MAP
Split: Many independent items. One worker per item.
Combine: Collect every result and roll it up.
has runs Mega retro: the same 36 of 47 as solo, for $0.92 instead of $21.14
Shapes · how a swarm splits the work and puts it back together
A shape is two rules: how work is split and how results come back. Shapes chain one after another and nest up to three deep; a budget flows down so nesting can't multiply spend.
Split: Many independent items. One worker per item.
Combine: Collect every result and roll it up.
has runs Mega retro: the same 36 of 47 as solo, for $0.92 instead of $21.14
Split: Parts that depend on each other, planned as a dependency graph and built in parallel lanes.
Combine: Integrate in dependency order.
has runs Lead then split on a migration: 182 of 201 held-out, solo 70
Split: The same task, tried several different ways at once.
Combine: Keep the one that passes the gate best.
has runs Tournament tied solo's score at matched dollars, and finished sooner
Split: A Race repeated over generations. Each round starts from the last round's best.
Combine: Score every candidate, keep the best few, breed the next round from them, stop when gains flatten.
new New as a general shape: the hill-climb loop
Split: One question, many views. Seats chase different hypotheses or lenses and post evidence.
Combine: Weigh the evidence board into one verdict through Decisionz, with receipts for every claim.
has runs Council on big packs: tied the default path at about a fifteenth of the cost
Split: Opposed roles: a breaker and a builder.
Combine: Judged every round. The judge ranks what the breaker found; only findings above the bar get fixed, and it stops when nothing new clears the bar or at the round cap.
new New: judged every round, Jev ranks, bar 0.5, round cap
Split: One target, many varied actors: personas, roles or viewpoints.
Combine: Aggregate: merge duplicate findings and rank them by how many actors hit each one.
has runs Crowd product tests and usability runs, so far outside Squadz
The planner posts each choice as an assumption with a checkpoint. A failure asks one question: which assumption does this break?
Keeps what still holds, remembers dead ends, caps rewinds.
Out: The new codebase, behaviour proven equal on the old tests and the breaker's cases, plus a log of every rewind and why.
Why a swarm: Modules port in parallel once their dependencies are done, and a separate breaker catches drift a porter wouldn't look for. When the breaker finds a design-level problem, the run backtracks to the choice that caused it instead of patching around it.
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“Bump this dependency in all 200 services.”
MapRace“Move this service from Python to Rust.”
GraphRaceDuelDeliberate“Build this service from the spec.”
DeliberateGraphDuelSample“Own this project for the next two weeks.”
MapGraphRaceDeliberateMap“Map this 2-million-line codebase for new engineers.”
MapDeliberate“Rewrite our docs so every example works.”
Map“Ship the product in 20 languages.”
MapSample“Have 50 users try signup and onboarding.”
SampleMapSample“Find the best Squadz config, prompt or loadout.”
EvolveMap“Mine verified eval tasks from our merged fixes.”
MapDuel“Fix every open issue that's under a day of work.”
MapRace“Kill our flaky tests.”
MapDeliberate“Turn our 500 bug reports into failing tests.”
MapDeliberateMap“Cut our cloud and model bill.”
MapMapDeliberate“Make the top 30 hot paths faster.”
MapRace“Get this codebase properly tested.”
MapDuel“What went wrong across a month of agent sessions?”
MapMap“Tear this spec apart before we build it.”
SampleDeliberate“Show me the best possible design for this screen.”
EvolveSample“Stress-test our launch and pricing plan.”
SampleDeliberate“Should we move Tracez off Postgres?”
DeliberateRace“What's the state of the art in agent sandboxing?”
MapDeliberate“Audit this codebase for correctness, security and performance.”
MapDeliberateDuelMap“Harden this module until nothing breaks it.”
Duel“Find out which of our tests don't really test anything.”
MapDuel“Find and fix this nasty intermittent bug.”
DeliberateRaceRace“Clear our security findings backlog.”
MapDuel“What's the shortest list of fixes that removes the most risk?”
MapDeliberate“A new CVE just dropped. Are we affected?”
Map“Check every dependency update for something malicious.”
MapDeliberate“Find leaked secrets and risky config everywhere.”
Map“Write detection rules for these behaviours.”
MapDuel“We're down. What happened?”
DeliberateMap“Tell me when an agent goes off-policy.”
MapDeliberate“Collect our SOC 2 evidence.”
MapEvery job shows its shapes, its mode, and whether Squadz has run it. Use opens it in Start a swarm with its price.
The design names eighteen more ways to run a swarm and a hundred more jobs. Every one of them is built from the same seven shapes plus a mode or a policy, so they're drawn that way here. They are ideas, not jobs you can start yet.
Wrap any shape and keep buying rounds until quality stops rising per dollar.
EvolveAn Evolve around any job: each round starts from the best so far, and it stops when gains flatten.
One strong agent holds the input and farms the reading out to cheap helpers, then writes the answer itself.
MapA Map of cheap readers whose rollup is one strong writer.
Lives on a clock: a cursor over a source, a detector, a trigger with a lifetime budget, and any shape as the response.
Watch mode: any job, fired by an event, with a budget for each firing.
A finder makes claims, a checker must reproduce or refute them, and out-of-family judges settle what is left.
DuelDeliberateA Duel of finder and checker, then a Deliberate for what neither settles.
Several teams, each with its own paths, gate and budget slice, that can trade budget while they run.
GraphA Graph whose lanes each get their own slice of the budget.
Parallel bets, cut on live signals; the best is kept, merged and reviewed.
RaceA Race whose money moves to the attempts that are paying off.
Cheap models take every item first; the items they are unsure of escalate to a stronger model.
MapA Map whose unsure items climb the ladder to a stronger model, so spend follows difficulty.
Several labellers per item; agreement settles most, and disagreements queue for a stronger judge or a person.
MapDeliberateA Map where each item is a small Deliberate, and a split vote asks a person.
Every combination of conditions with repeats, running more where the result is still unsure.
MapSampleA Map over the conditions, each one a Sample of repeated runs.
A standing summary over a growing pile that rereads only what changed.
MapA standing Map that rereads only the parts whose inputs changed.
Build the shared skeleton first, then let area teams fill it in against a merge gate.
GraphMapA Graph for the spine, then a Map of areas, each held to the gate.
A cheap explorer maps the space and posts work; builders take it only as fast as they can finish it.
MapGraphAn exploring Map posts work items, and a Graph of builders takes them as it has room.
Attackers must prove each attack in a sandbox, defenders patch, and the attacks become the regression suite.
DuelA Duel whose breaker proves every attack in a sandbox before it counts.
Name hypotheses as avenues, close the ones evidence kills, reopen only on new evidence, credit the one that pays.
DeliberateA Deliberate whose seats are the avenues; every dead end is remembered.
Run the old and new system side by side on recorded or fuzzed inputs; every difference is work until it is explained or fixed.
DuelA Duel whose breaker replays inputs through both and posts each difference.
Split the work until the pieces are small; helpers hire helpers under a depth cap, and results fold back with receipts.
MapMapA Map inside a Map, up to three deep, with the budget flowing down so nesting never multiplies spend.
Evaluate, look at the failures, change the procedure, repeat, and stop on a held-out set the loop never trains on.
EvolveAn Evolve scored on a held-out set it never trains on.
A run that changes its plan midway when new evidence appears, with every change recorded.
Rewind and re-plan: the run goes back to the checkpoint and plans again with what it learned.
Find the recurring mistakes in a team's agent transcripts and fold them into a short list of themes with examples.
Mapone writerkeeps buying rounds while they payChecked by recall of planted defects
Answer a hard decision question from a large pack of sources, every claim quoting its source.
MapDuelone writerkeeps buying rounds while they payChecked by blind out-of-family judges, receipt audit
Map a large monorepo into a navigable guide: what each area does, who calls it, what is fragile.
MapstandingChecked by fresh agents do tasks faster with it than without
Compare hundreds of contracts against a standard and flag every deviation with the clause quoted.
MapDeliberateChecked by hand-checked sample of flags
Find places where an organisation's docs, prompts and memories disagree with each other.
MapDuelChecked by planted contradictions, owner accept rate
Read every ticket, review and call note from a quarter and rank the themes by revenue at stake.
Mapunsure items escalateChecked by sampled theme check against raw tickets
Read a full data room and produce the risk memo with page-level citations.
MapDuelone writerChecked by expert spot check of cited risks
Turn a year of meeting transcripts into a log of decisions, owners and reversals.
MapstandingChecked by participants confirm a sample
Distil a shelf of technical books into an index agents can consult during design work.
MapnestsChecked by held-out design tasks with and without it
Turn a long regulation into the concrete obligations a product must meet, mapped to features.
GraphDuelChecked by compliance reviewer sample
Read the patents in a field and cluster them by claim, holder and expiry.
MapDeliberateChecked by hand-checked cluster sample
Read every call in a sector for one quarter and extract guidance changes with quotes.
MapGraphChecked by quotes match transcripts verbatim
Reconcile out-of-date docs with what the code actually does and flag every mismatch.
MapDuelChecked by mismatches reproduce against the code
Keep a standing one-page brief across many projects that updates only where something changed.
MapstandingwatchChecked by owners mark overturned items
Screen, read and extract a field's findings into a table where each row quotes its paper.
GraphMapunsure items escalateChecked by receipts per row, sampled hand check
Break an open question into sub-questions, answer each, then attack the answer.
MapDuelnestsChecked by every claim cites a primary source
Size the market, map competitors and price the risks behind a single recommendation.
MapDuelChecked by sampled fact check, later outcome
Rebuild the experiment from the paper and say whether the claim holds.
GraphMapChecked by published numbers within tolerance
Use and document every competitor's product against a feature rubric.
MapDeliberateChecked by second reviewer agreement
Rank a backlog of research hypotheses by evidence, cost to test and expected value.
DeliberateDuelChecked by later experiment outcomes
Estimate the effect of a proposed rule from data, precedents and models, with ranges.
RaceDuelChecked by back-test on past rules
Find whether an invention or idea already exists anywhere in public record.
MapDeliberateChecked by expert confirms hits
Search for better constructions on problems with exact verifiers.
EvolveDeliberateChecked by exact verifier, no float tricks
Screen known compounds against a target using literature and public assay data.
GraphDeliberateChecked by expert review, later assays
Trace a product's suppliers several tiers deep and flag concentration risks.
MapnestsChecked by sampled supplier verification
Answer a question from scanned archives that no single reader could get through.
Mapone writerChecked by historian spot check
Explore a large survey from many angles and report only findings that survive correction for multiple tests.
MapDuelChecked by pre-registered held-out split
Count customers and spend segment by segment with sources for every input.
MapRaceChecked by triangulation against top-down estimates
Recreate a working program from its binary and documentation against hidden tests.
GraphMapChecked by hidden test suite
Move many repositories to a new library version inside a tamper-proof test runner.
Graphkeeps buying rounds while they payChecked by held-out tests agents never see
Turn a backlog into a dependency graph and build it in parallel with review.
GraphMapChecked by per-ticket acceptance tests
Rewrite a service in a new language and prove it behaves the same.
GraphDuelChecked by differential fuzzing against the original
Restructure a system and replay recorded production traffic to prove nothing changed.
GraphDuelChecked by differential replay
Raise meaningful coverage across a codebase, module by module.
MapGraphChecked by mutation score, not line count
Upgrade every outdated dependency across a fleet of services and fix what breaks.
GraphRaceChecked by CI plus canary
Add strict types to an untyped codebase without changing behaviour.
MapGraphChecked by type checker plus test suite
Fix accessibility issues across every screen of an application.
MapDuelChecked by automated audit plus screen-reader spot check
Extract every string, translate, and fix layouts that break in long languages.
GraphDeliberateChecked by native reviewer sample, layout snapshots
Carve a module out of a monolith behind a clean interface.
GraphDuelChecked by contract tests plus replay
Capture hand-built cloud infrastructure as code that plans to zero changes.
Mapkeeps buying rounds while they payChecked by plan shows no diff
Generate and hand-finish client libraries for one API in eight languages.
GraphChecked by shared conformance suite
Plan and execute a large schema change with zero data loss.
GraphDuelChecked by row-level checksums before and after
Build several competing prototypes of one feature and keep the best.
RaceEvolveChecked by user test or benchmark
Turn thousands of loose documents into a structured, linked site.
MapGraphChecked by link checker plus editor sample
Generate and playtest levels to a difficulty curve.
EvolveMapChecked by automated playtest agents
Add a language feature to a compiler against its conformance suite.
GraphRaceChecked by conformance tests
Investigate a live or replayed incident with parallel hypotheses and one commander.
DeliberateDuelChecked by known root cause on replayed incidents
Chase a slowdown with each hypothesis on its own machine and a registered prediction.
DeliberateMapChecked by effect vanishes under the control
Find and fix the root cause of every flaky test in a suite.
MapDeliberateChecked by thousand reruns stay green
Split the attack surface and require a working proof of concept for every finding.
DuelMapChecked by proof runs in a sandbox, planted-bug recall
Reconstruct what happened from terabytes of logs across services.
Mapone writerChecked by timeline matches known events
Find and apply savings across an account without breaking anything.
MapDuelChecked by bill before and after, error rates flat
Review every alert rule, tune or delete the noisy ones, and keep coverage.
MapDeliberateChecked by missed-incident back-test
Execute every runbook in a sandbox and fix the ones that no longer work.
MapDuelChecked by runbooks pass in staging
Group thousands of crash reports by root cause and fix the top ones.
MapRaceunsure items escalateChecked by crash rate after release
Compare every server's config against its intended state and explain each difference.
MapDuelChecked by drift report reproduces
Compete on optimisation problems with a hard deadline and scored submissions.
EvolveRaceChecked by official scorer on held-out seeds
Make a program faster through many small experiments, each on its own machine.
EvolveMapChecked by benchmark with a noise floor
Improve an agent's prompts and procedure against an eval set.
EvolveRaceChecked by held-out eval at stop
Search configurations of a GPU kernel or SQL query for the fastest correct one.
EvolveMapChecked by correctness check plus timing
Find better schedules or routes for a real operations problem.
EvolveDeliberateChecked by cost function on real data
Run a training sweep where agents read curves and decide what to try next.
Mapkeeps buying rounds while they payChecked by held-out validation score
Design and analyse pricing tests across segments.
MapDuelChecked by pre-registered analysis
Cut a slow build through caching, splitting and dependency cleanup.
DeliberateRaceChecked by cold and warm build times
Search placements under hard constraints with an exact checker.
Evolvekeeps buying rounds while they payChecked by design-rule checker
Attack a set of hard puzzles with verifiable answers.
RaceMapnestsChecked by exact answer check
Compare models and agent setups on a task set with enough repetitions to trust the result.
MapDeliberateChecked by validated grader on planted defects
Mine real tasks from release history where the reference passes and baselines fail.
GraphDuelChecked by reference passes, solver cannot game it
Find failure modes in a model under a written policy, each with a reproducible example.
DuelMapChecked by reproducible failures, reviewer sample
Check an automated grader against planted good and bad answers before trusting it.
DuelDeliberateChecked by planted answer recall
Read thousands of agent traces and classify where and why they failed.
Mapunsure items escalateChecked by second labeller agreement
Run the same jobs under every swarm shape to learn which shape suits which work.
MapwatchChecked by matched-dollar verdicts
Find stale, leaked or broken items in an eval suite and replace them.
MapDuelChecked by items pass reference, fail weak baseline
Assemble evidence for a system's safety argument, claim by claim.
MapDuelnestsChecked by reviewer accepts each claim
Remove components one at a time and measure what each was worth.
Mapkeeps buying rounds while they payChecked by pre-registered metric
Measure and improve a search or retrieval system query by query.
MapDeliberateChecked by labelled relevance sample
Label thousands of items with several labellers and route disagreements to experts.
DeliberateMapunsure items escalateChecked by agreement with expert sample
Generate, filter and verify data to train a small model on one skill.
MapGraphnestsChecked by trained student on a held-out eval
Resolve people, companies and places across many sources into one graph.
MapDeliberateChecked by hand-checked match sample
Merge hundreds of inconsistent spreadsheets into one clean table.
Mapkeeps buying rounds while they payChecked by row reconciliation totals
Collect a product or parts catalogue from many sites and normalise it.
MapGraphChecked by sampled field accuracy
Find and redact personal data across a large document set.
MapDuelunsure items escalateChecked by planted PII recall
Translate thousands of articles with terminology kept consistent.
GraphDeliberateChecked by bilingual reviewer sample
Infer the rules a dataset should satisfy and find every violation.
MapDuelChecked by owner confirms rules
Extract features from imagery or maps tile by tile.
MapDeliberateChecked by ground-truth sample
Build a validated Q&A set from a documentation corpus.
GraphDuelChecked by answers verified against source
Watch a project's benchmarks, investigate regressions, and propose fixes with before and after numbers.
DeliberatewatchChecked by back-test on history with planted reverts
Watch feeds for changes that matter and send a short digest.
Mapwatchunsure items escalateChecked by back-tested recall on a past window
Watch advisories, check reachability in your code, and open patches.
DuelwatchChecked by reachability proof per alert
Track competitors' docs, pricing and releases and explain what changed.
MapwatchstandingChecked by missed-change back-test
Re-run a shape bench whenever a new model or procedure ships.
MapwatchChecked by matched-dollar verdicts
Watch pipelines for silent drift and investigate when distributions move.
DeliberatewatchChecked by planted drift recall
Read new papers daily in a field and keep a living survey up to date.
MapwatchstandingChecked by expert marks misses
Read the engine's own run records and propose small, reversible procedure edits.
EvolvewatchChecked by matched-dollar before and after
Write a long handbook where every number traces to a source.
MapGraphnestsChecked by fact check on numbers
Write a full course with exercises that are tested and auto-graded.
GraphDuelChecked by exercises pass their own graders
Assemble a long response document against a scoring rubric.
GraphDuelChecked by rubric review by a second team
Write complete reference docs for a large API from its code and tests.
MapDuelChecked by examples run as written
Write a multi-chapter report where editors enforce terms and numbers across chapters.
MapDuelnestsChecked by cross-chapter consistency check
Write and test copy variants for many markets.
RaceDeliberateChecked by native reviewer and live test