Scatter-gather agent
A scatter-gather agent fans a question out across the graph in parallel, then combines what comes back into one result.
How it uses the graph
It issues several retrievals at once, across different parts of the graph or different retriever types, and merges the responses. This suits questions whose answer is spread across many sources, where gathering everything at once is faster than walking it step by step.
Private preview
The agent SDK is in private preview. Email sales@virgo.fyi for early access; code examples land here as the API is finalized.
When to use it
Reach for scatter-gather on breadth-first questions, like assembling everything connected to a feature or an incident in a single pass.
Related
- Agents: the model behind this pattern.
- ReAct agent and Orchestrator agent.