Glossary term
Glossary term
Agentic Systems
Multi-agent coordination pattern using lightweight handoffs between agents.
OpenAI's Swarm educational framework (open-source) demonstrates a customer-service system where a triage agent hands off to specialist agents (billing, technical, account) using context-preserving handoff() calls.
A financial-services firm prototypes a Swarm-based compliance workflow: intake agent collects trade details, rules agent checks regulatory constraints, reporting agent generates filings - each as a lightweight swarm agent.
Swarm's patterns are used in academic research on emergent multi-agent behavior - teams at Stanford use Swarm-like architectures to study how specialisation and handoffs affect quality vs. cost trade-offs.