claude-swarm

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Claude Swarm demonstrates a cost-tiered orchestration pattern: expensive reasoning is confined to planning and integration review while cheap, well-specified execution runs on Haiku in parallel. Dependency-ordered waves via topological sorting, file locking to avoid write collisions, and a hard dollar budget with per-agent accounting make parallel agent runs economically controllable. A quality gate scores the combined output and can reject it, and sessions record to JSONL for replay. Built for the February 2026 Cerebral Valley x Anthropic hackathon, it has seen little development since, but the pattern it demonstrates influenced later planner-worker-review harness designs.