swarm

swarm is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from andrew-hernandez-paragon/code-graph-context. It costs 95 tokens per session (2,833 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coordination system for multiple coding agents working on one complex change. Agents share tasks and progress through a code graph, using task queues or indirect markers called pheromone trails to avoid overlapping work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Breaking work into parallel tasks, assigning agents to files or modules, tracking dependencies, and coordinating implementation across a codebase.
Why use it?
It helps divide large, multi-file jobs without losing track of ownership or creating conflicting edits. The shared task board shows what needs doing and what has been claimed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/andrew-hernandez-paragon/code-graph-context/swarm
Any agent
npx skills add andrew-hernandez-paragon/code-graph-context --skill swarm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/andrew-hernandez-paragon/code-graph-context

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,833 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 5.1 $0.00095 $0.02833
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01417
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00567
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00283

Measured 5d ago against content hash 1096e44bd139, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

swarm 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 5d 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.

skills/swarm/SKILL.md · 419 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 419 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Swarm Coordination System

Execute complex, multi-file codebase changes with parallel AI agents that coordinate through the code graph.

Two Coordination Mechanisms

Mechanism Pattern Best For
Pheromones Stigmergy (indirect) Exploration, claiming territory, avoiding conflicts
Task Queue Blackboard (explicit) Defined work items, dependencies, progress tracking

Use both together: tasks define WHAT to do, pheromones prevent WHO from colliding.


Quick Start: Manual Orchestration

For multi-file tasks, decompose and post tasks manually:

// 1. Create a swarm and post tasks
swarm_post_task({
  projectId: "<PROJECT>",
  swarmId: "swarm_<slug>",
  title: "Implement feature X",
  description: "...",
  type: "implement",
  createdBy: "orchestrator"
})

// 2. Spawn workers to claim and execute tasks
Task({
  subagent_type: "general-purpose",
  run_in_background: false,  // CRITICAL: must be false for MCP tools
  prompt: "Claim and execute task from swarm_<slug>..."
})

Core Concepts

Swarm ID

Every swarm needs a unique ID for coordination and cleanup:

const swarmId = `swarm_${Date.now()}`

Node IDs

NEVER fabricate node IDs. They must come from graph tool responses:

// Get from search
const result = search_codebase({ projectId, query: "..." })
const nodeId = Object.keys(result.nodes)[0]

// Get from traversal
const result = traverse_from_node({ projectId, filePath: "..." })
const nodeId = result.startNodeId

Format: proj_<12hex>:<NodeType>:<16hex>

Pheromone Types

Type Half-Life Meaning
exploring 2 min Reading/browsing
claiming 1 hour Reserved territory
modifying 10 min Actively editing
completed 24 hours Work finished
blocked 5 min Stuck/waiting
warning Never Do not touch
proposal 1 hour Awaiting approval
needs_review 30 min Review requested

Read the full file on GitHub · 419 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.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 419 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A 1096e44bd139

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swarm is a skill published in the GitHub repository andrew-hernandez-paragon/code-graph-context (17 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 2,833 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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