What is Swarm?
Swarm — The coordination layer for many agents acting as one, where collective behavior emerges from local rules rather than central control.
Swarm is the primitive that answers how do many agents act as a group? When work is split across hundreds of agents, the outcome comes from how they coordinate, not from any single one.
It is the layer where scale becomes a strategy. A swarm trades central control for resilience and parallelism, and the design problem moves to the rules each agent follows locally.
Where swarm sits in the stack
In the four-layer architecture of the agentic web, swarm is a Cross-cutting concept — it applies across every layer of the stack. See the thesis for how the layers compound.
Swarm in the portfolio
58 positions in the Semantic Substrate portfolio carry the Swarm primitive — 8 available individually, 50 held as a coordinated set. Explore the Swarm cluster →
Quick answers
- What is Swarm in agentic systems?
- The coordination layer for many agents acting as one, where collective behavior emerges from local rules rather than central control.
- Where does Swarm sit in the agentic stack?
- Swarm sits at the Cross-cutting layer — it applies across every layer of the stack.
- How many Swarm domain positions exist in the Semantic Substrate portfolio?
- 58 positions carry the Swarm primitive — 8 available individually, the rest held as a coordinated set.