A command for initializing a Claude Flow swarm with a chosen connection layout, agent limit, and execution strategy. A swarm is a coordinated group of task-focused agents.

Use it to configure mesh, hierarchical, ring, or star layouts; choose parallel, sequential, or balanced execution; and optionally enable automatic agents, persistent memory, or GitHub integration.

It sets the rules for how agents communicate and how work is scheduled before a complex task begins.

swarm-init — Command for Claude Code by ruvnet/ruflo

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 · 77,829 stars · on GitHub · cognitum.one

Install

Getting it into your agent

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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 135 skills, 52 commands, 11 agents, 4 hooks.

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When invoked 482 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00000	$0.00482
Opus 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00193
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00096
Haiku 4.5	$0.00000	$0.00048

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Security

Grade A, and why

swarm-init 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 1mo ago.

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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

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How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

swarm init

Initialize a Claude Flow swarm with specified topology and configuration.

Usage

npx claude-flow swarm init [options]

Options

--topology, -t <type> - Swarm topology: mesh, hierarchical, ring, star (default: hierarchical)
--max-agents, -m <number> - Maximum number of agents (default: 8)
--strategy, -s <type> - Execution strategy: balanced, parallel, sequential (default: parallel)
--auto-spawn - Automatically spawn agents based on task complexity
--memory - Enable cross-session memory persistence
--github - Enable GitHub integration features

Examples

Basic initialization

npx claude-flow swarm init

Mesh topology for research

npx claude-flow swarm init --topology mesh --max-agents 5 --strategy balanced

Hierarchical for development

npx claude-flow swarm init --topology hierarchical --max-agents 10 --strategy parallel --auto-spawn

GitHub-focused swarm

npx claude-flow swarm init --topology star --github --memory

Topologies

Mesh

All agents connect to all others
Best for: Research, exploration, brainstorming
Communication: High overhead, maximum information sharing

Hierarchical

Tree structure with clear command chain
Best for: Development, structured tasks, large projects
Communication: Efficient, clear responsibilities

Ring

Agents connect in a circle
Best for: Pipeline processing, sequential workflows
Communication: Low overhead, ordered processing

Star

Central coordinator with satellite agents
Best for: Simple tasks, centralized control
Communication: Minimal overhead, clear coordination

Integration with Claude Code

Once initialized, use MCP tools in Claude Code:

mcp__claude-flow__swarm_init { topology: "hierarchical", maxAgents: 8 }

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.

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swarm-init is a command published in the GitHub repository ruvnet/ruflo (77,829 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 482 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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