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Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms

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Re: Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms

#5

Post by AffableSpatula »

engates wrote: post #4

Isn't this pretty much what Ruv has been building for like two years? https://github.com/ruvnet/claude-flow

The difference is that this is tightly integrated into the harness. There's a "delegation mode" (akin to plan mode) that appears to clear out the context for the team lead. The harness appears to be adding system-reminder breadcrumbs into the top of the context to keep the main team lead from drifting, which is much harder to achieve without modifying the harness.

Re: Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms

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wild_pointer wrote: post #6

Listen team lead and the whole team, make this button red.

ha! The default system prompt appears to give the main agent appropriate guidance about only using swarm mode when appropriate (same as entering itself into plan mode). You can further prompt it in your own CLAUDE.md to be even more resistant to using the mode if the task at hand isn't significant enough to warrant it.

Re: Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms

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tom2948329494 wrote: post #2

And… how?

The feature is shipped in the latest builds of claude code, but it's turned off by a feature flag check that phones home to the backend to see if the user's account is meant to have it on. You can just patch out the function in the minified cli.js that does this backend check and you gain access to the feature.

Re: Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms

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Post by estearum »

AffableSpatula wrote: post #5
engates wrote: post #4

Isn't this pretty much what Ruv has been building for like two years? https://github.com/ruvnet/claude-flow

The difference is that this is tightly integrated into the harness. There's a "delegation mode" (akin to plan mode) that appears to clear out the context for the team lead. The harness appears to be adding system-reminder breadcrumbs into the top of the context to keep the main team lead from drifting, which is much harder to achieve without modifying the harness.

It's insane to me that people choose to build anything in the perimeter of Claude Code (et al). The combination of the fairly primitive current state of them and the pace at which they're advancing means there is a lot of very obvious ideas/low-hanging fruit that will soon be executed 100x better by the people who own the core technology.
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