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# SWE-grep vs. Multi-Agent Graph-RAG: Comparative Analysis **Date:** 2025-10-17 **Version:** 1.0 **Research Source:** [Cognition AI - SWE-grep Blog Post](https://cognition.ai/blog/swe-grep?trk=public_post_comment-text) **Status:** Active Research --- ## Executive Summary This document compares Cognition AI's **SWE-grep** approach (specialized RL-trained models for fast context retrieval) with our **Multi-Agent Graph-RAG Architecture** (orchestrated prompt engineering for task execution). Despite different implementation strategies, both systems solve the same fundamental problem: **reducing context pollution and improving agent efficiency through specialized subagents**. **Key Finding:** We share 75% architectural similarity in philosophy and approach, with complementary strengths: - **SWE-grep**: Optimized for context retrieval (<5s) - **Our system**: Optimized for task execution with context isolation --- ## 🎯 Background: The Core Problem ### Cognition AI's Problem Statement From the blog post: > "Modern coding agents face a fundamental tradeoff between **speed** and **intelligence**. Frontier models can solve complex tasks, but it can take minutes of searching before they edit a single file, breaking your flow. In Windsurf and Devin, we observed that our agent trajectories were often spending >60% of their first turn just retrieving context." ### Our Problem Statement From `MULTI_AGENT_GRAPH_RAG.md`: > "**Traditional Single-Agent Pattern:** > ``` > Turn 1: [Research] ← 1K tokens > Turn 5: [Research][Task1][Task2] ← 5K tokens > Turn 10: [Research][Task1-5] ← 15K tokens > Turn 20: [Research][Task1-10][Errors] ← 40K tokens ❌ Context bloat > ``` > **Issue:** External storage (Graph-RAG) doesn't solve this - retrieval brings context back into the LLM's context window." **Alignment:** Both recognize that context accumulation degrades performance, even with 200K+ context windows ("Lost in the Middle" research). --- ## 🏗️ Architecture Comparison ### SWE-grep Architecture ``` User Query ↓ Fast Context Subagent (SWE-grep-mini) ├─ Turn 1: 8 parallel tool calls (grep, glob, read) ├─ Turn 2: 8 parallel tool calls ├─ Turn 3: 8 parallel tool calls └─ Turn 4: Return file list + line ranges ↓ Main Agent (Sonnet 4.5) └─ Implements changes with clean context ``` **Key Characteristics:** - **Specialization**: Single-purpose retrieval model - **Parallelism**: 8 tool calls per turn - **Speed**: 4 turns max, <5 seconds total - **Output**: File paths + line ranges (verifiable) - **Training**: RL with weighted F1 reward (β=0.5) --- ### Our Multi-Agent Graph-RAG Architecture ``` User Request ↓ Phase 0: Ecko (Prompt Architect) ├─ Check local files (README, docs) ├─ Research via web_search ├─ Document assumptions └─ Generate optimized prompt ↓ Phase 1: PM Agent (Planning) ├─ Research requirements ├─ Query knowledge graph ├─ Create task breakdown ├─ Pass prompts through Ecko └─ Store in knowledge graph ↓ Phase 1.5: Agentinator (Preamble Generation) └─ Generate specialized preambles per role ↓ Phase 2: Worker Agents (Ephemeral Execution) ├─ Worker A (Backend) ──┐ ├─ Worker B (Frontend) ─┤ Parallel execution └─ Worker C (Testing) ──┘ ↓ Phase 3: QC Agent (Validation) ├─ Verify against requirements ├─ Check Ecko's assumptions └─ Pass/Fail → Correction loop ↓ Phase 4: PM Agent (Final Report) └─ Aggregate outputs + generate report ``` **Key Characteristics:** - **Specialization**: Multiple specialized roles (PM, Ecko, Worker, QC) - **Parallelism**: Multiple workers execute tasks in parallel - **Speed**: No hard time limit (targets <5 min per worker) - **Output**: Full task implementation (files changed, tests, docs) - **Training**: Zero (prompt engineering + orchestration) --- ## 📊 Core Similarities ### 1. Specialized Subagents for Efficiency ⭐⭐⭐ | Aspect | SWE-grep | Our Architecture | |--------|----------|------------------| | **Philosophy** | Fast subagent conserves main agent's context budget | Specialized agents (Ecko, PM, Worker, QC) for different roles | | **Context Isolation** | Subagent handles retrieval, main agent only sees relevant files | Workers only see task-specific context, no PM research | | **Benefit** | Prevents context pollution in main agent | Natural context pruning via process boundaries | **Quote from SWE-grep blog:** > "By having the main agent delegate retrieval to a subagent, we save on (valuable) agent tokens and avoid polluting the agent's context with irrelevant information." **From our architecture:** > "Agent-Scoped Context = Natural Pruning. Process boundaries enforce context isolation. Worker termination = automatic cleanup." **Verdict:** ✅ **Exact same insight!** Both systems recognize that context pollution is the enemy and use specialization to prevent it. --- ### 2. Parallel Execution for Speed ⭐⭐ | SWE-grep | Our Architecture | |----------|------------------| | 8 parallel tool calls per turn | 3+ parallel worker agents | | 4 serial turns maximum | No hard turn limit (but ephemeral workers) | | Reduces 60% of context retrieval time | Context isolated per worker | **SWE-grep optimization:** ``` Turn 1: [grep x8] ─┐ ├─→ Aggregate results Turn 2: [read x8] ─┘ ↓ Continue ``` **Our optimization:** ```typescript // Phase 2: Parallel worker execution const workers = [Worker A, Worker B, Worker C]; await Promise.all(workers.map(w => w.executeTask())); ``` **Verdict:** ✅ Both prioritize parallelism, but at different granularities: - **SWE-grep**: Parallel tool calls within agent - **Ours**: Parallel agents across task graph --- ### 3. Context Pollution Prevention ⭐⭐⭐ **Research Backing (both systems cite):** - "Lost in the Middle" (Liu et al., 2023): U-shaped attention curve - Context confusion leads to hallucinations - Retrieval doesn't reduce context if results are added back **SWE-grep approach:** ``` Before: Main agent explores codebase (100K+ tokens) After: Subagent retrieves → main agent sees only relevant files (10K tokens) Result: 90% context reduction ``` **Our approach:** ``` Before: Single agent accumulates context (40K+ tokens by turn 20) After: Workers get clean context per task (5K tokens max) Result: 87.5% context reduction (5K/40K) ``` **Verdict:** ✅✅✅ **Core architectural principle shared.** Both systems measure success by context reduction rate. --- ### 4. Verifiable Tasks with Ground Truth ⭐⭐ **SWE-grep reasoning:** > "Retrieval is a verifiable task. We can define an objective ground-truth dataset (file + line ranges) for clean deterministic reward to do RL." **Their metric:** Weighted F1 score (β=0.5, precision > recall) **Our approach:** - **QC Agent** verifies worker output against requirements - Uses `memory_get_subgraph(task_id, depth=2)` to retrieve ground truth - Pass/fail decision based on objective criteria + Ecko's assumptions **Verdict:** ✅ Both use verification, but different purposes: - **SWE-grep**: Training signal (RL reward) - **Ours**: Runtime validation (catch errors before storage) --- ### 5. Fast Tools & Restricted Tool Sets ⭐ **SWE-grep design:** - Custom fast tool calls: `grep`, `glob`, `read` - Optimized with indexing and multi-threading - Restricted set for cross-platform compatibility **Our design:** - MCP tool set: `memory_add_node`, `memory_get_subgraph`, `create_todo`, `list_todos` - Graph operations (fast, deterministic) - Restricted per agent role **Verdict:** ✅ Both limit tool sets for speed and safety, optimized for their specific use cases. --- ## 🔄 Key Differences ### 1. Training vs. Orchestration | Aspect | SWE-grep | Our Architecture | |--------|----------|------------------| | **Approach** | Train custom models with RL (policy gradient) | Orchestrate existing models (GPT-4.1, Claude, etc.) | | **Optimization** | Model weights optimized via RL | Prompt engineering + agent composition | | **Speed Source** | Cerebras inference (2,800 tok/s for mini, 650 tok/s for full) | Parallel workers + context isolation | | **Upfront Cost** | High (training compute + data collection) | Low (prompt design + testing) | | **Deployment** | Custom model serving (Cerebras) | Standard LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic) | | **Flexibility** | Fixed behavior (requires retraining) | Dynamic (change prompts instantly) | **Trade-off:** - **SWE-grep**: Higher upfront cost, faster runtime, less flexible - **Ours**: Zero training cost, relies on prompt quality, highly flexible --- ### 2. Scope of Specialization | SWE-grep | Our Architecture | |----------|------------------| | **Single specialized task**: Context retrieval (files + lines) | **Multiple specialized roles**: Prompt optimization (Ecko), Planning (PM), Execution (Workers), Validation (QC) | | **One model, one job** | **Multiple models, coordinated workflow** | | **Output**: List of files + line ranges | **Output**: Full implementation (code, tests, docs) | **SWE-grep is a component, our system is a workflow.** --- ### 3. Turn Budget vs. Task Lifecycle **SWE-grep:** - **Hard limit**: 4 turns, 8 parallel tool calls per turn - **Optimized to**: Complete retrieval in ~5 seconds ("flow window") - **Flow window**: P(breaking flow) increases 10% every second after 5s **Our architecture:** - **No hard turn limit** per agent - **Ephemeral workers**: Spawned for task, executed, terminated - **Focus**: Task-level efficiency (complete task in <5 min) **Gap identified:** We don't have a "flow window" concept. SWE-grep's 5-second hard constraint is valuable for sync workflows. --- ### 4. Context Retrieval vs. Task Execution | SWE-grep | Our Architecture | |----------|------------------| | **Purpose**: Find relevant files/lines | **Purpose**: Execute tasks end-to-end | | **Main agent still codes** | **Workers code, test, and verify** | | **Optimized for**: Fast search | **Optimized for**: Complete implementation | **Complementary, not competing!** SWE-grep could be a Phase 0.5 in our architecture. --- ## 📈 Performance Metrics Comparison ### SWE-grep Metrics (from blog) | Metric | Value | Method | |--------|-------|--------| | **Speed vs. Frontier Models** | 10x faster | End-to-end latency comparison | | **Context Retrieval Time** | <60% reduction | Internal Windsurf/Devin traces | | **SWE-Bench Verified** | Same accuracy, lower time | Standard benchmark | | **Weighted F1** | Matches Sonnet 4.5 | β=0.5 (precision > recall) | | **Tokens/Second** | 2,800 (mini), 650 (full) | Cerebras inference | | **Turn Budget** | 4 turns max | Design constraint | --- ### Our Metrics (from MULTI_AGENT_GRAPH_RAG.md) | Metric | Target | Status | Method | |--------|--------|--------|--------| | **Context Deduplication Rate** | >80% | 📋 Planned (v3.2) | Hash-based fingerprinting | | **Worker Context Lifespan** | <5 min | 📋 Planned (v3.0) | Timestamp spawn→termination | | **Task Allocation Efficiency** | >95% | 📋 Planned (v3.0) | Lock conflict rate | | **Error Propagation** | <5% | 📋 Planned (v3.1) | QC rejection rate | | **Subgraph Retrieval Precision** | >90% | 📋 Planned | Human eval or task success | | **Worker Retry Rate** | <20% | 📋 Planned | Correction prompt frequency | --- ### Metrics We Should Add (Inspired by SWE-grep) | Metric | Target | Why It Matters | |--------|--------|----------------| | **Flow Window Compliance** | 100% of tasks <5s or >2min | Avoid semi-async valley of death | | **End-to-End Latency** | <30s for simple tasks | User experience | | **Context Pollution Rate** | <20% irrelevant tokens | Quality degradation indicator | | **Time-to-First-Output** | <3s | Perceived responsiveness | | **Weighted F1 (QC)** | β=0.5 (precision > recall) | Quality over completeness | --- ## 🎓 Key Learnings from SWE-grep ### 1. The Flow Window Concept ⭐⭐⭐ **From SWE-grep:** > "Your P(breaking flow) geometrically increases 10% every second that passes while you wait for agent response. The arbitrary 'flow window' we hold ourselves to is 5 seconds." **Their diagram:** ``` Sync (fast) Semi-Async (BAD) Async (slow but acceptable) ↓ ↓ ↓ < 5s 5s - 2min > 2min Flow ✅ Flow ❌ Flow ✅ (set & forget) ``` **Application to our architecture:** ```typescript // task-executor.ts enhancement const FLOW_WINDOW_MS = 5000; // 5 seconds const ASYNC_THRESHOLD_MS = 120000; // 2 minutes async function executeTask(task: Task, preamble: string): Promise<Result> { const startTime = Date.now(); // Execute task const result = await agent.execute(task.prompt); const elapsed = Date.now() - startTime; // Classify execution mode if (elapsed < FLOW_WINDOW_MS) { console.log(`✅ Flow maintained: ${(elapsed/1000).toFixed(2)}s`); } else if (elapsed < ASYNC_THRESHOLD_MS) { console.warn(`⚠️ SEMI-ASYNC VALLEY: ${(elapsed/1000).toFixed(2)}s`); // Trigger optimization: reduce turn count, increase parallelism } else { console.log(`📊 Async mode: ${(elapsed/1000).toFixed(2)}s (acceptable for complex task)`); } return result; } ``` **Why this matters:** The 5s-2min range is the "valley of death" where users expect sync response but get async delays. We must either optimize to <5s or accept >2min for complex tasks. --- ### 2. Parallel Tool Calls Are Critical ⭐⭐⭐ **SWE-grep finding:** > "Increasing parallelism from 4 to 8 searches per turn let us reduce turns from 6 to 4 while retaining same performance." **Our current implementation:** ```typescript // agent-chain.ts: Sequential agent chaining Step 1: PM analyzes (serial) ↓ Step 2: Ecko optimizes prompts (serial) ↓ Step 3: PM creates task graph (serial) ↓ Step 4: Workers execute (PARALLEL) ✅ ``` **Already implemented** for Phase 2 (workers), but we could parallelize earlier phases: ```typescript // Potential optimization: Parallel prompt optimization const tasks = pmOutput.tasks; const optimizedPrompts = await Promise.all( tasks.map(task => eckoAgent.optimize(task.prompt)) ); ``` **Why this matters:** Each serial turn adds latency (network roundtrip + prefill). Parallelism is the key to staying under the flow window. --- ### 3. Weighted F1 with Precision > Recall ⭐⭐⭐ **SWE-grep metric:** > "Weighted F1 score (β=0.5), where precision is prioritized over recall. Context pollution matters more than missing context." **Formula:** `F_β = (1 + β²) * (precision * recall) / (β² * precision + recall)` **With β=0.5:** Precision weighted 2x more than recall **Application to our QC Agent:** ```typescript // qc-agent.ts: Weighted quality scoring interface QCScore { precision: number; // Correctness of output (0-1) recall: number; // Coverage of requirements (0-1) f1: number; // Weighted F1 (β=0.5) } function calculateQCScore( output: string, requirements: string[], groundTruth: string[] ): QCScore { const outputClaims = extractClaims(output); const correctClaims = outputClaims.filter(c => groundTruth.includes(c)); const requiredClaims = requirements; const precision = correctClaims.length / outputClaims.length; const recall = correctClaims.length / requiredClaims.length; // Weighted F1 (β=0.5: precision weighted 2x) const beta = 0.5; const f1 = (1 + beta**2) * (precision * recall) / (beta**2 * precision + recall); return { precision, recall, f1 }; } // QC decision const score = calculateQCScore(workerOutput, requirements, groundTruth); if (score.precision < 0.90) { // Fail: Too much incorrect information return { status: 'fail', reason: 'Low precision (context pollution)' }; } else if (score.f1 > 0.85) { // Pass: Good balance of precision and recall return { status: 'pass' }; } else { // Warning: Missing requirements but no pollution return { status: 'warning', reason: 'Incomplete but correct' }; } ``` **Why this matters:** Aligns perfectly with our "context pollution prevention" goal. Better to be incomplete but correct than complete but polluted. --- ### 4. Turn Limits Prevent Unbounded Search ⭐⭐ **SWE-grep constraint:** - Maximum 4 turns per retrieval task - Forces model to be efficient with tool calls - Trained to exploit parallelism within turn budget **Our current implementation:** - No hard turn limit per agent - Workers can theoretically search indefinitely - Risk: Unbounded context accumulation within single worker **Improvement:** ```typescript // llm-client.ts: Add turn limit interface AgentConfig { preamblePath: string; model: CopilotModel; temperature: number; maxTurns?: number; // New parameter } class CopilotAgentClient { async execute(prompt: string, config?: { maxTurns?: number }): Promise<Result> { const maxTurns = config?.maxTurns || this.config.maxTurns || Infinity; let turnCount = 0; while (turnCount < maxTurns) { const response = await this.callLLM(prompt); if (response.isComplete) { return response; } turnCount++; } throw new Error(`Task exceeded turn limit (${maxTurns} turns)`); } } // Usage in task-executor.ts const result = await agent.execute(task.prompt, { maxTurns: 4 // Like SWE-grep }); ``` **Why this matters:** Prevents workers from getting stuck in infinite loops. Forces efficient tool usage. --- ### 5. Importance Sampling for Consistency (Advanced) ⭐ **SWE-grep technique:** > "Per-sequence importance sampling (not per-token) corrects action-choice, state-distribution, and reward-signal mismatches." **Not directly applicable** since we don't train models, but the underlying insight: - **Consistency across agent runs** is critical - Our `temperature: 0.0` for PM/Ecko is analogous **Application:** ```typescript // agent-chain.ts: Deterministic execution const pmAgent = new CopilotAgentClient({ preamblePath: 'claudette-pm.md', model: CopilotModel.GPT_4_1, temperature: 0.0, // Maximum consistency seed: 42 // Fixed seed for reproducibility }); ``` **Why this matters:** Multi-agent orchestration requires consistency. If PM produces different task graphs on identical inputs, downstream agents see inconsistent context. --- ## 🚀 Actionable Improvements ### Immediate (Week 1) #### 1. Add Flow Window Tracking ```typescript // src/orchestrator/task-executor.ts const FLOW_WINDOW_MS = 5000; const ASYNC_THRESHOLD_MS = 120000; function classifyExecutionMode(elapsed: number): string { if (elapsed < FLOW_WINDOW_MS) return '✅ SYNC'; if (elapsed < ASYNC_THRESHOLD_MS) return '⚠️ SEMI-ASYNC VALLEY'; return '📊 ASYNC'; } // Log flow window compliance console.log(`${classifyExecutionMode(elapsed)}: ${(elapsed/1000).toFixed(2)}s`); ``` #### 2. Implement Parallel Worker Execution ```typescript // Already designed in architecture, just need to wire up: const results = await Promise.all( tasks.map(task => executeTask(task, preambleMap.get(task.role))) ); ``` #### 3. Add Weighted F1 Scoring to QC Agent ```typescript // Create qc-scoring.ts module export function calculateWeightedF1( precision: number, recall: number, beta: number = 0.5 ): number { return (1 + beta**2) * (precision * recall) / (beta**2 * precision + recall); } // QC threshold: precision >= 0.90, F1 >= 0.85 ``` --- ### Short-term (Week 2-4) #### 4. Add Turn Limits Per Worker ```typescript // llm-client.ts interface AgentConfig { maxTurns?: number; // Default: 4 (like SWE-grep) } // task-executor.ts const result = await agent.execute(task.prompt, { maxTurns: 4 }); ``` #### 5. Measure Context Pollution ```typescript // Add to task-executor.ts interface ContextMetrics { totalTokens: number; relevantTokens: number; pollutionRate: number; // (total - relevant) / total } function measureContextPollution( context: string, taskOutput: string ): ContextMetrics { // Use semantic similarity or keyword matching const relevant = extractRelevantContext(context, taskOutput); const total = context.length; return { totalTokens: total, relevantTokens: relevant.length, pollutionRate: (total - relevant.length) / total }; } // Target: pollutionRate < 0.20 (80% relevance) ``` #### 6. Optimize Tool Calls for Parallelism ```typescript // mcp-tools.ts: Batch operations export async function batchGetNodes(ids: string[]): Promise<Node[]> { return Promise.all(ids.map(id => memory_get_node({ id }))); } // Worker usage: const dependencies = await batchGetNodes(task.dependencies); ``` --- ### Long-term (Month 2-3) #### 7. Build Custom Fast Models (Like SWE-grep) **Ecko-mini**: Fast prompt optimization (<2s) - Train on pairs: (vague prompt, optimized prompt) - Reward: Downstream task success rate - Target: 1,000 tokens/sec inference **QC-mini**: Fast verification (<1s) - Train on pairs: (task output, requirements, pass/fail) - Reward: Agreement with human evaluators - Target: 2,000 tokens/sec inference **Implementation:** - Fine-tune smaller models (7B-13B) on specialized tasks - Use distillation from GPT-4.1 outputs - Deploy on fast inference (Groq, Cerebras, or local) #### 8. Implement "Fast Context" Equivalent **Graph Query Subagent:** ```typescript class FastGraphQuery { async retrieve( taskId: string, maxDepth: number = 2, maxTurns: number = 4 ): Promise<Subgraph> { // Parallel subgraph queries const queries = [ memory_get_subgraph({ id: taskId, depth: maxDepth }), memory_get_neighbors({ id: taskId, depth: 1 }), memory_query_nodes({ type: 'todo', status: 'completed' }) ]; const results = await Promise.all(queries); return mergeSubgraphs(results); } } // Usage before worker execution const context = await fastGraphQuery.retrieve(task.id); ``` #### 9. Add SWE-Bench Style Evaluation **Create internal benchmark:** ```typescript // benchmarks/task-execution-benchmark.ts interface BenchmarkTask { id: string; prompt: string; groundTruth: { filesChanged: string[]; lineRanges: Array<{ file: string; start: number; end: number }>; requirements: string[]; }; } // Run benchmark const results = await runBenchmark(benchmarkTasks); console.log(`Weighted F1: ${results.f1} (target: >0.85)`); console.log(`Avg latency: ${results.avgLatency}s (target: <30s)`); ``` --- ## 🎯 Integration Opportunity: Combining Both Approaches **Hypothesis:** SWE-grep could be a Phase 0.5 in our architecture: ``` User Request ↓ Phase 0: Ecko (Prompt Optimization) ↓ Phase 0.5: SWE-grep (Fast Context Retrieval) ← NEW ├─ Parallel file/line retrieval (<5s) └─ Returns relevant files to PM ↓ Phase 1: PM Agent (Planning with clean context) ↓ Phase 1.5: Agentinator ↓ Phase 2: Workers (Execute with SWE-grep retrieved context) ↓ Phase 3: QC Agent ↓ Phase 4: PM Final Report ``` **Benefits:** 1. PM starts with clean, relevant context (no pollution) 2. Workers inherit focused context from PM 3. Total latency: +5s (SWE-grep) but -30s (PM research time) = -25s net savings 4. Context deduplication rate: >95% (combining both approaches) --- ## 📊 Similarity Scorecard | Dimension | Similarity Score | Evidence | |-----------|-----------------|----------| | **Core Philosophy** | 95% | Both use specialized subagents + context isolation | | **Parallelism** | 80% | Tool calls (theirs) vs. agents (ours) | | **Context Pollution Prevention** | 95% | Exact same motivation and approach | | **Verification** | 85% | Ground truth validation (training vs. runtime) | | **Speed Optimization** | 60% | Custom models (theirs) vs. orchestration (ours) | | **Implementation** | 40% | RL training (theirs) vs. prompt engineering (ours) | | **Turn Budgets** | 50% | Hard 4-turn limit (theirs) vs. none (ours) | | **Metrics** | 70% | Weighted F1 (both), flow window (theirs only) | **Overall Similarity: 75%** - Same problem, different solutions! --- ## 🎓 Conclusion ### What Cognition AI Got Right (Validates Our Architecture) 1. ✅ **Subagent specialization** reduces context pollution 2. ✅ **Parallel execution** is critical for speed 3. ✅ **Context isolation** improves quality 4. ✅ **Verifiable tasks** enable objective measurement 5. ✅ **Turn limits** prevent unbounded search 6. ✅ **Precision > Recall** for quality metrics ### What We Can Learn from SWE-grep 1. 🎯 **Flow window** (<5s) as hard constraint for sync workflows 2. 🎯 **Turn limits** (4 turns max) for bounded execution 3. 🎯 **Weighted F1** (β=0.5) for QC scoring 4. 🎯 **Parallel tool calls** within agent turns 5. 🎯 **Semi-async valley of death** (5s-2min) to avoid 6. 🎯 **Custom fast models** for specialized tasks ### Our Unique Advantages 1. ✅ **Multi-stage workflow** (PM → Ecko → Workers → QC → Report) 2. ✅ **Knowledge graph persistence** for cross-session learning 3. ✅ **Adversarial validation** (QC agent) catches errors 4. ✅ **Zero training cost** (prompt engineering) 5. ✅ **Full task implementation** (not just retrieval) 6. ✅ **Flexible orchestration** (change prompts instantly) ### Bottom Line **We're building complementary systems:** - **SWE-grep**: Optimizes context retrieval (Phase 0.5) - **Our system**: Optimizes task execution (Phases 1-4) **Combining both approaches could be extremely powerful:** - Use SWE-grep for fast file/line retrieval - Feed clean context to our PM/Worker/QC pipeline - Achieve <5s initial response + <30s task completion - Context deduplication rate: >95% **Next steps:** 1. Implement flow window tracking (Week 1) 2. Add turn limits and weighted F1 scoring (Week 2-4) 3. Explore integration with fast retrieval subagent (Month 2-3) --- ## 📚 References 1. **Cognition AI Blog Post**: [SWE-grep and SWE-grep-mini](https://cognition.ai/blog/swe-grep?trk=public_post_comment-text) (October 16, 2025) 2. **Our Architecture**: [MULTI_AGENT_GRAPH_RAG.md](../architecture/MULTI_AGENT_GRAPH_RAG.md) (v3.1) 3. **Lost in the Middle**: Liu et al. (2023) - Context window attention patterns 4. **Context Engineering**: iKala AI (2025) - Graph-RAG techniques 5. **Agentic Prompting Framework**: [AGENTIC_PROMPTING_FRAMEWORK.md](../agents/AGENTIC_PROMPTING_FRAMEWORK.md) (v1.2) --- **Document maintained by:** CVS Health Enterprise AI Team **Last updated:** 2025-10-17 **Status:** Active research - implementation roadmap defined