# Agent Swarm **Entity class:** Multi-agent architecture **Domain:** Artificial intelligence / Agentic systems **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition An agent swarm is a coordinated population of AI agents that explores multiple subproblems, hypotheses, tools, or solution paths in parallel. ## Mechanism and significance Swarming increases search breadth, but productive coordination requires task decomposition, shared evidence, conflict resolution, and a verification layer that prevents many agents from merely multiplying the same error. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Scientific Intelligence and Recursive Improvement|Scientific Intelligence and Recursive Improvement]] - **Primary fields:** [[AI for Science]] · [[Scientific Acceleration]] · [[Machine Intelligence]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Open-Endedness]] · [[Evolutionary Search]] · [[Automated Hypothesis Generation]] · [[Automated Experimentation]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > Scientific progress has slowed as disciplines have fragmented into increasingly narrow specialties. AI can weave those separated pieces back together by combining world knowledge, digitized scientific data, simulation, robotic process automation, and agent swarms into an automated full scientific stack. > **— Adapted from Richard Socher**, *MOONSHOTS Live, October 2026* [[reminders/Scientific Acceleration/AI Can Reassemble the Fragmented Scientific World by Richard Socher|AI Can Reassemble the Fragmented Scientific World by Richard Socher]]