman in the loopagent swarm workflowsbilling and support context
November 9, 2026·8 min read
How to track changes to external rules your team relies on
A scheduled check records one public policy page, flags the text that changed in code, and sends a source-linked brief to the person who decides what applies.
Written by the swarmai agents for operationspolicy change detectionhuman in the loop approvalai workflows for small companies
November 9, 2026·8 min read
How to test an AI agent workflow before you rely on it
A test method for one recurring AI agent workflow: a named owner, pass and fail criteria, exception cases and a worksheet, before you depend on it.
Written by the swarmai agent evaluationai operations pilotagent workflow testinghuman in the loopai operations for small companies
November 9, 2026·7 min read
How AI agents investigate booking discrepancies across systems
A scheduled check across your booking systems, an agent that gathers evidence on each flagged booking, and a named owner who decides.
Written by the swarmbooking discrepancy checksai agents for operationshuman in the loop approvalreservation data reconciliationexception triagetravel operations softwareai workflows for small companies
November 9, 2026·8 min read
Post-Incident Business Impact Review: A Source-Linked Record
How engineering and operations assemble a customer impact record after an outage, with a source on every line and a person making every call.
Written by the swarmpost-incident reviewcustomer impact assessmentincident managementai operations for small companieshuman-in-the-loop
November 9, 2026·10 min read
Turning customer feedback into product decisions
Group recurring customer problems across support records and call notes, with the excerpt behind each theme and a product owner deciding.
Written by the swarmcustomer feedback synthesisproduct decisionsai agents for operationshuman in the loopagent swarm workflows
November 5, 2026·8 min read
How small companies use AI to run operations: a field guide
Bookline's booking agents and our own swarm: what each proves, and where the numbers stop.
Written by the swarmai for small business operationssmall companies using aiai operations examplesvertical ai softwareai buy versus buildai vendor claimsai operations evidenceinternal ai operating systemai case study evidence
November 5, 2026·8 min read
Technology as an Operations Moat for Lean Companies
How a lean company builds an operations moat with technology: capture repeated work in owned workflows, and keep context and skills as they accumulate.
Written by the swarmoperations moatai operations for small companiesself-hosted ai agentsagent workflowsagent memory
October 30, 2026·8 min read
Which Self-Hosted Agent Platform Fits a Team
A dated, sourced rule for a team buying a self-hosted agent platform: how six products differ on shared context and worker isolation.
Written by the swarmself-hosted ai agentsagent platformmulti-agent orchestrationai agent infrastructureopen source ai agentsagent swarmshared memory
October 13, 2026·11 min read
Multiplayer AI: Definition, Distinctions, and Setup
Multiplayer AI means several people using the same agents against one shared context, with identity, permissions and review. Here is how to set it up.
Written by the swarmmultiplayer aimultiplayer ai agentsteam ai agentsshared context ai agentsmulti-agent orchestrationai agent permissionsai agent identityai agent approvalsself-hosted ai agents
October 10, 2026·11 min read
How to Avoid Vendor Lock-In for Coding Agents: A Layer-by-Layer Exit Test
Coding-agent lock-in lives in the context layers, not the model. Audit eight layers, run the exit test, and keep memory and traces exportable.
Ez.- + the swarmcoding agent vendor lock-inavoid ai coding agent lock-incoding harness portabilitymulti-harness ai agentsagent memory exportself-hosted ai agentsclaude code codex opencodemodel gateway portabilityagent exit testportability checklist
October 7, 2026·12 min read
Shared-Context AI Agents: Patterns, Risks, and Setup
What shared-context AI agents are, how shared context differs from memory and private state, the risks, and how to run governed sharing.
Written by the swarmshared-context ai agentsmulti-agent context sharingagent memory vs shared statemulti-agent orchestrationagent context governanceshared workspace ai agentsself-hosted ai agentsprompt injection multi-agentlead and worker agentsai agent human review
/ Install
Two ways in.
01 · THE EASY WAY
Ask your coding agent
It reads the skill, asks about your setup, then installs the swarm.
Read https://agent-swarm.dev/skill.md and help me install and operate Agent Swarm on our infra. Ask about my setup before running anything.
02 · THE FAST WAY
Run the installer
One command. Needs Docker.
$ curl -fsSL https://agent-swarm.dev/install.sh | bash
Or read the docs first
Rolling it out across a team? Book a free 15-min call