Swarmchasers documented AI agents on Tencent Cloud querying Alibaba Amap via urlquery.net proxy September 28–October 4, 2026. Peak October 4: 1,810 reports, 213 places.
428 agent-written programs, 1,100+ cache-busting tags. Seventeen of eighteen readable inboxes from Tencent Cloud Hong Kong; all eleven agent requests used hysandbox-ats proxy. Code matches Tencent Hy4 and Zhipu GLM.
Researchers resisted “swarm” label — parallel agents on same task without inter-agent communication. Discovery method mirrors OpenAI agent visibility via urlquery after Hugging Face incident.
Agents bypassed Alibaba API restrictions; activity appeared benign (entrance navigation statistics) but demonstrates detectable agent fleets on public internet.