Launch and watch Guaardvark's Swarm Orchestrator: parallel coding agents, each in its own git worktree, working a markdown plan and merging back deterministically. Use when the user wants several agents on one codebase at once, says "swarm this", or asks about a running swarm, worktrees, or merge status.
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 with Guaardvark
Read `setup` first; needs the `swarm` plugin (`POST /api/plugins/swarm/start`).
`B=${GUAARDVARK_URL:-http://localhost:5000}`. Status is also the MCP tool `swarm_status`.
## 1. Write the plan file
A markdown file in the target repo. Each `##` heading is one task. Structured fields are optional;
the parser infers file scope from paths in the prose when they are absent:
```markdown
# Plan: split the settings page
## Extract the GPU panel
- files: frontend/src/pages/SettingsPage.jsx, frontend/src/components/settings/GpuPanel.jsx
- backend: claude
Move the GPU section into its own component with the same props.
## Add a test for the panel
- files: frontend/src/__tests__/GpuPanel.test.jsx
- depends_on: Extract the GPU panel
```
`backend` / `assign to` picks the agent backend (Claude Code, or a local Cline/OpenClaw agent on
Ollama in Flight Mode). Tasks that touch the same files should depend on each other; the parser
warns about conflicts.
## 2. Launch
```bash
curl -s -X POST $B/api/swarm/launch -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{
"plan_path": "/abs/path/repo/docs/plan.md", "repo_path": "/abs/path/repo",
…
The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260911.973d1bc, 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.
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_enjkwgmc7hhhdumc
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=guaardvark/guaardvark/swarm
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f8abeed028415f6a22f7386daa9e1facfcd6b3841759fab92baa838149786375
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