Context-Optimized AgentSwarm

Multi-agent orchestration on minimum context use
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Context-Optimized AgentSwarm

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A Python GPT-5.5 orchestration framework that fans work out to 35 scoped sub-agents — direct, council, research and security — then compresses findings upward into one synthesized decision, cutting input tokens ~74%.

Project context05

Problem

Large multi-agent systems can waste context and produce noisy consensus. The challenge is assigning work to enough agents to get coverage while keeping total token use, synthesis complexity, and decision quality under control.

Solution

Context-Optimized AgentSwarm routes tasks across direct, council, research, and security agents, allocates budgets, audits context use, compresses findings hierarchically, and synthesizes one decision.

Challenges

The hard parts are choosing the right agent topology, preventing context bloat, compressing without losing dissent, and making budget usage measurable enough to improve over time.

Innovation

The framework focuses on context economics as an architecture constraint. It treats token budget, agent role, compression path, and final synthesis as explicit design variables.

Domain expertise

This demonstrates Stefan's expertise in swarm orchestration, context engineering, GPT-5.5-style routing experiments, budget-aware agents, council patterns, and security-review subteams.

Case study evidence11

Outcomes

  • Shows how large agent teams can be organized without flooding every role with every token.
  • Makes quality, cost, role selection, and dissent measurable enough to tune over repeated runs.
  • Creates a practical reference for council, research, security, and synthesis topologies.

Architecture decisions

  • Context router and budget allocator decide what each sub-agent is allowed to see.
  • Hierarchical compression preserves signal while limiting final synthesis load.
  • Council and security teams create deliberate pressure-test paths before a final answer is accepted.

Domain expertise signals

Context engineeringAgent swarmsCouncil patternsBudget routingSecurity review
Technical deep dive09

Context-Optimized AgentSwarm is about context economics. It asks how many agents should work, what each one should see, how findings should be compressed, and how final synthesis should preserve dissent.

Role topology

Direct, council, research, and security agents have different jobs. Explicit topology prevents every agent from becoming a generic reviewer with the same bloated prompt.

Budget control

Token budget is treated as an architectural constraint. Allocating and auditing context by role makes cost, latency, and quality tradeoffs visible.

Compression path

Hierarchical compression keeps child-agent findings useful without passing every raw token upward. The challenge is preserving minority concerns and evidence while reducing context.

Review coverage

Security and council agents create structured adversarial pressure. That makes the final answer more robust than a majority-vote consensus.

What this proves

  • Context router and budget allocator
  • Council, research, and security subteams
  • Hierarchical compression before synthesis
  • Quality and cost metrics tracked together
35sub-agents
7parent groups
74%fewer input tokens
69%lower est. cost
4review councils
0.91quality score
Technology stack02
Python

Python

Fits research orchestration well: quick agent definitions, clear data classes, and simple mock/live runtime switching.

OpenAI

OpenAI

The Responses API gives the swarm structured outputs, model control, and consistent accounting for token-budget experiments.

Tools implemented09

Context router

Classifies the task and decides what each sub-agent is allowed to see.

Budget allocator

Caps input and output tokens by role so the swarm is not brute-forcing context.

Context auditor

Removes duplicate context and sensitive material before packets are sent.

Direct sub-agents

Split architecture, implementation, metrics, memory, and output-contract work into focused lanes.

Council agents

Pressure-test factuality, reasoning, product fit, and quality from multiple angles.

Research agents

Evaluate evidence, tradeoffs, cost, latency, and reliability in parallel.

Security agents

Probe injection, leakage, permissions, sensitive operations, and hallucination exposure.

Hierarchical compression

Compresses child findings upward so the final synthesis sees the signal, not every token.

Final synthesis agent

Produces the answer and leaves a decision-memory record for the next run.

Stefan Creadore · @Eldergenixproduction agent systems mapped end to end