# Orchestrating Swarms

> Master multi-agent orchestration using Claude Code's swarm system. Use when coordinating multiple agents, running parallel code reviews, creating pipeline workflows with dependencies, building self-organizing task queues, or any task benefiting from divide-and-conquer patterns. This facade loads specialist skills for primitives, spawning, operations, and patterns.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-jamie-bitflight-claude-skills-orchestrating-swarms`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Jamie-BitFlight](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/jamie-bitflight)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [Jamie-BitFlight](https://github.com/Jamie-BitFlight)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills/tree/main/plugins/agent-orchestration/skills/orchestrating-swarms

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-jamie-bitflight-claude-skills-orchestrating-swarms
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Claude Code Swarm Orchestration

Master multi-agent orchestration using Claude Code's TeamCreate, SendMessage, TeamDelete, and Agent tools.

This skill is a facade that routes to 4 specialist skills. Load whichever you need.

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## Specialist Skills

### Core Concepts

`Skill(skill: "swarm-primitives")`

What teams, teammates, tasks, and inboxes are. File layouts, team config structure, lifecycle diagrams, message flow sequences.

### Spawning Agents

`Skill(skill: "swarm-spawning")`

How to create agents -- subagent vs teammate decision, built-in agent types (Explore, Plan, general-purpose, Bash, etc.), plugin agent types, spawn backends (in-process, tmux, iterm2), environment variables.

### API Reference

`Skill(skill: "swarm-operations")`

Tool signatures and message schemas -- TeamCreate, SendMessage (direct, broadcast, shutdown, plan approval), TeamDelete, Agent tool parameters. Error handling, graceful shutdown sequence, crashed teammate recovery, debugging.

### Patterns and Recipes

`Skill(skill: "swarm-patterns")`

6 orchestration patterns (parallel specialists, pipeline, swarm, research+implement, plan approval, coordinated refactoring), 3 complete workflows, best practices, quick reference.

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## Quick Start

```mermaid
flowchart TD
    Start([What do you need?]) --> Q1{Your goal?}
    Q1 -->|Understand how swarms work| P[swarm-primitives]
    Q1 -->|Choose agent types or backends| S[swarm-spawning]
    Q1 -->|Look up tool API or message format| O[swarm-operations]
    Q1 -->|Build a workflow from a recipe| R[swarm-patterns]
    Q1 -->|Full reference on everything| All[Load all 4 skills]
```

---

## Minimal Example

```javascript
// 1. Create team
TeamCreate({ team_name: "my-team" })

// 2. Create tasks
TaskCreate({ subject: "Review auth", description: "Review auth module", activeForm: "Reviewing..." })
TaskCreate({ subject: "Review API", description: "Review API endpoints", activeForm: "Reviewing..." })

// 3. Spawn teammates
Agent({ team_name: "my-team", name: "reviewer-1", subagent_type: "general-purpose", prompt: "Claim task #1, review it, send findings to team-lead.", run_in_background: true })
Agent({ team_name: "my-team", name: "reviewer-2", subagent_type: "general-purpose", prompt: "Claim task #2, review it, send findings to team-lead.", run_in_background: true })

// 4. Collect results (messages arrive automatically)

// 5. Shutdown and cleanup
SendMessage({ type: "shutdown_request", recipient: "reviewer-1", content: "Done" })
SendMessage({ type: "shutdown_request", recipient: "reviewer-2", content: "Done" })
// Wait for approvals...
TeamDelete()
```

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SOURCE: Claude Code v2.1.45 -- verified 2026-02-18

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [Jamie-BitFlight](https://github.com/Jamie-BitFlight)
- **Source:** [Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills](https://github.com/Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-jamie-bitflight-claude-skills-orchestrating-swarms
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/jamie-bitflight
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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