swarm_skill

Overview

This skill provides a compatibility alias named "swarm" that routes invocations to the Team skill's staged pipeline. It preserves the same semantics and behavior as the Team skill while offering a familiar name for workflows built around the concept of a coordinated swarm of agents. Use it when you want the same multi-agent orchestration under the "swarm" command surface.

How this skill works

Swarm forwards any invocation to the Team skill with identical arguments, so all orchestration, agent routing, and staged-pipeline logic are handled by the Team implementation. You can pass an explicit agent count and type or just a task description; the Team pipeline receives and executes the request. Because swarm is a compatibility facade, it does not duplicate logic but acts as a stable alias to the Team orchestration layer.

When to use it

• When you already use the "swarm" command in scripts or docs and want compatibility with the Team orchestration.
• When you need coordinated, parallel work across N agents using the Team staged pipeline.
• When you want to specify agent count and role type succinctly for a shared task list.
• When integrating with Claude Code workflows that expect a swarm-style command surface.
• When you need a simple alias to avoid changing existing automation that targets "swarm".

Best practices

• Pass the agent count and type explicitly for predictable routing (e.g., N:agent-type "task").
• Keep task descriptions concise and action-oriented to improve agent coordination and outcomes.
• Rely on the Team skill documentation for details about staging, handoffs, and conflict resolution.
• Use swarm for compatibility only; consult Team behavior when debugging orchestration issues.
• Instrument calls in automation to capture which staged steps and agents executed each task.

Example use cases

• Run 5 review agents on a codebase: /oh-my-claudecode:swarm 5:reviewer "audit auth module for security issues"
• Kick off a mixed-role swarm for triage and fixes: /oh-my-claudecode:swarm 3:triage "classify and assign incoming bug reports"
• Maintain backward-compatible CI scripts that currently invoke the swarm alias.
• Quickly parallelize a documentation task across multiple writer agents using the alias.
• Experiment with multi-agent strategies without changing existing team-oriented automation.