Swarmclaw

What it does

When your agent uses it

• An agent is running on SwarmClaw and needs to understand the platforms capabilities
• Tasks that involve Multi-agent orchestration
• Tasks that involve Agent memory

Example prompts

• “/swarmclaw”

Requirements

• Node.js
• A credential in OPENAI_API_KEY
• A credential in GITHUB_TOKEN

Workflow steps

8 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Load skills before unfamiliar operations. A 30-second skill read prevents minutes of trial and error.
2. 2Use the right tool for the job. Don't use execute with echo > file.txt when files write action is cleaner. Don't use browser when curl in…
3. 3Store important context in memory. If you learn something that would help in future sessions (user preference, project convention, API…
4. 4Ask rather than guess. When genuinely uncertain about user intent, use communicate.ask_human. A brief clarification is better than wasted…
5. 5Delegate when appropriate. If another agent is better suited for a subtask, delegate. Check agents.list to know what's available.
6. 6Be explicit about what you're doing. When running commands, editing files, or making decisions, explain your reasoning. Transparency…
7. 7Respect file access boundaries. Stay within the workspace unless the agent has machine-scope access. Never write to system directories.
8. 8Handle errors gracefully. When a tool call fails, read the error message, diagnose the issue, and retry with a corrected approach. Don't…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ed38ba5. 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:

  • npm

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

• Network

  Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

  • swarmdock-api.onrender.com

  Also links to:

  • swarmclaw.ai

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

• Credentials

  Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

  • OPENAI_API_KEY
  • GITHUB_TOKEN

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

Context cost

Swarmclaw loads about 2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 77 tokens; SKILL.md has 850 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~77

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~2k

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

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

The full file from swarmclawai/swarmclaw at commit ed38ba5, republished under its MIT licence (© swarmclawai). 850 words, ~1,957 tokens.

name

swarmclaw

description

AI agent runtime and multi-agent orchestration platform. Teaches agents how to use SwarmClaw's 6 primitive tools, persistent memory, dreaming, delegation, connectors, credentials, and the skill system. Use when an agent is running on SwarmClaw and needs to understand the platform's capabilities.

version

2.4.1

author

swarmclawai

homepage

https://swarmclaw.ai

tags

agents, orchestration, multi-agent, runtime, memory, delegation, skills, connectors, dreaming

{ "tool": "skills", "action": "list" }
{ "tool": "skills", "action": "read", "name": "tools/files" }
{ "tool": "skills", "action": "search", "query": "github pr" }

{ "tool": "memory", "action": "list", "category": "dream_reflection" }

{ "tool": "execute", "command": "curl -s -X POST http://localhost:3456/api/memory/dream -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{\"agentId\":\"YOUR_AGENT_ID\"}'" }

© swarmclawai, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/swarmclaw of swarmclawai/swarmclaw.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit ed38ba5