swarm
Health Pass
- License — License: MIT
- Description — Repository has a description
- Active repo — Last push 0 days ago
- Community trust — 16 GitHub stars
Code Pass
- Code scan — Scanned 5 files during light audit, no dangerous patterns found
Permissions Pass
- Permissions — No dangerous permissions requested
This tool is a workspace manager designed to orchestrate parallel development. It registers git repositories, creates isolated worktrees, and runs persistent terminal sessions for multiple coding agents via a CLI or a native GTK desktop app.
Security Assessment
Overall risk: Low.
Based on the light code audit, no dangerous patterns, hardcoded secrets, or excessive permissions were detected. The application natively interacts with git and executes shell commands to manage terminal sessions, but this is its intended and explicitly stated function. While managing agents inherently involves executing code and scripts within those isolated workspaces, the tool itself does not appear to make suspicious outbound network requests or access unauthorized sensitive data.
Quality Assessment
The project is actively maintained, with its most recent push occurring today. It is properly licensed under the standard MIT license. While the community trust footprint is currently small (16 GitHub stars), this is not unusual for an early-stage or niche open-source utility. The provided documentation is clear, and the codebase is transparent regarding its core functions.
Verdict
Safe to use, though users should inherently trust the external coding agents they choose to run within the managed workspaces.
Manage a swarm of coding agents.
Swarm
A workspace manager for parallel development. Register git repositories, spin up isolated worktrees, and run persistent terminal sessions inside them — from the CLI or a native GTK desktop app.
Motivation
Coding agents are most effective when you can run many of them in parallel — one per feature, one per bug fix. But in practice, this quickly turns into chaos. Each agent needs its own copy of the source code so they don't step on each other's changes, and each one runs in its own terminal. Before long, you're drowning in terminal tabs, losing track of which agent is working on what, and manually juggling git branches and directories.
Swarm exists to tame that. It gives you a single place to manage all your repositories, workspaces, and agent sessions — so you can scale up the number of parallel agents without the overhead of keeping it all organized yourself.
How it works
Swarm organizes work into repositories, workspaces, and sessions. A repository is the git repository that holds your project's source code. A workspace is an isolated copy of that source code, backed by a git worktree, where work happens independently without interfering with other workspaces. A session is a persistent terminal environment running inside a workspace — it could be a coding agent, a shell, or any long-running command.
For example, a typical workspace-per-feature workflow looks like this: create a workspace for every feature or bug fix, let a coding agent work on it in a session, submit a pull request, address review comments and iterate — all within the same workspace. When the work is merged to mainline, remove the workspace.
Building
cargo build
Without the GTK UI:
cargo build --no-default-features
Documentation
See MANUAL.md for the full reference.
License
Swarm is available under the MIT license.
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