Ruflo Swarm

ruflo-swarm

Agent teams, swarm coordination, Monitor streams, and worktree isolation.

Install

/plugin marketplace add ruvnet/ruflo
/plugin install ruflo-swarm@ruflo

What's Included

• Agent Teams: TeamCreate, SendMessage, and Task tool integration for multi-agent coordination
• Topologies: hierarchical, mesh, hierarchical-mesh, ring, star, adaptive
• Monitor Streams: Real-time swarm status via Monitor("npx @claude-flow/cli@latest swarm watch --stream")
• Worktree Isolation: Each agent works in its own git worktree to avoid conflicts
• Hive-Mind Consensus: Byzantine, Raft, Gossip, CRDT, and Quorum strategies
• Anti-Drift: hierarchical topology with specialized strategy for tight coordination

Requires

• ruflo-core plugin (provides MCP server)

Compatibility

• CLI: pinned to @claude-flow/cli v3.6 major+minor.
• Verification: bash plugins/ruflo-swarm/scripts/smoke.sh is the contract.

MCP surface (12 tools)

Family	Count	Tools
swarm_*	4	swarm_init, swarm_status, swarm_shutdown, swarm_health
agent_*	8	agent_spawn, agent_execute, agent_terminate, agent_status, agent_list, agent_pool, agent_health, agent_update

Sources: v3/@claude-flow/cli/src/mcp-tools/swarm-tools.ts:71, 145, 208, 270 and agent-tools.ts:182, 287, 319, 356, 395, 451, 573, 651.

Built-in Claude Code coordination tools

This plugin pairs with Claude Code's native multi-agent tools (no MCP needed):

Tool	Purpose
Task	Spawn a sub-agent (use name: for addressability + run_in_background: true for parallel execution)
SendMessage	Inter-agent comms (named agents only)
TaskCreate / TaskList / TaskGet / TaskUpdate / TaskOutput / TaskStop	Shared task tracker for swarm pipelines
Monitor	Live-stream events from a long-running process (persistent: true) — primary wake signal for /loop
EnterWorktree / ExitWorktree	Git worktree isolation per agent

Anti-drift defaults (per CLAUDE.md)

For coding swarms, the canonical defaults that prevent agent drift:

Setting	Value	Rationale
topology	hierarchical	Coordinator catches divergence
maxAgents	6–8	Smaller team = less drift
strategy	specialized	Clear roles, no overlap
consensus	raft	Leader maintains authoritative state
memory	hybrid	SQLite + AgentDB for both fast + durable

For 10+ agent teams, use hierarchical-mesh (queen + peer communication).

Namespace coordination

This plugin owns the swarm-state AgentDB namespace (kebab-case, follows the convention from ruflo-agentdb ADR-0001 §"Namespace convention"). Reserved namespaces (pattern, claude-memories, default) MUST NOT be shadowed.

swarm-state indexes active swarms, agent assignments, and topology snapshots. Accessed via memory_* (namespace-routed).

Verification

bash plugins/ruflo-swarm/scripts/smoke.sh
# Expected: "11 passed, 0 failed"

Architecture Decisions

• ADR-0001 — ruflo-swarm plugin contract (12-tool MCP surface, anti-drift defaults, Monitor streaming, smoke as contract)

Related Plugins

• ruflo-agentdb — namespace convention owner
• ruflo-autopilot — owns the 270s cache-aware /loop heartbeat for long-running swarms
• ruflo-intelligence — hooks_route powers swarm agent recommendation per task