smart-agents

An automatic agent-spawning system that chooses and starts AI agents based on the files being edited and the difficulty of the task. For example, it can use coding agents for JavaScript or TypeScript and analysis agents for JSON or YAML.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to coordinate agents while editing different file types or handling larger tasks such as adding Google login, where planning, coding, testing, and research may all be needed.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of deciding which agents to start for each task. It can add more agents when the workload grows or when work can be done in parallel.

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/ruvnet/ruview/smart-agents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ruvnet/RuView

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 393 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 $0.00393
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00197
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00039

Measured 2d ago against content hash 238825c0f83e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

smart-agents 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 2d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.claude/commands/automation/smart-agents.md · 73 lines

What it actually says

Smart Agent Auto-Spawning

Purpose

Automatically spawn the right agents at the right time without manual intervention.

Auto-Spawning Triggers

1. File Type Detection

When editing files, agents auto-spawn:

  • JavaScript/TypeScript: Coder agent
  • Markdown: Researcher agent
  • JSON/YAML: Analyst agent
  • Multiple files: Coordinator agent

2. Task Complexity

Simple task: "Fix typo"
→ Single coordinator agent

Complex task: "Implement OAuth with Google"
→ Architect + Coder + Tester + Researcher

3. Dynamic Scaling

The system monitors workload and spawns additional agents when:

  • Task queue grows
  • Complexity increases
  • Parallel opportunities exist

Status Monitoring:

// Check swarm health
mcp__claude-flow__swarm_status({
  "swarmId": "current"
})

// Monitor agent performance
mcp__claude-flow__agent_metrics({
  "agentId": "agent-123"
})

Configuration

MCP Tool Integration

Uses Claude Flow MCP tools for agent coordination:

// Initialize swarm with appropriate topology
mcp__claude-flow__swarm_init({
  "topology": "mesh",
  "maxAgents": 8,
  "strategy": "auto"
})

// Spawn agents based on file type
mcp__claude-flow__agent_spawn({
  "type": "coder",
  "name": "JavaScript Handler",
  "capabilities": ["javascript", "typescript"]
})

Fallback Configuration

If MCP tools are unavailable:

npx claude-flow hook pre-task --auto-spawn-agents

Benefits

  • 🤖 Zero manual agent management
  • 🎯 Perfect agent selection
  • 📈 Dynamic scaling
  • 💾 Resource efficiency
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. 2d ago First seen · 73 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 238825c0f83e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

smart-agents is a command published in the GitHub repository ruvnet/RuView (92,289 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 393 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 2026-08-30.