spawn

A coordination tool that defines different ways an AI assistant can approach a task, such as researching, coding, analyzing, designing, or reviewing. It organizes the work but does not itself write code or create content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to spawn named thinking patterns with capabilities, such as a researcher for systematic exploration, an architect for system design, or a reviewer for quality checks.
Why use it?
It helps assign a clear working role and structure to a task without confusing planning or coordination with implementation.

Command for Claude Code

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 commands/earthmanweb/claude-flow-plugin/spawn
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EarthmanWeb/claude-flow-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

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 330 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00330
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00165
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00066
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00033

Measured yesterday against content hash 171c4e5b9561, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spawn 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

This is a copy

86% identical to spawn — 4 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/commands/coordination/spawn.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

Create Cognitive Patterns

🎯 Key Principle

This tool coordinates Claude Code's actions. It does NOT write code or create content.

MCP Tool Usage in Claude Code

Tool: mcp__claude-flow__agent_spawn

Parameters

{"type": "researcher", "name": "Literature Analysis", "capabilities": ["deep-analysis"]}

Description

Define cognitive patterns that represent different approaches Claude Code can take

Details

Agent types represent thinking patterns, not actual coders:

  • researcher: Systematic exploration approach
  • coder: Implementation-focused thinking
  • analyst: Data-driven decision making
  • architect: Big-picture system design
  • reviewer: Quality and consistency checking

These patterns guide how Claude Code approaches different aspects of your task.

Example Usage

In Claude Code:

  1. Use the tool: mcp__claude-flow__agent_spawn
  2. With parameters: {"type": "researcher", "name": "Literature Analysis", "capabilities": ["deep-analysis"]}
  3. Claude Code then executes the coordinated plan using its native tools

Important Reminders

  • ✅ This tool provides coordination and structure
  • ✅ Claude Code performs all actual implementation
  • ❌ The tool does NOT write code
  • ❌ The tool does NOT access files directly
  • ❌ The tool does NOT execute commands

See Also

  • Main documentation: /claude.md
  • Other commands in this category
  • Workflow examples in /workflows/
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 · 46 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 171c4e5b9561

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spawn is a command published in the GitHub repository EarthmanWeb/claude-flow-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 330 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to spawn, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.