What’s new here

AutoSwarm does not ask you to adopt a new agent. You install it as a skill and a CLI into an agent you already use. That agent becomes the entry point and hands pieces of a task to the agents on your machine, such as Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, Hermes or Grok Build.

What it does

You give a task to your host agent and tell it to use AutoSwarm. According to the README, AutoSwarm picks agents by capability, shares context and memory between them, runs subtasks in parallel, and verifies and merges the results into one answer.

The README lists these agents as supported: Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor, GitHub Copilot CLI, Meta Muse Code, CodeBuddy, Hermes, Nanobot, DeepSeek Harness and Grok Build. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, and it supports local command execution. Delegated work is collected with commands such as wait --any, and a doctor --probe command checks that each provider replies and can resume.

Who it’s for

People who run several agents and keep switching interfaces, repeating information and combining results by hand. The README’s example task is reading 100 documents and summarizing the key approaches and disagreements.

Try it

The README expects you to ask your current agent to install it, but it also gives the manual steps. You need Python 3.10+ and the CLIs of the agents you want to use. Example for Codex:

git clone https://github.com/HKUDS/AutoSwarm.git
cd AutoSwarm
uv tool install --force .
autoswarm setup --host codex

Other host IDs are claude-code, opencode, cursor, copilot, muse, codebuddy, hermes, nanobot, dsh and grok. Without uv, use a dedicated Python 3.10+ environment and python -m pip install .. Then verify a provider. Note that this spends model calls:

autoswarm doctor --agent codex --probe --cwd /path/to/project

Then start a task with a prompt like: Use AutoSwarm to read these 100 documents and summarize the key approaches and disagreements. There is no automatic updater. To update, pull the repo, reinstall, and rerun setup.

How mature is it

About four months old (created 2026-07-01) and still active: last push 2026-10-25, with 100 or more commits in the last 90 days. It has 1,977 stars, 362 forks and 7 contributors. There are 15 open issues and 12 open PRs. There are no tagged releases, so you install from the main branch. The license is MIT. The roadmap in the README lists more integrations, better coordination and better reliability, so expect change.