Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to DheerG/swarms. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DheerG/swarms/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DheerG/swarmsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/dheerg/swarms/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/dheerg/swarms/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/dheerg/swarms/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/dheerg/swarms/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/dheerg/swarms/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.04404 | $0.04404 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01762 | $0.01762 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00881 | $0.00881 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00440 | $0.00440 |
Grade A, and why
swarms AGENTS.md 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.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.
Anti-ratchet constraint on the briefing templates
- The briefing templates are FIXED (canonical in skills/workflow-rules/SKILL.md). No added sections, no prescribed investigation steps, no "first action" items, no acknowledgment rituals. If a member needs more context, improve the noun-phrase identity in suggest-members — never the template. (Observed regression vector: f7db555 sprayed framing into every brief → premature-termination and step-repetition failures.)
- Carve-out: harness protocol mechanics are permitted. One instruction on HOW members communicate (SendMessage is the wire; plain text dies with the turn) is transport, not task prescription. Task framing, lifecycle framing, phase framing, and rituals remain forbidden.
What This Is
Swarm is a Claude Code plugin for launching agent teams. Eight commands drive an interactive setup that creates a coordinated team with defined roles and rules; users extend it with custom mode skills — full modes or thin wrappers over a built-in mode.
Architecture
Everything is a prompt. No runtime composition, no imports, no framework — self-contained markdown consumed in one pass.
commands/launch.md # Catch-all command — interactive team setup (Steps 0–8)
commands/code.md # Mode shortcut — pre-selects Code, delegates to launch.md
commands/triage.md # Mode shortcut — pre-selects Triage, delegates to launch.md
commands/write.md # Mode shortcut — pre-selects Writing, delegates to launch.md
commands/refine.md # Standalone — runs Review/Refine/Deliver against the current branch + PR
commands/workflow.md # Custom mode entry point — takes a mode skill name, delegates to launch.md
commands/create-workflow.md # Scaffolding — interviews user, generates mode skill + shortcut command (wrapper or full)
commands/update-workflow.md # Refresh — regenerates the plugin-owned wiring of an existing shortcut command
skills/code-mode/ # Code mode: lead identity, facilitator title, rules, phase arc
skills/triage-mode/ # Triage mode: diagnose an issue (cause + blast radius), no code change; phase arc has no Refine
skills/writing-mode/ # Writing mode: lead identity, facilitator title, ownership boundaries, editorial baseline, phase arc
skills/general-mode/ # General mode: silent fallback + wrapper base — no shortcut command
skills/workflow-rules/ # CANONICAL governance spec — hard rules, briefing templates, gate presentation contract, launch mechanics, pulse
skills/gate-presentation/ # Frozen per-gate constants (question/options/digest/preview) — invoked fresh at each gate
skills/suggest-members/ # Recommends team composition based on outcomes and mode
skills/writing-style/ # Structural pattern analysis (trope detection) for writing-mode review
skills/resolve-dispute/ # Resolves stuck review findings via put-up-or-concede exchange
skills/define-rubric/ # Available skill for teams that genuinely need formal validation criteria
skills/independent-review-loop/ # Independent pre-delivery review loop — Codex or swarm-native fallback
agents/swarm-member.md # Read-only team-member agent definition — every spawned teammate
agents/swarm-reviewer.md # Ephemeral read-only reviewer for the independent-review-loop fallback — never a teammate
.claude-plugin/plugin.json # Plugin manifest
.claude-plugin/marketplace.json # Marketplace registry entry
.claude/swarm-ship.md # Per-project ship definition (created at first launch, user-owned)
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 106 lines · 4,404 tokens per session scan A 8e2841368780
swarms AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository DheerG/swarms (85 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4,404 tokens to every session, about $0.0176 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.
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next.js AGENTS.md
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vscode copilot-instructions.md
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deepseek-harness AGENTS.md
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