agent-types

agent-types is an agent for Claude Code from ruvnet/ruflo. It costs 0 tokens per session (170 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference guide to the available agent roles and the kinds of work each role handles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to browse agent types, compare their responsibilities, and find suitable roles for a project.
Why use it?
It makes it easier to choose an agent suited to coding, testing, research, planning, coordination, or specialised development.

Agent for Claude Code

Part of the claude-flow plugin — 134 skills, 52 commands, 11 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

About the project

Ruflo is an execution and coordination layer for Claude Code and Codex that equips AI coding agents with tools, memory, control loops, sandboxes, and collaboration mechanisms. Developers use it to organize specialized agents into swarms, coordinate workflows, retain knowledge across sessions, and communicate across machines. The catalogue entries are Ruflo’s skills, commands, agents, hooks, and plugin components.

ruvnet/ruflo · 70,498 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/ruvnet/ruflo/agent-types
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-flow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 134 skills, 52 commands, 11 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 170 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00170
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00085
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00034
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00017

Measured yesterday against content hash d791bef16a13, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-types scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.claude/commands/agents/agent-types.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

agent-types

Complete guide to all 54 available agent types in Claude Flow.

Core Development Agents

  • coder - Implementation specialist
  • reviewer - Code quality assurance
  • tester - Test creation and validation
  • planner - Strategic planning
  • researcher - Information gathering

Swarm Coordination Agents

  • hierarchical-coordinator - Queen-led coordination
  • mesh-coordinator - Peer-to-peer networks
  • adaptive-coordinator - Dynamic topology

Specialized Agents

  • backend-dev - API development
  • mobile-dev - React Native development
  • ml-developer - Machine learning
  • system-architect - High-level design

For full list and details:

npx claude-flow agents list
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 27 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A d791bef16a13

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agent-types is an agent published in the GitHub repository ruvnet/ruflo (70,498 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 170 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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