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title: "What is a Pool?"
description: "A pool manages a group of identical agents that process tasks in parallel. Think of it as a thread pool for AI agents. Property Description Name Pool identifier Size Number of concurrent agents Agent Template agent to cl"
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# What is a Pool?

A pool manages a group of identical agents that process tasks in parallel. Think of it as a thread pool for AI agents.

## How It Works

```
Task Queue: [T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7, T8]

Pool (size: 3):
  Agent 1: T1 → T4 → T7
  Agent 2: T2 → T5 → T8
  Agent 3: T3 → T6
```

## Creating a Pool

```bash
naos pool create workers --size 5 --agent researcher
```

## Pool Properties

| Property | Description |
|----------|-------------|
| Name | Pool identifier |
| Size | Number of concurrent agents |
| Agent | Template agent to clone |
| Strategy | Task distribution method |
| Queue | Pending tasks |