Swarm Advisor

The swarm-orchestration skill contains the full technical primitives (Team, Teammate, Task, Inbox, Message). This skill adds the design layer — when to use a swarm, how to structure it, and how to avoid common traps.

Is a Swarm Worth It?

Ask first. Swarms have real overhead: spawn cost, coordination messages, inbox polling, cleanup.

Good fit:

• 3+ independent workstreams that can run in parallel
• Work that naturally divides: research/implement/test, feature-A/feature-B/feature-C
• Long-running tasks where parallelism saves real time
• Pipeline patterns where stage N feeds stage N+1 with clear handoffs