Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to swarm-ai-research/swarm. 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/swarm-ai-research/swarm/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/swarm-ai-research/swarmWrote 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/swarm-ai-research/swarm/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/swarm-ai-research/swarm/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/swarm-ai-research/swarm/agents-md.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.02883 | $0.02883 |
| Opus 5 | $0.01442 | $0.01442 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00577 | $0.00577 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00288 | $0.00288 |
Grade A, and why
swarm 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 4d 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 — 236 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS
This repo maintains task-focused LLM agent personas in .claude/agents/*.md. Use the role that best matches the work and treat the .claude/agents files as the source of truth.
Scope & Precedence
- This guidance applies to coding agents operating in this repository (including Claude Code and Codex-style agents).
- Instruction priority is: system/developer/user directives first, then this file.
Session Start — check the coordination channel
- The SessionStart hook surfaces unacked
agent_messagesrows automatically. Manual query:sqlite3 runs/runs.db "SELECT id, ts, from_agent, body FROM agent_messages WHERE acked=0 ORDER BY ts;" - Dispatch is pull-model (beads-x3q7):
TRACK:rows carry a ranked shortlist for a persona; if one matches your role, verify its top pick is still open (bd show <id>), then claim it atomically with/claim <bead>— the claim gate refuses if another session holds it (take the next-ranked, not a fight). Digests older than 4h, or whose track had a close since publication, are stale: re-run the ranking yourself (/bv-dispatch plan, orscripts/dispatch_staleness.py+bd ready) instead of trusting them. ASSIGN:rows (strategic beads only — critical path, epics) override the digest for the named persona: claim that bead first via/claim <bead>unless it is closed or the claim is refused.- Either way: reply on the channel
(
INSERT INTO agent_messages (from_agent,to_agent,body) VALUES ('<you>','#swarm','CLAIM: <bead>')), then ack the row (UPDATE agent_messages SET acked=1 WHERE id=<id>)./claimreplaces barebd update --status in_progress(advisory only — see CLAUDE.md § Session Work-Start Protocol). - Announce significant completions with a
DONE: <bead>: <summary>row including a concrete artifact (commit hash,runs/path, orartifact=<ref>) andgate=<check>:<result>. A DB trigger rejects artifact-less DONE rows — a status report is not a completion. Schema and conventions: CLAUDE.md § Inter-Session Coordination (agent_messages).
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 236 lines · 2,883 tokens per session scan A db3205011b83
swarm AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository swarm-ai-research/swarm (41 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 2,883 tokens to every session, about $0.0144 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 2026-09-03.
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