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by tarasyarema 6 days ago
Hi, the blog post was written assisted with our own swarm, based on the experiment.

Indeed we had the concept of workflows from the start (like n8n), but the point of the scripts is type safe executions that the agents can write, with access to APIs, MCPs, etc.

E.g. this PR from ~10 days ago https://github.com/desplega-ai/agent-swarm/pull/934 was going in this direction, offering a way to defined type safe connections to able to use more the scripts instead of adding MCPs or tools.

e.g. offering a way to do `ctx.api.gmail.searchEmail` coming from an OpenAPI spec.

The whole point of this blog is the "dumb" realisation of the following:

If you have an agent (say Claude Tag, or some other fancy Slack bot) that you keep asking the same things (e.g. check DataDog error and correlate PRs on a timeframe) and the agent does that process agentically, you are wasting tokens.

Now, if you give a way for the agents to write these scripts (code mode) the next time a task like that happens then essentially you just run that and you get easily 90% cost reduction in THAT process. Not globally, obviously.
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moberemk 6 days ago
No offence but, “if you find yourself doing the same thing over and over again write a script for it” isn’t exactly novel thinking in the software field…this was the same process when it was a human doing it, we just measure that in time instead of tokens
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tarasyarema 6 days ago
yes, 100%

but it's not that simple. the whole point of this is that if you have an AI system that is in charge of this, what you need is a way for it to build those deterministic software based parts, while maintaining the AI routing and reasoning.

with time, our internal swarm has been building those "internal" software that is tedious and boring to build, where it makes sense.

e.g. we also have a "pages" thing (like claude arifacts) that it uses to join scripts, html and other components to build dashboards for us

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