swarm-orchestration

swarm-orchestration is a skill for Claude Code from ruvnet/ruflo. It costs 96 tokens per session (722 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A system for coordinating multiple AI agents on complex development tasks. It divides work among specialized agents and organizes their work across several files or modules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for features spanning three or more files, cross-module refactoring, API changes with tests, security work, performance improvements, or database schema changes.
Why use it?
It gives large changes a shared structure, making it easier to split work, coordinate agents, and keep related changes aligned.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

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

not rated 71krepo +669 2d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: warn 96 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it for features spanning three or more files, cross-module refactoring, API changes with tests, security work, performance improvements, or database schema changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ruvnet/ruflo/swarm-orchestration
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 · 71,074 stars · on GitHub · cognitum.one

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.

Any agent
npx skills add ruvnet/ruflo --skill swarm-orchestration
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo

Made for: Claude Code.

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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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 722 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 pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 1 Mar 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 10 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 36
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 41
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 48
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 53
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 60
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 65
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 72
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 79
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 84
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 91
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00096 $0.00722
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00361
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00144
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00072

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6a9ee0ac32c2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

swarm-orchestration 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/swarm-monitor.sh, scripts/swarm-start.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/swarm-orchestration/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Swarm Orchestration Skill

Purpose

Multi-agent swarm coordination for complex tasks. Uses hierarchical topology with specialized agents to break down and execute complex work across multiple files and modules.

When to Trigger

  • 3+ files need changes
  • new feature implementation
  • cross-module refactoring
  • API changes with tests
  • security-related changes
  • performance optimization across codebase
  • database schema changes

When to Skip

  • single file edits
  • simple bug fixes (1-2 lines)
  • documentation updates
  • configuration changes
  • quick exploration

Commands

Initialize Swarm

Start a new swarm with hierarchical topology (anti-drift)

npx @claude-flow/cli swarm init --topology hierarchical --max-agents 8 --strategy specialized

Example:

npx @claude-flow/cli swarm init --topology hierarchical --max-agents 6 --strategy specialized

Route Task

Route a task to the appropriate agents based on task type

npx @claude-flow/cli hooks route --task "[task description]"

Example:

npx @claude-flow/cli hooks route --task "implement OAuth2 authentication flow"

Spawn Agent

Spawn a specific agent type

npx @claude-flow/cli agent spawn --type [type] --name [name]

Example:

npx @claude-flow/cli agent spawn --type coder --name impl-auth

Monitor Status

Check the current swarm status

npx @claude-flow/cli swarm status --verbose

Orchestrate Task

Orchestrate a task across multiple agents

npx @claude-flow/cli task orchestrate --task "[task]" --strategy adaptive

Example:

npx @claude-flow/cli task orchestrate --task "refactor auth module" --strategy parallel --max-agents 4

List Agents

List all active agents

npx @claude-flow/cli agent list --filter active

Scripts

Script Path Description
swarm-start .agents/scripts/swarm-start.sh Initialize swarm with default settings
swarm-monitor .agents/scripts/swarm-monitor.sh Real-time swarm monitoring dashboard

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 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. 4d ago First seen · 115 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 6a9ee0ac32c2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

swarm-orchestration is a skill published in the GitHub repository ruvnet/ruflo (71,074 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 722 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 2026-09-03.

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