Swarm Management is the Next Real Systems Problem in AI

Spawning a subagent is not swarm management - it is the beginning of the problem. OpenClaw shows what true swarm management looks like: durable session keys, push-based completion routing, and a disk-persisted registry that survives restarts. Hermes has excellent delegation, but children die when the parent is interrupted. 68% of production systems cap agents at 10 steps precisely because the infrastructure layer beneath them does not exist.