Ruflo

Multi-agent orchestration harness that turns Claude Code into a 100-agent swarm.

Open Source Automation & Agents

What is Ruflo?

Ruflo is an agent harness that wraps Claude Code with swarm coordination, persistent memory, and hundreds of MCP tools. Hooks route tasks automatically while agents share learning across sessions. Formerly known as claude-flow, it is one of the most-starred agent projects on GitHub at around 74k stars.

Key features

  • Swarm coordination with multiple topologies
  • 300+ MCP tools for memory, routing, and security
  • 60+ specialized agent types
  • Self-learning memory across sessions
  • Cross-machine federation
  • Claude Code hooks integration

Pros

  • Enormous capability set out of the box
  • 74k+ stars with relentless development
  • MIT licensed

Cons

  • Tightly coupled to Claude Code
  • Complexity can overwhelm solo users
  • Rebranded from claude-flow — some docs still catching up

Ruflo at a glance

PricingOpen Source
CategoryAutomation & Agents
Platformswindows, macos, linux
Official websitegithub.com
multi-agentswarmclaude-codeorchestrationmcpmemory

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Ruflo FAQs

What is Ruflo?

Ruflo is an agent harness that wraps Claude Code with swarm coordination, persistent memory, and hundreds of MCP tools. Hooks route tasks automatically while agents share learning across sessions. Formerly known as claude-flow, it is one of the most-starred agent projects on GitHub at around 74k stars.

What are the main features of Ruflo?

Ruflo offers Swarm coordination with multiple topologies, 300+ MCP tools for memory, routing, and security, 60+ specialized agent types, Self-learning memory across sessions, Cross-machine federation and Claude Code hooks integration.

How much does Ruflo cost?

Ruflo is open source, so the software itself is free to download, use and self-host. Your only costs are the infrastructure you run it on and any paid services you connect to it.

What are the pros and cons of Ruflo?

Strengths of Ruflo include Enormous capability set out of the box; 74k+ stars with relentless development; MIT licensed. On the downside, Tightly coupled to Claude Code; Complexity can overwhelm solo users; Rebranded from claude-flow — some docs still catching up.