Local-first Python toolkit for parallel Claude and LLM agent orchestration: consensus voting, stigmergy, boss-worker swarms, and benchmarks
README
LLM swarm intelligence toolkit for parallel Claude and LLM agent orchestration.
Deutsch: README_de.md
swarm-ai is a local-first Python toolkit for developers who want to run the same task through multiple LLM instances and merge the results. It focuses on five reusable coordination patterns: parallel chunk processing, boss/worker execution, stigmergy, consensus voting, and specialist routing.
It is not Docker Swarm, not a hosted agent platform, and not a generic "AI swarm" demo. The repository is a small, inspectable toolkit for experimenting with multi-agent LLM orchestration from the command line or from Python.
Use ellmos-ai/swarm-ai when you need the canonical repository name. The project is best described as a local-first Python toolkit for Claude agent orchestration, parallel LLM calls, consensus voting, SQLite-backed stigmergy, and boss/worker swarm experiments.
Useful search phrases:
ellmos-ai swarm-aiClaude agent orchestration Python swarmparallel LLM consensus voting toolkitSQLite stigmergy agent coordinationlocal-first multi-agent LLM orchestrationboss worker LLM agents Pythonswarm-ai is intentionally smaller than enterprise agent platforms such as CrewAI, OpenAI Swarm derivatives, and hosted Swarms-style products. It is meant for inspectable local experiments and reusable orchestration patterns, not for managed deployment, hosted dashboards, or production agent infrastructur