Agent skill
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.
Install this agent skill to your Project
npx add-skill https://github.com/Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills/tree/main/.claude/skills/orchestrating-swarms
SKILL.md
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.
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.
Quick Start
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
// 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()
SOURCE: Claude Code v2.1.45 -- verified 2026-02-18
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