ruvnet-claude-flow

Ruflo

An agent meta-harness for Claude Code and Codex.

📖 RuFlo Explained — Build an AI Team That Plans, Remembers, Tests, and Improves A 14-chapter guide: from the basic idea to a first useful task, then memory, agent teams, plugins, cost and verification.

Agent = Model + Harness. The model writes; the harness gives it tools, memory, loops, sandboxes, and controls so it can actually work. Ruflo is the harness — the execution layer around Claude Code and Codex that adds 100+ specialized agents, coordinated swarms, self-learning memory, federated comms across machines, and enterprise security guardrails. So agents don't just run, they collaborate.

One npx ruflo init gives Claude Code a nervous system: agents self-organize into swarms, learn from every task, remember across sessions, and — with federation — securely talk to agents on other machines without leaking data. You keep writing code. Ruflo handles the coordination.

Self-Learning / Self-Optimizing Agent Architecture

User --> Ruflo (CLI/MCP) --> Router --> Swarm --> Agents --> Memory --> LLM Providers
                          ^                           |
                          +---- Learning Loop <-------+

New to Ruflo? You don't need to learn 314 MCP tools or 26 CLI commands. After init, just use Claude Code normally — the hooks system automatically routes tasks, learns from successful patterns, and coordinates agents in the background.

Claude Flow is now Ruflo — named by rUv, who loves Rust, flow states, and building things that feel inevitable. The "Ru" is the rUv. The "flo" is working until 3am. Underneath, powered by Cognitum.One agentic architecture, running a supercharged Rust-based AI engine, embeddings, memory, and plugin system.

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Quick Start

There are two different install paths with very different surface areas. Pick based on what you need (#1744):

	Claude Code Plugin	CLI install (npx ruflo init)
What it gives you	Slash commands + a few skills + agent definitions per-plugin	Full Ruflo loop — 98 agents, 60+ commands, 30 skills, MCP server, hooks, daemon
Files in your workspace	Zero	.claude/, .claude-flow/, CLAUDE.md, helpers, settings
MCP server registered	Only if ruflo-core is installed (it ships its own .mcp.json) — most other plugins don't	Yes
Hooks installed	No	Yes
Best for	Try a single plugin's commands without committing to the full install	Production use — everything works as documented

Path A — Claude Code Plugins (lite, slash commands only)

# Add the marketplace
/plugin marketplace add ruvnet/ruflo

# Install core + any plugins you need
/plugin install ruflo-core@ruflo
/plugin install ruflo-swarm@ruflo
/plugin install ruflo-rag-memory@ruflo
/plugin install ruflo-neural-trader@ruflo

This adds slash commands and agent definitions. ruflo-core (installed above) does register its own MCP server on install — its tools are callable as mcp__plugin_ruflo-core_ruflo__* (e.g. mcp__plugin_ruflo-core_ruflo__memory_store), not the bare memory_store/swarm_init/agent_spawn names the CLI-track scaffold uses. Other plugins generally don't ship their own MCP server. For the full loop with the CLI-track tool names, use Path B below.

Core & Orchestration

Plugin	What it does
ruflo-core	Foundation — server, health checks, plugin discovery
ruflo-swarm	Coordinate multiple agents as a team
ruflo-autopilot	Let agents run autonomously in a loop
ruflo-loop-workers	Schedule background tasks on a timer
ruflo-workflows	Reusable multi-step task templates
ruflo-federation	Agents on different machines collaborate securely

Memory & Knowledge

Plugin	What it does
ruflo-agentdb	Fast vector database for agent memory
ruflo-rag-memory	Smart retrieval — hybrid search, graph hops, diversity ranking
ruflo-rvf	Save and restore agent memory across sessions
ruflo-ruvector	ruvector — GPU-accelerated search, Graph RAG, 103 tools
ruflo-knowledge-graph	Build and traverse entity relationship maps

Intelligence & Learning

Plugin	What it does
ruflo-intelligence	Agents learn from past successes and get smarter
ruflo-graph-intelligence	Sublinear graph reasoning — PageRank, delta updates, complexity-aware execution (ADR-123)
ruflo-daa	Dynamic agent behavior and cognitive patterns
ruflo-ruvllm	Run local LLMs (Ollama, etc.) with smart routing
ruflo-goals	Break big goals into plans and track progress

Code Quality & Testing

Plugin	What it does
ruflo-testgen	Find missing tests and generate them automatically
ruflo-browser	Automate browser testing with Playwright
ruflo-jujutsu	Analyze git diffs, score risk, suggest reviewers
ruflo-docs	Generate and maintain documentation automatically

Security & Compliance

Plugin	What it does
ruflo-security-audit	Scan for vulnerabilities and CVEs
ruflo-aidefence	Block prompt injection, detect PII, safety scanning

Architecture & Methodology

Plugin	What it does
ruflo-adr	Track architecture decisions with a living record
ruflo-ddd	Scaffold domain-driven design — contexts, aggregates, events
ruflo-sparc	Guided 5-phase development methodology with quality gates
ruflo-metaharness	Grade your agent setup, scan tool configs for security risks, and track changes over time (guide)
ruflo-arena	Competitive ruliology — pit agent strategies against each other in tournaments, hill-climb and co-evolve the winners (ADR-147/148)

DevOps & Observability

Plugin	What it does
ruflo-migrations	Manage database schema changes safely
ruflo-observability	Structured logs, traces, and metrics in one place
ruflo-cost-tracker	Track token usage, set budgets, get cost alerts

Extensibility

Plugin	What it does
ruflo-agent	Run agents — local WASM sandbox (rvagent) + Anthropic Claude Managed Agents (cloud)