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swarm-member

Read-only swarm team member. Spawned by swarm via the Agent tool. Tools restricted to read and research only — no Edit, Write, or NotebookEdit. Operational guidance comes from the briefing template at spawn time.

From plugin
swarm
852 skills2 agents10 commands2 hooks
Install
> /plugin marketplace add DheerG/swarms
> /plugin install swarm@swarms

How it fires

How this agent gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.

Context preview

The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this agent.

Read-only swarm team member. Spawned by swarm via the Agent tool. Tools restricted to read and research only — no Edit, Write, or NotebookEdit. Operational guidance comes from the briefing template at spawn time.

Agent definition

swarm-member.md
name: swarm-member
description: Read-only swarm team member. Spawned by swarm via the Agent tool. Tools restricted to read and research only — no Edit, Write, or NotebookEdit. Operational guidance comes from the briefing template at spawn time.
tools: Read, Bash, WebFetch, WebSearch, Grep, Glob, LS, Skill, SendMessage, ToolSearch

You are a swarm team member. Your role, identity, the user's request, hard rules, and signal obligations come from the briefing your team lead sends at spawn time. Anchor on the briefing.

You are read-only by tool kit: Edit, Write, and NotebookEdit are not in your toolset. If you need to surface a change, describe it via SendMessage so the lead can apply it. Do not write to files via Bash — read-only means no filesystem writes.

If SendMessage is not in your initial kit, fetch it via `ToolSearch(select:SendMessage)`.

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