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An OpenSwarm-style team: /swarm hands one request to specialist agents (research, data analysis, slides, documents, images, video), shows their progress live…

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v0.2.4no licenseupdated 2026-10-11FishyWeed/Claude-Toolkit/plugins/swarm
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Preview · a replayed session in a sandbox
claude · ~/work/app · swarm
│ ┃ Swarm ✕ › fix the failing auth test and add an audit log call │ ┃ ● 0 running ✓ 0 done ✗ 0 failed │ ┃ ⏺ Read(src/auth.ts) │ ┃ No swarm agents yet. Run /swarm with what ⎿ Read 6 lines │ ┃ you want made. ⏺ Update(src/auth.ts) │ ⎿ Added 2 lines, removed 1 line │ ⏺ Bash(bun test) │ ⎿ 3 pass, 1 fail │ │ ● Done. refresh now rejects expired claims and logs an audit event. │ │ ✻ Worked for 42s · done 4:20 PM │ │ › /swarm-panel │ ⎿ swarm: Swarm panel opened. │ │ ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── › ? for shortcuts

Draws

Pane · Swarm
● 0 running ✓ 0 done ✗ 0 failed No swarm agents yet. Run /swarm with what you want made.
README

Swarm

An OpenSwarm-style team for Claude Code, modelled on VRSEN/OpenSwarm. Type one request: Claude plans it, hands the work to specialist agents (in parallel where it can), checks every deliverable, and collects them in one folder with a gallery page.

/swarm a briefing on US home battery storage for homeowners: a 7-slide deck, a one-page executive summary, a price-trend chart and a 20-second teaser video

What you get

swarm-output/2026-10-11-home-batteries/
  index.html            ← open this: every deliverable with previews
  manifest.json         what was asked, who made what, anything that needs you
  research.md           cited research brief
  charts/*.png          themed charts      analysis/  findings + the script
  slides/deck.html      present in a browser (arrow keys, F for full screen)
  slides/deck.pptx      PowerPoint, with speaker notes
  slides/deck.pdf
  docs/*.docx  *.pdf    Word and PDF
  images/*.png          illustrations
  video/video.mp4       slideshow video (+ .srt captions)

Everything in one run shares a theme: ocean (default), paper, midnight, forest or ember.

The team

AgentMakesNeeds
researcherCited research brief with a key-figures table—
data-analystCharts styled to the theme, findings, the analysis script—
slides-designerHTML deck + PPTX + PDF, checked slide by slide—
docs-writerWord + PDF documents, checked by eye—
image-makerAI images with a key; otherwise clean drawn SVG/PNG illustrationsOPENROUTER_API_KEY for AI images
video-makerSlideshow/explainer videos with pans, crossfades, captions, music; clip editsffmpeg; FAL_KEY / GOOGLE_API_KEY / OPENAI_API_KEY for AI footage

PDFs and previews are rendered with Microsoft Edge or Chrome, headless.

The panel

A Swarm panel opens when the first specialist starts: one row per specialist, colour-coded, with its task, elapsed time, step count and what it is doing right now. c clears finished rows; /swarm-panel reopens it.

How it is built

  • skills/swarm/SKILL.md — the orchestrator: plan, waves, briefs, quality checks, gallery.
  • agents/*.md — the six specialists.
  • skills/swarm/kit/ — swarm_kit, the shared builders (decks, documents, videos, previews, gallery, doctor). Installed into its own Python environment at ~/.claude/swarm/.venv by skills/swarm/scripts/setup.py, which /swarm runs on every call (it does nothing when already current).
  • hooks/register.tsx — the progress panel.

Check what this machine can do:

python skills/swarm/scripts/setup.py
~/.claude/swarm/.venv/Scripts/python -m swarm_kit doctor

Install

/plugin marketplace add C:\Users\Admin\Documents\Claude\Mods\swarm
/plugin install swarm@swarm-mods

Develop

claude plugin validate .
claude plugin test .                                   # the panel
~/.claude/swarm/.venv/Scripts/python skills/swarm/kit/tests/test_kit.py   # every builder
Source 2 files
hooks/register.tsx 196 lines
1import { atom, read, update } from 'claude-code'
2import type { EngineInterface, Register, Timer } from 'claude-code'
3
4import type { RunStatus, SwarmRun } from '../types'
5
6const PANE = 'swarm'
7const TITLE = 'Swarm'
8const PREFIX = 'swarm:'
9
10const runs = atom({ plugin: 'swarm', key: 'runs' } as const, [] as SwarmRun[])
11const tick = atom({ plugin: 'swarm', key: 'tick' } as const, 0)
12
13// Each specialist keeps one colour, so a glance tells who is doing what.
14const AGENT_STYLE: Record<string, { label: string; color: string }> = {
15  researcher: { label: 'Research', color: 'suggestion' },
16  'data-analyst': { label: 'Data', color: 'merged' },
17  'slides-designer': { label: 'Slides', color: 'claude' },
18  'docs-writer': { label: 'Docs', color: 'planMode' },
19  'image-maker': { label: 'Images', color: 'autoAccept' },
20  'video-maker': { label: 'Video', color: 'warning' },
21}
22const agentStyle = (agent: string) => AGENT_STYLE[agent] ?? { label: agent, color: 'subtle' }
23
24const STATUS_STYLE: Record<RunStatus, { glyph: string; color: string }> = {
25  running: { glyph: '●', color: 'warning' },
26  done: { glyph: '✓', color: 'success' },
27  failed: { glyph: '✗', color: 'error' },
28}
29
30const basename = (path: string) => path.split(/[\\/]/).filter(Boolean).pop() ?? path
31
32/** A few words for what a tool call does, from its arguments. */
33function describe(e: Record<string, unknown>): string {
34  const tool = String(e.tool ?? '')
35  const str = (key: string) => (typeof e[key] === 'string' ? (e[key] as string) : '')
36  if (str('file_path')) return `${tool} ${basename(str('file_path'))}`
37  if (tool === 'Bash' || tool === 'PowerShell') return str('description') || str('command').slice(0, 60)
38  if (str('query')) return `${tool} "${str('query').slice(0, 50)}"`
39  if (str('url')) {
40    const host = /^[a-z]+:\/\/([^/]+)/i.exec(str('url'))?.[1]
41    return `${tool} ${host ?? str('url').slice(0, 50)}`
42  }
43  if (str('skill')) return `Skill ${str('skill')}`
44  if (str('pattern')) return `${tool} ${str('pattern').slice(0, 50)}`
45  return tool
46}
47
48function formatElapsed(ms: number): string {
49  const total = Math.max(0, Math.round(ms / 1000))
50  const m = Math.floor(total / 60)
51  const s = total % 60
52  return m > 0 ? `${m}m ${String(s).padStart(2, '0')}s` : `${s}s`
53}
54
55// Redraws elapsed times once a second while something runs; stops when all are finished.
56let ticker: Timer | undefined
57
58async function keepTicking($: EngineInterface) {
59  const anyRunning = (await read($, runs)).some(r => r.status === 'running')
60  if (anyRunning && !ticker) {
61    ticker = $.clock.every(1000, () => void onTick($))
62  }
63}
64
65async function onTick($: EngineInterface) {
66  await update($, tick, n => n + 1)
67  const list = await read($, runs)
68  if (!list.some(r => r.status === 'running')) {
69    ticker?.cancel()
70    ticker = undefined
71  }
72}
73
74async function patch($: EngineInterface, match: (r: SwarmRun) => boolean, fn: (r: SwarmRun) => SwarmRun) {
75  await update($, runs, list => list.map(r => (match(r) ? fn(r) : r)))
76}
77
78export const register: Register = on => {
79  on('session.start', async ($, e, next) => {
80    const result = await next(e)
81    await $.command.register({ name: 'swarm-panel', description: 'Show the swarm progress panel' })
82    return result
83  })
84
85  on('command.run', { command: 'swarm-panel' }, async $ => {
86    await $.ui.open({ id: PANE, title: TITLE })
87    return { text: 'Swarm panel opened.' }
88  })
89
90  // A specialist starts: add its row and bring the panel up.
91  on('agent.spawn', async ($, e, next) => {
92    if (!e.subagentType.startsWith(PREFIX)) return next(e)
93    const run: SwarmRun = {
94      id: e.tool_use_id,
95      agent: e.subagentType.slice(PREFIX.length),
96      description: e.description,
97      status: 'running',
98      startedAt: await $.clock.now(),
99      tools: 0,
100      lastAction: 'starting',
101    }
102    await update($, runs, list => [...list.filter(r => r.id !== run.id), run].slice(-50))
103    void $.ui.open({ id: PANE, title: TITLE })
104    await keepTicking($)
105    const started = await next(e)
106    if ('deny' in started && started.deny !== undefined) {
107      const at = await $.clock.now()
108      await patch($, r => r.id === run.id, r => ({ ...r, status: 'failed', endedAt: at, lastAction: started.deny ?? 'refused' }))
109    } else if (started.agentId) {
110      await patch($, r => r.id === run.id, r => ({ ...r, agentId: started.agentId }))
111    }
112    return started
113  }).catch((_$, e, next) => next(e))
114
115  // Its tool calls: count them and show the latest.
116  on('tool.call', async ($, e, next) => {
117    if (e.agentId) {
118      const list = await read($, runs)
119      if (list.some(r => r.agentId === e.agentId)) {
120        const action = describe(e as unknown as Record<string, unknown>)
121        await patch($, r => r.agentId === e.agentId, r => ({ ...r, tools: r.tools + 1, lastAction: action, status: 'running', endedAt: undefined }))
122        await keepTicking($)
123      }
124    }
125    return next(e)
126  }).catch((_$, e, next) => next(e))
127
128  // Its loop ends: done, or failed with the reason.
129  on('turn.complete', async ($, e, next) => {
130    const result = await next(e)
131    if (e.agentId) {
132      const status: RunStatus = e.reason === 'answer' ? 'done' : 'failed'
133      const at = await $.clock.now()
134      const why = e.reason === 'answer' ? 'finished' : e.reason
135      await patch($, r => r.agentId === e.agentId, r => ({ ...r, status, endedAt: at, lastAction: status === 'done' ? r.lastAction : why }))
136    }
137    return result
138  }).catch((_$, e, next) => next(e))
139
140  on('ui.render', { component: 'Pane', requestId: PANE }, async ($, e) => {
141    const { Box, Text, Button } = $.ui.resolve(e)
142    const list = await read($, runs)
143    await read($, tick)
144    const now = await $.clock.now()
145    const counts = { running: 0, done: 0, failed: 0 }
146    for (const r of list) counts[r.status]++
147    const room = Math.max(1, Math.floor(((e.viewport?.rows ?? 30) - 4) / 3))
148
149    return (
150      <Box flexDirection="column" gap={1}>
151        <Box flexDirection="row" gap={2} flexWrap="wrap" alignItems="center">
152          <Text color="warning">● {counts.running} running</Text>
153          <Text color="success">✓ {counts.done} done</Text>
154          <Text color={counts.failed > 0 ? 'error' : 'inactive'}>✗ {counts.failed} failed</Text>
155          {counts.done + counts.failed > 0 && (
156            <Button
157              key="clear"
158              label="Clear finished"
159              hotkey="c"
160              dimColor
161              onPress={() => update($, runs, all => all.filter(r => r.status === 'running'))}
162            />
163          )}
164        </Box>
165        {list.length === 0 && <Text dimColor>No swarm agents yet. Run /swarm with what you want made.</Text>}
166        {list.slice(-room).map(r => {
167          const who = agentStyle(r.agent)
168          const st = STATUS_STYLE[r.status]
169          const elapsed = formatElapsed((r.endedAt ?? now) - r.startedAt)
170          return (
171            <Box key={r.id} flexDirection="column">
172              <Box flexDirection="row" gap={1}>
173                <Text color={st.color} bold>
174                  {st.glyph}
175                </Text>
176                <Text color={who.color} bold>
177                  {who.label}
178                </Text>
179                <Text wrap="truncate-end">{r.description}</Text>
180              </Box>
181              <Box flexDirection="row" gap={1} paddingLeft={2}>
182                <Text dimColor>
183                  {elapsed} · {r.tools === 1 ? '1 step' : `${r.tools} steps`} ·
184                </Text>
185                <Text color={r.status === 'failed' ? 'error' : undefined} dimColor={r.status !== 'failed'} wrap="truncate-end">
186                  {r.lastAction}
187                </Text>
188              </Box>
189            </Box>
190          )
191        })}
192      </Box>
193    )
194  })
195}
196
types/index.d.ts 30 lines
1export type RunStatus = 'running' | 'done' | 'failed'
2
3export type SwarmRun = {
4  /** The Agent tool call that started it. */
5  id: string
6  /** The subagent's loop id, once started; its tool calls carry it. */
7  agentId?: string
8  /** The specialist, without the plugin prefix: `researcher`, `slides-designer`, ... */
9  agent: string
10  /** The Agent call's short description of the task. */
11  description: string
12  status: RunStatus
13  startedAt: number
14  endedAt?: number
15  /** Tool calls the specialist has made so far. */
16  tools: number
17  /** What it did last, e.g. `Write slides/deck.json`. */
18  lastAction: string
19}
20
21declare module 'claude-code' {
22  interface PluginState {
23    swarm: {
24      runs: SwarmRun[]
25      /** Bumped every second while a run is going, so elapsed times redraw. */
26      tick: number
27    }
28  }
29}
30