Essaim
Description
Spawn N coordinated Claude Code agents — orchestrator + behavior catalog. Pairs with @swoofer/promptweave + mcp-coordinator.
Installation
This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no
exact command to give. Open the source below and copy the folder into
~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.
README
essaim
**Spawn N coordinated Claude Code agents on your repo. Pick a preset, the orchestrator does the rest.**
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[Problem](#the-problem) · [How it works](#how-it-works) · [Quickstart](#quickstart) · [Architecture](#architecture) · [BCE](#bce--behavior-composition-engine) · [Phases](#work-stealing-phases) · [Effort](#effort-profiles) · [CLI](#cli) · [Templates](#portable-templates) · [Quota](#anthropic-quota-pre-flight) · [Config](#configuration) · [Related](#related-projects)
The Problem
When multiple developers each use an AI coding agent in parallel on the same repo, things break:
- Regressions — Agent A rewrites a module that Agent B was depending on
- Duplicated work — Two agents implement the same feature from different directions
- Architectural drift — Agents make local decisions that conflict with each other's designs
- Wasted reconciliation time — Developers spend hours untangling what the agents did
Each agent works in isolation. None of them know what the others are doing.
essaim fixes this by giving agents a **shared nervous system** — they announce intentions before coding, conflicts are detected before a single line is written, and agents see each other's actions in real-time to agree on an approach.
How It Works
Developer A Developer B
| |
| announce_work | announce_work
v v
+--------------+ +--------------+
| Agent α | <-- MQTT -->| Agent β |
| (essaim) | push-based | (essaim) |
+--------------+ +--------------+
| MCP HTTRelated Skills
Auto Update
Pull the latest ECC repo changes and reinstall the current managed targets.
Ecc Guide
Navigate ECC's current agents, skills, commands, hooks, install profiles, and docs from the live repository su
Epic Claim
Claim an epic issue, stamp coordination state, and sync local ownership.
Epic Publish
Publish a validated epic update back to the issue and local cache.
Epic Review
Mark epic review requested, approved, or changes requested.
Epic Unblock
Sweep blocked epic issues and reopen anything whose dependencies are closed.