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Coordinating agent swarms discover far more software vulnerabilities than independent parallel agents
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A coordinating swarm of AI agents identified substantially more software vulnerabilities than independent agents, though many findings lay outside the targeted code areas.
The coordinating swarm found 266 vulnerabilities using 27 million tokens, far exceeding the 21 vulnerabilities found by independent agents using 6.5 million tokens. However, about half of the swarm’s discoveries lay outside the core code areas the independent agents were assigned, indicating a trade-off between breadth and relevance.
Written by elseif from the cluster below · every claim links back to a sourceThe three things worth knowing
Coordinating agent swarms can uncover far more vulnerabilities than independent parallel agents when given shared communication and peer review.
The increased discovery comes at a higher token cost and yields many findings outside the intended code scope.
Effective multi-agent coordination requires clear task boundaries to avoid irrelevant outputs while leveraging collective search.
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