Swarm Systems

What happens when multiple AI agents try to work together. Coordination protocols, collective behaviour, and the overhead nobody warns you about.

Guides and explainers

Detailed guides and practical technical analysis.

Agent Marketplaces Need Abuse Screens, Not Escrow
Swarm Intelligence for Builders: When Distributed Agents Actually Help
When AI Agent Swarms Actually Help
Multi-Agent Communication Protocols: A Builder's Guide

Latest analysis

Recent research, benchmark reviews and technical updates.

Multi-Agent Finance Workflows Need Cost Curves, Not More Agents
Agent Marketplaces Need Abuse Screens, Not Escrow
Multi-Agent Systems Need Specs Before More Agents
SMAC-Talk Shows Agent Chat Is Not Coordination

Practical tools

Templates for budgets and project planning

BoredTools offers practical spreadsheets for budgets, freelance work and small projects.

Browse templates Free budget tracker

Black and white close-up of rough concrete wall texture showing friction and raw surface detail

Signal Signals Evidence-first framing

When Agents Meet Reality: The Friction Nobody Planned For

Lab benchmarks show multi-agent systems coordinating well. Deploy them in messy reality and three kinds of friction emerge that no architecture diagram accounted for.