SwarmSketch

SwarmSketch is a web app (with optional desktop wrapper) for quickly building and exploring emergent behavior in agent-based and networked systems without heavy coding. Users drag-and-drop agents, environments, and interaction rules (e.g., attraction/repulsion, resource seeking, contagion, queueing), then run simulations with live metrics like clustering, inequality, throughput, and phase transitions. It’s a combination traditional + AI app: traditional simulation engine plus an AI assistant that converts plain-English hypotheses into rule sets, suggests parameter sweeps, and flags likely artifacts (e.g., boundary effects, timestep instability). Export results as shareable “repro cards” (seed, parameters, charts) for labs, product teams, and educators. Realistically, it won’t replace serious tools like NetLogo/Mesa for deep research; it wins by being faster to iterate, easier to share, and good enough for early insight, teaching, and product experimentation.