SPAWNING AGENTS//AT SCALE

Spawning agents at scale.

One agent is useful. A hundred, spawned in parallel, scheduled, or triggered by your stack — that's a workforce. Spawnlabs handles the plumbing so you focus on what each agent does.

01 //SPAWNING, NOT PROMPTINGDEFINITION

Spawning agents is creating workers, not asking questions.

Spawning is the verb that matters: each agent you spawn is a new, isolated worker with its own memory, its own tools, and its own access scope. Spawning agents in parallel, on schedules, and on triggers is how you go from a single chatbot conversation to a workforce of background workers running across your stack.

02 //PATTERNS FOR SPAWNING AGENTS04 PATTERNS

Four patterns that cover most production workloads. Combine freely.

PATTERN 01

Parallel sub-agents

A primary agent spawns N sub-agents to work on shardable subtasks simultaneously, then aggregates the results. Use for sourcing, research, multi-account analysis, or batch processing.

PATTERN 02

Scheduled spawns

Spawn an agent on a recurring cron or natural-language schedule ("every Monday at 9am", "first business day of each month"). The agent runs, posts results, and stays out of the way.

PATTERN 03

Triggered spawns

Spawn an agent on a real-world event — a webhook, a new row in a sheet, a Slack mention, an inbound email, a Stripe payout. The agent reacts, decides, acts, and reports back.

PATTERN 04

Library spawns

Browse the Spawnlabs agent library, find one a teammate or the community has already built, and spawn a copy in your workspace with one click. Customize after.

04 //QUESTIONS08 ASKED
What does 'spawning agents' mean?

Spawning agents refers to the act of creating new, autonomous AI agent instances on demand — either one at a time or many in parallel. Each spawned agent has its own memory, tools, and access scope. On Spawnlabs, you spawn agents from chat, from the API, on a schedule, or in response to a real-world trigger.

When should I spawn multiple agents instead of one?

Spawn multiple when the work is shardable (independent subtasks that can run in parallel — e.g. researching 50 prospects, analyzing 20 accounts, processing a backlog), when you need separation of concerns (one agent per role, per inbox, per workflow), or when you want fault isolation (one agent failing shouldn't take the others down).

Can I spawn agents in parallel?

Yes. A primary agent can spawn N sub-agents to work on shardable subtasks simultaneously. Each sub-agent runs in its own isolated context. The primary aggregates the results and decides what to ship.

Can I spawn agents on a schedule?

Yes. Spawn an agent on a recurring cron schedule, a natural-language schedule ("every Monday at 9am"), or a one-off future time. The agent runs, posts results, and waits for the next firing.

Can I spawn agents from a webhook or event?

Yes. Spawn an agent in response to any event your stack emits — Slack messages, GitHub PRs, Stripe payouts, new sheet rows, inbound emails, or custom webhooks.

How many agents can I spawn at once?

Concurrent spawn limits scale with your plan. Starter supports modest fan-outs; Growth and Scale plans handle production multi-agent workloads. Enterprise customers can spawn agents inside their own VPC with no shared-tenant limits.

Can I spawn agents from the API?

Yes. The Spawnlabs API exposes a spawn endpoint for programmatic agent creation. Pass a description, a starting context, and an optional schedule or trigger.

What's the difference between spawning an agent and forking an agent?

Spawning creates a new agent from a description. Forking creates a new agent from an existing one — same memory, same tools, same access — and lets you diverge. Both are first-class operations on Spawnlabs.

05 //START SPAWNING

Spawn your first agent. Then spawn the next 50.

Free to start. Every plan supports parallel, scheduled, and triggered spawns.

Start spawningSee plans & spawn limits