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Advanced Swarm Orchestration

by ruvnet in ruvnet/agentic-flow

Patterns for running multi-agent swarms on research, development and testing work, with four topologies and a four-phase research swarm built on claude-flow MCP tools.

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Install Advanced Swarm Orchestration

skills CLI
$ npx skills add ruvnet/agentic-flow --skill swarm-advanced -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install ruvnet/agentic-flow swarm-advanced --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ruvnet/agentic-flow.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/swarm-advanced .claude/skills/swarm-advanced && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
swarm-advanced
GitHub stars
818
Used in
5 other repos
Token cost
~5.9k tokens
SKILL.md length
534 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
21
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Patterns for running multi-agent swarms on research, development and testing work, with four topologies and a four-phase research swarm built on claude-flow MCP tools.

  • Works in 12 steps: Information Gathering → Analysis and Validation → Knowledge Management → …
  • Splitting a research task across agents that gather information in parallel
  • SKILL.md covers Quick Start, Core Concepts, Pattern 1: Research Swarm and Pattern 2: Development Swarm, plus 3 more sections
  • Calls npx, npm and claude

What it does

The skill is a pattern guide for Claude Flow swarms, used through MCP tools or CLI commands. It explains four topologies and what each suits: mesh for research and analysis, hierarchical for structured development, star for testing and validation, and ring for staged pipelines. Agent strategies are adaptive, balanced, specialized and parallel.

The first pattern is a research swarm that moves from parallel information gathering through analysis and validation and knowledge management to report generation. It calls claude-flow MCP tools such as swarm_init, parallel_execute, pattern_recognize, memory_search and task_orchestrate, and it expects claude-flow to be installed globally with npm.

When your agent uses it

  • Splitting a research task across agents that gather information in parallel
  • Choosing a swarm topology for a development, testing or pipeline workflow
  • Producing a synthesized research report from several agents' findings

Example prompts

  • “Set up a mesh swarm of six agents to research vector database options and write a report.”
  • “Which swarm topology fits a test-and-validate workflow?”
  • “Run a research swarm on WebRTC scaling and save what it learns to memory.”

Requirements

  • claude-flow installed globally with npm

Workflow steps

12 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Information Gathering
  2. Analysis and Validation
  3. Knowledge Management
  4. Report Generation
  5. Architecture and Design
  6. Parallel Implementation
  7. Testing and Validation
  8. Review and Deployment
  9. Test Planning
  10. Parallel Test Execution
  11. Performance and Security
  12. Monitoring and Reporting

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit a2f6c1c. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • npx
    • npm
    • claude

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • github.com

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Advanced Swarm Orchestration loads about 5.9k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 31 tokens; SKILL.md has 534 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~31
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~5.9k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 534 words (~5,948 tokens).

“Master advanced swarm patterns for distributed research, development, and testing workflows. This skill covers comprehensive orchestration strategies using both MCP tools and CLI commands.”

— opening of SKILL.md by ruvnet
name
swarm-advanced
version
2.0.0
category
orchestration
tags
swarm, distributed, parallel, research, testing, development, coordination
author
Claude Flow Team

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in .claude/skills/swarm-advanced of ruvnet/agentic-flow.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit a2f6c1c

Used in 9 other repositories

We found 16 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 5 other GitHub owners. This page covers the copy in ruvnet/agentic-flow, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Advanced Swarm Orchestration

What does Advanced Swarm Orchestration do?

Patterns for running multi-agent swarms on research, development and testing work, with four topologies and a four-phase research swarm built on claude-flow MCP tools. The skill is a pattern guide for Claude Flow swarms, used through MCP tools or CLI commands. It explains four topologies and what each suits: mesh for research and analysis, hierarchical for structured development, star for testing and validation, and ring for staged pipelines.

When should I use Advanced Swarm Orchestration?

Advanced Swarm Orchestration fits situations like: splitting a research task across agents that gather information in parallel; choosing a swarm topology for a development, testing or pipeline workflow; producing a synthesized research report from several agents' findings.

How do I install Advanced Swarm Orchestration in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add ruvnet/agentic-flow --skill swarm-advanced -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/swarm-advanced in ruvnet/agentic-flow) into .claude/skills/swarm-advanced in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Advanced Swarm Orchestration in Codex?

Run `npx skills add ruvnet/agentic-flow --skill swarm-advanced -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/swarm-advanced in ruvnet/agentic-flow) into .agents/skills/swarm-advanced in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Advanced Swarm Orchestration in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add ruvnet/agentic-flow --skill swarm-advanced -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/swarm-advanced, .gemini/skills/swarm-advanced, .github/skills/swarm-advanced and .opencode/skills/swarm-advanced in your project.

What does Advanced Swarm Orchestration need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Advanced Swarm Orchestration needs the command-line tools its instructions call (npx, npm and claude). Our summary lists: claude-flow installed globally with npm.

Does Advanced Swarm Orchestration access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: github.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Advanced Swarm Orchestration safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Advanced Swarm Orchestration use?

No licence was found for Advanced Swarm Orchestration or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Advanced Swarm Orchestration use?

About 5.9k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 24k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Advanced Swarm Orchestration?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Advanced Swarm Orchestration: Ruflo Multi-Agent Orchestration (ruvnet/ruflo, 74k stars), Puppetmaster Agent Orchestration (professorpalmer/Puppetmaster, 467 stars), Agent Deck Sessions (artwist-polyakov/polyakov-claude-skills, 208 stars) and Run Wave (jpicklyk/task-orchestrator, 207 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Advanced Swarm Orchestration?

ruvnet (a GitHub user) maintains it in ruvnet/agentic-flow, which has 818 GitHub stars. The repository holds 21 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

Source: ruvnet/agentic-flow on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.