Choosing Swarm Patterns

If you're building multi-agent systems with Agent Relay, this is the pattern reference you'll want open. It covers all 24 swarm patterns the engine supports, from the core 10 (fan-out, pipeline, hub-spoke, consensus, mesh, handoff, cascade, dag, debate, hierarchical) to 14 specialized ones like map-reduce and red-team. The decision framework is genuinely helpful for picking between them, and crucially, the YAML examples match the actual API surface. One caveat: hierarchical currently resolves to the same single-level topology as hub-spoke despite the name implying multi-level trees. Best used as a reference when you're staring at a coordination problem and need to know which pattern name to drop into that swarm.pattern field.

Install to Claude Code

npx -y skills add agentworkforce/relay --skill choosing-swarm-patterns --agent claude-code