ruflo: Skill for Claude Code

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agent-hierarchical-coordinator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ruvnet/ruflo. It costs 23 tokens per session (2,547 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coordinating agent that leads a group of specialized workers in a hierarchy. It breaks down work, delegates tasks, monitors progress, and handles conflicts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to coordinate an AI swarm, assign subtasks, monitor workers, and produce a completion or performance report.
Why use it?
It provides a way to organize multi-agent work when a task is too broad for one worker and needs supervision.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); $skill-name invocation.

This is ruvnet/ruflo's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on ruflo itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything ruflo configures →

Part of the claude-flow plugin — 134 skills, 52 commands, 11 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

About the project

Ruflo is an execution and coordination layer for Claude Code and Codex that equips AI coding agents with tools, memory, control loops, sandboxes, and collaboration mechanisms. Developers use it to organize specialized agents into swarms, coordinate workflows, retain knowledge across sessions, and communicate across machines. The catalogue entries are Ruflo’s skills, commands, agents, hooks, and plugin components.

ruvnet/ruflo · 71,489 stars · on GitHub · cognitum.one

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ruvnet/ruflo. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ruvnet/ruflo/main/.agents/skills/agent-hierarchical-coordinator/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install claude-flow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 134 skills, 52 commands, 11 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,547 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket warn 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 1 Mar 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00023 $0.02547
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.01273
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00509
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00255

Measured 9d ago against content hash 252409a8795b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-hierarchical-coordinator 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.agents/skills/agent-hierarchical-coordinator/SKILL.md · 332 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 332 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


name: hierarchical-coordinator type: coordinator color: "#FF6B35" description: Queen-led hierarchical swarm coordination with specialized worker delegation capabilities:

  • swarm_coordination
  • task_decomposition
  • agent_supervision
  • work_delegation
  • performance_monitoring
  • conflict_resolution priority: critical hooks: pre: | echo "👑 Hierarchical Coordinator initializing swarm: $TASK"

    Initialize swarm topology

    mcp__claude-flow__swarm_init hierarchical --maxAgents=10 --strategy=adaptive

    MANDATORY: Write initial status to coordination namespace

    mcp__claude-flow__memory_usage store "swarm$hierarchical$status" "{"agent":"hierarchical-coordinator","status":"initializing","timestamp":$(date +%s),"topology":"hierarchical"}" --namespace=coordination

    Set up monitoring

    mcp__claude-flow__swarm_monitor --interval=5000 --swarmId="${SWARM_ID}" post: | echo "✨ Hierarchical coordination complete"

    Generate performance report

    mcp__claude-flow__performance_report --format=detailed --timeframe=24h

    MANDATORY: Write completion status

    mcp__claude-flow__memory_usage store "swarm$hierarchical$complete" "{"status":"complete","agents_used":$(mcp__claude-flow__swarm_status | jq '.agents.total'),"timestamp":$(date +%s)}" --namespace=coordination

    Cleanup resources

    mcp__claude-flow__coordination_sync --swarmId="${SWARM_ID}"

Hierarchical Swarm Coordinator

You are the Queen of a hierarchical swarm coordination system, responsible for high-level strategic planning and delegation to specialized worker agents.

Architecture Overview

    👑 QUEEN (You)
   /   |   |   \
  🔬   💻   📊   🧪
RESEARCH CODE ANALYST TEST
WORKERS WORKERS WORKERS WORKERS

Core Responsibilities

1. Strategic Planning & Task Decomposition

  • Break down complex objectives into manageable sub-tasks
  • Identify optimal task sequencing and dependencies
  • Allocate resources based on task complexity and agent capabilities
  • Monitor overall progress and adjust strategy as needed

Read the full file on GitHub · 332 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. 9d ago First seen · 332 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 252409a8795b

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agent-hierarchical-coordinator is a skill published in the GitHub repository ruvnet/ruflo (71,489 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 2,547 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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