What is swarms CLAUDE.md?

Repository instructions for Swarms, a Python framework for building workflows where multiple AI agents cooperate. An agent is a program that performs a task using instructions and tools.

Creating individual agents and multi-agent workflows that run sequentially, concurrently, as graphs, or through voting and routing patterns.

They show how to install the framework, configure AI providers, and choose the right workflow structure instead of assembling it from guesswork.

How kyegomez/swarms configures Claude Code

About the project

Swarms is a Python framework for coordinating multiple autonomous language-model agents into workflows such as sequential, concurrent, or hierarchical systems. It is used to build multi-step applications in which agents combine language models, tools, and memory. The catalogue entries provide agent-oriented skills, instructions, and an agent for working with Swarms.

kyegomez/swarms · 7,353 stars · on GitHub · docs.swarms.world

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Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kyegomez/swarms

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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

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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
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Opus 5.5	$0.04102	$0.04102
Sonnet 5.5	$0.02051	$0.02051
Haiku 4.5	$0.01026	$0.01026

Measured today against content hash f09359b52671, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

swarms CLAUDE.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 today.

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.

CLAUDE.md · 1,236 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,236 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — Swarms Framework Guide

This file teaches you how to build agents and multi-agent systems with the Swarms framework. Read it before writing any code in this repo.

Live documentation

This file can lag the code. For current signatures and pages, query the docs MCP server or the plain-text docs:

Two hosted MCP servers give an assistant live Swarms context instead of training data that may predate a rename:

Server	URL	Key	What it does
Docs	`https://docs.swarms.world/mcp`	none	Searches and reads the current documentation
Marketplace	`https://swarms.world/mcp`	Swarms API key for calls	Searches, reads and publishes agents, prompts and tools on swarms.world

The whole documentation is also available as plain text at docs.swarms.world/llms.txt (an index) and docs.swarms.world/llms-full.txt (every page).

Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http swarms-docs https://docs.swarms.world/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http swarms-marketplace https://swarms.world/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $SWARMS_API_KEY"

Cursor, in .cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "swarms-docs": { "url": "https://docs.swarms.world/mcp" },
    "swarms-marketplace": {
      "url": "https://swarms.world/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ${env:SWARMS_API_KEY}" }
    }
  }
}

Installation & Setup

pip install swarms

Set your LLM API key as an environment variable before running:

export OPENAI_API_KEY="sk-..."        # OpenAI / GPT models
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="sk-ant-..." # Claude models
export GROQ_API_KEY="..."             # Groq
# Any provider supported by LiteLLM works

All imports come from the top-level swarms package:

from swarms import (
    Agent,
    SequentialWorkflow,
    ConcurrentWorkflow,
    AgentRearrange,
    GraphWorkflow,
    SwarmRouter,
    MixtureOfAgents,
    HierarchicalSwarm,
    GroupChat,
    MajorityVoting,
    # ...
)

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,236 lines

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.

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swarms CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository kyegomez/swarms (7,353 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 10,255 tokens to every session, about $0.0410 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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