Swarm Coding

Swarm Coding divides complex engineering objectives among specialized subagents structured in a clear organization chart. This divide-and-conquer strategy guarantees context isolation, prevents cross-domain contamination, and accelerates delivery by keeping each subagent's scope narrow and exclusive.

[!NOTE] In this guide, the terms "agent" and "subagent" are used interchangeably.

⚡ Core Principles & Operational Rules

1. Invocation Syntax & Budget Parsing

Parse the user's prompt to extract the target Agent Budget / Degree of Parallelism (DOP):

• swarm-coding(N) or /swarm-coding(N) (e.g., swarm-coding(8), /swarm-coding(12))
• /swarm-coding <DOP> or /swarm <DOP> (e.g., /swarm-coding 10, /swarm 6)
• /swarm-coding dop: <number> or /swarm-coding budget <number> (e.g., /swarm-coding dop: 8, /swarm-coding budget 6)
• Natural language budgets (e.g., "swarm this refactor across 8 agents", "run a coding swarm with a budget of 12")
• If no number is provided, default to 10. If DOP <= 1, fall back to direct single-agent execution.