cancel-swarm

cancel-swarm is a command for coding agents from GantisStorm/essentials-claude-code. It costs 4 tokens per session (284 once invoked), scanned A, original, Unlicense.

A command for stopping active swarm workers, which are independent background agents working on separate tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after /implement-swarm, /plan-swarm, /tasks-swarm, or /beads-swarm when you need to stop the workers and review task status.
Why use it?
It prevents unfinished swarm work from continuing and shows which tasks finished, were interrupted, or are still waiting. Completed task progress is kept.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/gantisstorm/essentials-claude-code/cancel-swarm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GantisStorm/essentials-claude-code

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Per session 4 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 284 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 $0.00004 $0.00284
Opus 5 $0.00002 $0.00142
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00028

Measured 3d ago against content hash cfebedd50150, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cancel-swarm 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 3d ago.

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.

essentials/commands/cancel-swarm.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

Cancel Swarm

Stop any active swarm workers.

Works with all swarm commands: /implement-swarm, /plan-swarm, /tasks-swarm, /beads-swarm.

Note: Loop and swarm commands are interchangeable - use /cancel-swarm for swarms and /cancel-loop for loops.

Instructions

  1. Call TaskList to see all tasks and their status
  2. For any tasks with status in_progress:
    • Note the owner (worker name)
    • The worker may still be running
  3. Use TaskStop to halt any background workers still active
  4. Report:
    • Completed tasks: N
    • In-progress (interrupted): N
    • Pending (not started): N

If no in-progress tasks found:

  • Say "No active swarm found."

After Cancellation

Task progress is preserved:

  • Completed tasks remain completed
  • In-progress tasks may complete if worker finishes
  • Pending tasks remain pending

To check task status:

TaskList

Note

Unlike loop cancellation, swarm workers are independent agents. If a worker completed its current task before cancellation, that work is saved. For Agent Teams (tmux-based), use /cancel-team instead.

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. 3d ago First seen · 46 lines · 4 tokens per session scan A cfebedd50150

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cancel-swarm is a command published in the GitHub repository GantisStorm/essentials-claude-code (91 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Unlicense. It adds 4 tokens to every session and 284 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-30.