Advanced feature
A mini-team of AI agents — an architect, builders, and an integrator — that research, design, write, illustrate, and publish a full page for you in minutes. Just tell Chip what you want.
What it is
Saying “use the swarm” hands your request to a small team of AI agents that actually do things — search the web, fetch URLs, draft copy, generate images, write HTML, and publish the finished page to your account.
Most Chip messages return an answer. The swarm returns a deliverable. You ask for a page, a research report, or a multi-section explainer — Chip dispatches the swarm in the background, and a few minutes later you get a push notification that your new page is live at /pages/<slug>.
Under the hood it's three phases: an architect designs the page and breaks it into tasks, several builders run in parallel (each owning one task — research, copy, images, HTML), and an integrator stitches it all together, audits for broken links and gaps, and ships the final result.
How it works
The swarm runs the same loop every time — design, build in parallel, integrate, publish.
How to invoke
Any of these phrases dispatches the swarm. Chip detects them before anything else and routes you to agentic mode. Tap any trigger to copy.
Heads up
If you paste a transcript that contains the phrase, Chip won't fire the swarm — only your own un-quoted instruction triggers it.
You'll get a push when your page is live. Typical end-to-end time is two to six minutes depending on scope.
Output lands at /pages/<your-slug>/<new-slug>. Your homepage auto-refreshes to link to it.
What it can build
Anything that benefits from real research, real images, and real HTML — not just a chat reply.
A polished page on any topic — fetched sources, structured sections, original images, one published URL.
A small site under one parent — index, about, FAQ, gallery — all consistent in style, all linked together by the integrator.
Long-form, source-cited research — runs in research-only mode with multiple workers chasing leads in parallel.
Drop in everything you know about a topic — the swarm structures it into sections, finds supporting links, generates diagrams.
Platform-formatted ad copy for Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, Nextdoor, Reddit, IG, LinkedIn — plus a unified outreach plan CSV.
When you want real photos (download_image) or original illustrations (generate_image via Gemini) baked into the page, not just text.
Example prompts
Each of these is a complete, copy-paste-ready instruction. Tap Copy, paste into Chip, send.
Use the swarm to build me a page about how electric grid frequency stability works — what 60 Hz means, what knocks it off, why a half-hertz dip is a crisis, and how operators correct it. Real sources, two diagrams, dark-mode Apple aesthetic.
Give the swarm a precise subject and a quality bar. The architect uses both to plan tasks and pick visuals.
Use the swarm to build a single-property real-estate site for the Zillow listing at https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/EXAMPLE/. Fetch the listing, pull real photos, write the description, and publish it as a new page.
Pass in URLs. The fetch_url tool grabs them; the swarm grounds the page in real data instead of guessing.
Have the swarm research the 2026 outlook for residential solar in Florida — incentives, payback, the net-metering fight, top installers. Cite sources. Skip the image generator; this is a written report.
Say “research” and you get the research-only mode — workers chase the web, citations stay inline.
Use the swarm to build me a page that covers everything I know about [topic] — break it into clear sections, find supporting links, generate one or two diagrams, and organize it like an iOS Settings index with clean section headers.
Pre-load context. The more domain detail you give, the less the swarm has to guess.
Use the swarm to build a visually rich page about the history of the Apollo program — generated hero illustrations for each mission, real archival photos where available, one timeline graphic, one mission-map graphic. Single long-scroll column, mint accent.
Mix generated images (illustration) with downloaded ones (real photos). The architect splits the work across two image-builders.
Use the swarm to write me an outreach pack for our weekend yard sale at 123 Main St this Saturday — Craigslist post, Facebook Marketplace listing, Nextdoor announcement, a flyer, and a master outreach_plan.csv. Casual tone.
Multi-format outputs in one pass — each builder owns one platform, the integrator builds the master plan CSV.
Tips
A few habits that make the swarm reliably hit the brief.
“A page about Apollo” is too thin. “The history of Apollo 1–17, ordered by mission, with hero photos and a timeline” lets the architect plan real tasks.
If your topic is a specific listing, paper, or product, paste the URL. The swarm will fetch it directly instead of search-and-hope.
“For a CFO,” “for a parent,” “for a Reddit thread” — concrete audiences shape vocabulary, density, and example choice.
“Short, scannable, iOS aesthetic” vs “long-form research, citations inline” changes which builders run.
After the first run, follow-ups like “restyle that page” or “expand the second section” run a lighter pass — surgical edits, no re-research.
When to use it
Chip has a quick page-builder too. Use it for one-shot pages. Use the swarm when the page needs research, images, multiple sections, or real fetched data.
Build a page
One AI, one pass. Fast. No web fetch, no image generation, no parallelism.
Use the swarm
Architect → many builders → integrator. Real tools — web search, fetch URL, generate & download images, write multiple files.
Best for
A short page with content you already have. A FAQ. A bio. A landing snippet.
Best for
Research-heavy or image-heavy pages. Multi-page sites. Topics that need real sources, real photos, or real-time data.
Time
Seconds.
Time
2–6 minutes, in the background. Push notification when it's live.
Trigger
“build a page about …”
Trigger
“use the swarm to build …”
Open Chip and send one of these. The swarm runs in the background; you'll get a push when your page is live.
Chip keeps the rest of your page and changes only what you describe.
