swarm

swarm is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from qGolem/orc. It costs 9 tokens per session (2,251 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planner that divides a software task among several AI agents with different jobs, such as implementation, testing, code review, or fixing build errors.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create an implementation plan for a feature or development phase, including task breakdowns and suitable agent roles.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of deciding which agent should handle each part of a feature and how the tasks should fit together.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the orc plugin — 29 skills, 27 agents shipped together

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/qgolem/orc/swarm
Any agent
npx skills add qGolem/orc --skill swarm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/qGolem/orc

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install orc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 27 agents.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for swarm

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 9 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,251 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 $0.00009 $0.02251
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.01125
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00450
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00225

Measured 3d ago against content hash e451152e7787, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 3d 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 · 206 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Team Plan

Design a multi-agent team plan for an implementation task. Enters plan mode, explores the codebase, selects agent roles, writes task breakdowns with prompts, and exits for user approval.

Input

  • $ARGUMENTS — Task description (e.g., "build phase 4 of user-vaults", "implement auth middleware")

Agent Roster

Available agent types for teammates. Choose based on what each task requires:

Agent Type Tools Best For
orc:orc-executor Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Glob, Grep, Task, Skill, SendMessage, TaskCreate, TaskUpdate, TaskList Sequential task implementation with per-task commits
orc:orc-impl-verifier Read, Write, Glob, Grep, Bash, Task, Skill, SendMessage, TaskCreate, TaskUpdate, TaskList Verifying must_haves, running tsc/build, code review
orc:frontend-verifier All tools Browser testing (Agent Browser), visual QA, UI polish, CSS fixes
general-purpose All tools Flexible — anything that doesn't fit a specialized type
orc:build-error-resolver Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Grep, Glob Fixing tsc/build errors with minimal diffs

Selection heuristics:

  • Implementation work → orc:orc-executor (commits per task, follows PLAN.md)
  • Verification gate → orc:orc-impl-verifier (3-level checks against spec)
  • Frontend with UI → add orc:frontend-verifier after verification passes
  • Default model: opus for all teammates (strongest reasoning)

Execution

Step 1: Enter Plan Mode

Call EnterPlanMode. All subsequent work happens in plan mode (read-only except the plan file).

Step 2: Explore

Launch 1-3 Explore agents in parallel to understand:

  1. Scope: What files exist, what needs to be created, what needs to be modified
  2. Patterns: Existing code to mirror (find the closest analog for each new file)
  3. Spec: Read any existing plan/spec docs referenced in the task description
  4. Constraints: ABI signatures, type definitions, pitfall docs, test patterns

Read the full file on GitHub · 206 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 3d ago First seen · 206 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A e451152e7787

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swarm is a skill published in the GitHub repository qGolem/orc (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 2,251 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 2026-08-31.

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