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.
npx skills add desplega-ai/agent-swarm --skill start-workergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/desplega-ai/agent-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/skills/desplega-ai/agent-swarm/start-worker)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/desplega-ai/agent-swarm/start-worker"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/desplega-ai/agent-swarm/start-worker/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/skills/desplega-ai/agent-swarm/start-worker"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/desplega-ai/agent-swarm/start-worker.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00009 | $0.00645 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00322 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00002 | $0.00129 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00001 | $0.00064 |
Grade A, and why
start-worker 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 9d 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 — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Agent Swarm Worker
Initial disclaimer
If the agent-swarm MCP server is not configured or disabled, return immediately with the following message:
⚠️ The Agent Swarm MCP server is not configured or disabled.
Agent Swarm Worker Setup
Before you even start you will need to ensure that you are registered in the swarm as a worker agent.
To do so, use the agent-swarm MCP server and call the join-swarm with a name. Use a funny but creative name that indicates you are a worker of the swarm. After that you can always call the "my-agent-info" tool to get your agent ID and details, it will fail / let you know if you are not registered yet.
Tools Reference
Polling for tasks
poll-task- Wait for new task assignments for youget-tasks- List tasks with filters (status, unassigned, tags), usemineOnlyto true to see only your tasksget-task-details- Deep dive into a specific task's progress and output
Managing swarm tasks:
task-action- Claim unassigned tasks, release tasks back to poolstore-progress- Update progress on tasks you're working on yourself
Management:
- Use
/skill:swarm-chatfor effective communication within the swarm and user. - Use the
/skill:todosto manage your personal todo list. get-swarm- See all agents and their status (idle, busy, offline)
Workflow
- The first thing you need to do, is use the
get-taskstool withmineOnlyset to true, to check what tasks you might have in progress or assigned to you. 1.1. If there's a task that is in progress, you should resume working on it! - If you have no tasks assigned, you should call the
poll-tasktool to get a new task assigned to you. This will poll for a while and return either with: 2.1. A new task assigned to you 2.2. A message indicating there's no tasks available right now - If 2.2, start polling immediately FOREVER. Only stop if you get interrupted by the user, if not, just keep polling.
- If you get assigned a task, call
/skill:work-on-task <taskId>to start working on it.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 61 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 80da527d16cf
start-worker is a skill published in the GitHub repository desplega-ai/agent-swarm (754 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 645 once invoked, about $0.0000 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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