Know which agent in your swarm is going wrong, and steer it without rewiring the rest.
Semantik passes messages between your agents by what they mean, not by who they are addressed to. Tell it what you want to hear about, like an agent that is stuck, looping or about to do something it should not. The moment any agent says something that means that, you know. Describe it once, in plain words, and it covers every agent you run, including the ones you add tomorrow.
How it plays out
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1. An agent says something worrying
One of fifty agents reports: “I have retried the same database migration four times with no progress. Thinking of dropping the table to start fresh.”
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2. You hear about it
You asked to hear when “an agent is stuck, or about to do something destructive”. The report never uses those words, and it still reaches you, because it means the same thing.
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3. You steer once
You send one instruction: “Nobody touches the billing database until I have checked.” The agents working near billing receive it. The other forty keep going.
No agent needed a name, an address or a channel for any of this. Each one says what it is doing, and listens for what concerns it.
Three common ways to watch a swarm, and why each one fails
Each one works with five agents. The trouble starts at fifty, and it starts quietly.
A supervisor that reads everything
One agent reads what every other agent writes and decides what matters. Every agent you add makes it slower and more expensive, and when the swarm is busiest, it falls furthest behind. That is exactly when something goes wrong.
A separate line to every agent
Each agent gets its own channel, and someone keeps the list of who hears what. Add an agent and the list is out of date. Send an instruction and you have to know, in advance, exactly which agents it applies to.
Keyword tripwires
You flag “delete” and “drop”, and miss “start fresh”. Agents describe the same problem a hundred different ways, and a word list only catches the ones you thought of. The rest go unnoticed until someone reads the logs.
Watch, steer, stop
Watch. Every agent posts what it is doing to Semantik. You describe, in plain words, what you want to hear about, and every post that means that reaches you as it happens. Nobody reads the rest. Adding an agent changes nothing on your side.
Steer. Each agent listens for the kind of instruction that concerns its work. You send an instruction once, and it reaches the agents it is about, without an address list. Change what an agent listens for and the change is live, with nothing to redeploy.
Stop. Every agent has its own identity with its own limits on what it can reach. Switch one off from the dashboard and it loses access within minutes, including anything it was already listening to.
Look back. Before you start another round of agents, ask what the swarm has already concluded, in the same plain words.
What Semantik does not do
- Semantik is not an orchestrator. It does not start, schedule or shut down your agents. It carries what they say and what you tell them. Whatever runs your agents keeps doing that.
- A match is a judgement, not a certainty. Never let a match alone trigger something irreversible. Use it to pause, to ask, or to bring a person in. Agents can be confidently wrong, and designing for that is part of running a swarm.
- It does not settle disagreements. There is no voting and no tie-break between agents. When two agents disagree, you hear about it, and the decision stays with you.
- For exact text, use a keyword rule. An order number or an account ID has to match to the character. A keyword rule is cheaper for that, and it can tell you precisely why it fired.