swarms

Overview

Swarms, The Enterprise-Grade Production-Ready Multi-Agent Orchestration Framework

Swarms is the most reliable, scalable, and adaptive multi-agent orchestration framework available today. We provide a comprehensive suite of production-ready, prebuilt multi-agent architectures, including sequential, concurrent, and hierarchical systems. Additionally, Swarms offers backward compatibility with leading agent frameworks and interoperability with protocols such as MCP, x402, skills, and much more.

Install

Using pip

$ pip3 install -U swarms

Using uv (Recommended)

uv is a fast Python package installer and resolver, written in Rust.

$ uv pip install swarms

Using poetry

$ poetry add swarms

From source

# Clone the repository
$ git clone https://github.com/kyegomez/swarms.git
$ cd swarms
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Environment Configuration

Learn more about the environment configuration here

OPENAI_API_KEY=""
WORKSPACE_DIR="agent_workspace"
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=""
GROQ_API_KEY=""

Your First Agent

An Agent is the fundamental building block of a swarm—an autonomous entity powered by an LLM + Tools + Memory. Learn more Here

from swarms import Agent

# Initialize a new agent
agent = Agent(
    model_name="gpt-5.4", # Specify the LLM
    max_loops="auto",              # Set the number of interactions
    interactive=True,         # Enable interactive mode for real-time feedback
)

# Run the agent with a task
agent.run("What are the key benefits of using a multi-agent system?")

Autonomous Agent with max_loops="auto"

Setting max_loops="auto" lets the agent decide for itself when the task is complete — it keeps reasoning and acting until it reaches a stopping condition, rather than halting after a fixed number of iterations. This is the recommended mode for open-ended, multi-step tasks where the number of steps isn't known in advance.

from swarms import Agent

agent = Agent(
    agent_name="Autonomous-Research-Agent",
    agent_description="An autonomous agent that conducts multi-step research independently.",
    system_prompt=(
        "You are an autonomous research agent. Break down complex tasks into steps, "
        "execute each step thoroughly, and signal completion only when the full task is done."
    ),
    model_name="gpt-5.4",
    max_loops="auto",       # Agent decides when it's done — no fixed iteration cap
    autosave=True,
    verbose=True,
)

# The agent will keep looping — planning, executing, and reflecting — until it
# determines the task is fully complete.
result = agent.run(
    "Research the current state of quantum computing, identify the top three "
    "hardware approaches, and summarize the key challenges each faces."
)
print(result)

When to use max_loops="auto":

• Open-ended research or analysis tasks
• Tasks that require iterative refinement (e.g., write → review → revise)
• Any workflow where the number of steps depends on intermediate results

When to use a fixed max_loops value:

• Latency-sensitive or cost-sensitive production pipelines
• Tasks with a well-defined, bounded number of steps

Your First Swarm: Multi-Agent Collaboration

A Swarm consists of multiple agents working together. This simple example creates a two-agent workflow for researching and writing a blog post. Learn More About SequentialWorkflow

from swarms import Agent, SequentialWorkflow

# Agent 1: The Researcher
researcher = Agent(
    agent_name="Researcher",
    system_prompt="Your job is to research the provided topic and provide a detailed summary.",
    model_name="gpt-5.4",
)

# Agent 2: The Writer
writer = Agent(
    agent_name="Writer",
    system_prompt="Your job is to take the research summary and write a beautiful, engaging blog post about it.",
    model_name="gpt-5.4",
)

# Create a sequential workflow where the researcher's output feeds into the writer's input
workflow = SequentialWorkflow(agents=[researcher, writer])

# Run the workflow on a task
final_post = workflow.run("The history and future of artificial intelligence")
print(final_post)

Available Multi-Agent Architectures

swarms provides a variety of powerful, pre-built multi-agent architectures enabling you to orchestrate agents in various ways. Choose the right structure for your specific problem to build efficient and reliable production systems.

Learn more about all of the 60+ Multi-Agent Structures we have available here

SequentialWorkflow

A SequentialWorkflow executes tasks in a strict order, forming a pipeline where each agent builds upon the work