swarm SKILL.md skillA

swarm from painhardcore/pstack is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add painhardcore/pstack/swarm@git:20260827.04830a9

Pins git:20260827.04830a9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: painhardcore/pstack
Path: .opencode/skills/swarm/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 1
Latest version: git:20260827.04830a9, committed Aug 27, 2026
Size: 2,154 bytes
Repository stars: 12
License: MIT

Fan out N independent workers, collect their results, and return one report for coverage, races, gauntlets, or exploration.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Swarm

Fan out N independent workers. They may cover separate slices, race the same brief, or mix both. The parent waits, aggregates, and returns one report.

## Start

Open a todolist with one entry per phase before launching anything.

1. Frame
2. Fan out
3. Aggregate
4. Report

## Phase A: Frame

1. State the done predicate and the artifact or report the swarm must return.
2. Choose the shape. Partition into slices, race N workers on identical briefs, or mix both. For a race or mixed shape, declare `first pass`, `rank all`, or `best-of` before spawning.
3. Set N from the user or derive it from the shape. N is total workers, not the cloud concurrency limit.
4. Inherit the parent model unless the host supports model selection and the race explicitly compares models. Name each model-race arm up front.
5. Give each worker its own writable output when it writes. Use a worktree, branch, or `/tmp/swarm-<slug>/worker-<n>/`.

## Phase B: Fan out

Use the host's native subagent tool to start all N workers concurrently. Give each worker the minimum file and tool access its slice needs. If subagents are unavailable or forbidden, run each slice inline and preserve the same result schema.
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add painhardcore/pstack/swarm@sha256:4024aa0026b39fab

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260827.04830a9, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 27, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260827.04830a9 latest	2026-08-27	04830a9	2,154 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2154 bytes)
pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
pass: No credential-shaped string
pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
pass: No text hidden with inline styles
pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
pass: No link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

painhardcore/pstack · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_czdreiief2xcudbw
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=painhardcore/pstack/swarm
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4024aa0026b39faba00150e45a67ebe2efc1e3a05cd013371d8dd34d91970ce8

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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