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Meta-Agents

Meta-agents are self-improving systems that monitor, analyze, and optimize other agents over time. They operate at a higher level, treating agents as subjects for continuous improvement rather than executing tasks directly. Meta-agents enable continuous optimization without manual intervention, capturing knowledge from execution patterns, testing improvements systematically, and adapting to changing conditions—reducing maintenance burden while compounding performance gains over time.

With meta-agents, your agents:​

  • Improve autonomously without manual tuning
  • Compound performance gains as execution data accumulates
  • Adapt automatically to changing models, tools, and usage patterns
  • Reduce operational overhead through self-sustaining optimization
  • Maintain consistent quality as workloads scale

Evolver​

Evolver is aiXplain's meta-agent that provides continuous optimization capabilities.

What it does:
Monitors agent performance across executions, identifies optimization opportunities, and automatically tests and applies improvements. This enables agents to improve continuously without manual intervention, reducing operational overhead while compounding performance gains over time. Agents adapt automatically as models, tools, and requirements evolve—staying optimized throughout their operational lifetime.

What Evolver Optimizes​

Instruction Evolution

  • Analyzes which instruction patterns produce better outcomes
  • Tests instruction variations and learns from results
  • Refines prompts for clarity and effectiveness over time

Tool Selection & Usage

  • Identifies which tools provide value vs. those rarely used
  • Detects inefficient tool calling patterns
  • Optimizes when and how agents use tools

Agent Composition

  • Determines when team structure should change
  • Adds specialized agents as needs emerge
  • Restructures tasks based on actual requirements

Parameter Adjustment

  • Optimizes settings like max_iterations, max_tokens, temperature
  • Balances cost, latency, and quality tradeoffs automatically
  • Adapts parameters to workload patterns

How Evolver Works​

  1. Monitor – Observes agent executions, collecting performance data and patterns
  2. Analyze – Identifies optimization opportunities and generates improvement hypotheses
  3. Test – Runs controlled A/B experiments comparing configurations
  4. Deploy – Applies validated improvements automatically or with approval

Monitoring​

Evolver generates reports tracking optimization activity and results:

  • Evolution criteria – What changed and why across optimization cycles
  • Benchmark comparisons – Performance metrics comparing agent variants
  • A/B test results – Statistical validation of improvements
  • Applied changes – Audit trail of all modifications with timestamps

When to Use Evolver​

Enable for:

  • Production agents with consistent traffic
  • Long-running deployments where manual optimization is impractical
  • Systems where small performance gains compound significantly

Use Review Mode for:

  • Customer-facing agents where quality is critical
  • Regulated industries requiring human oversight
  • Testing Evolver for the first time