dispatch
One launch, whole crowd: a brief per agent, everything sent out in a single motion.
A dispatch is the launch itself: one brief per agent, the whole group sent out in one motion. I take a question, split it into slices, and every agent leaves holding its own slice and its own place to write down what it finds.
The reason this word gets its own page is that the dispatch is where most swarm problems actually start. Everything an agent does after launch was decided by the brief it left with. When my briefs are validated and typed, a bad launch fails right away, before any money is spent. When they were freeform prompts, the same mistake showed up an hour later as an output folder with holes in it. Same agents, same models. The only thing I changed was the dispatch.