OpenSwarm
Multi‑Agent Claude CLI Orchestrator for Linear/GitHub
Details
- External ID
- 47160980
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- OpenSwarm
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Feb. 26, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 34
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7580862533692723
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I built OpenSwarm because I wanted an autonomous “AI dev team” that can actually plug into my real workflow instead of running toy tasks. OpenSwarm orchestrates multiple Claude Code CLI instances as agents to work on real Linear issues. It: • pulls issues from Linear and runs a Worker/Reviewer/Test/Documenter pipeline • uses LanceDB + multilingual-e5 embeddings for long‑term memory and context reuse • builds a simple code knowledge graph for impact analysis • exposes everything through a Discord bot (status, dispatch, scheduling, logs) • can auto‑iterate on existing PRs and monitor long‑running jobs Right now it’s powering my own solo dev workflow (trading infra, LLM tools, other projects). It’s still early, so there are rough edges and a lot of TODOs around safety, scaling, and better task decomposition. I’d love feedback on: • what feels missing for this to be useful to other teams • failure modes you’d be worried about in autonomous code agents • ideas for better memory/knowledge graph use in real‑world repos Repo: https://github.com/Intrect-io/OpenSwarm Happy to answer questions and hear brutal feedback.
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI agent frameworks and developer tools
- Vertical
- —
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- multi-agent claude orchestrator for linear and github
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is an automation script that connects Linear webhooks and API calls to Claude Code CLI processes.
Discussion
17 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: OpenClaw with Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite, Claude Code CLI, Dagger with Gemini-flash, CUE and ADK-Go
Concerns raised: Context drift cascading between agents in the chain, Agents miss quality gates like docstrings and edge cases, Agents hallucinate and require babysitting to prevent drift, Unclear if LanceDB memory actually improves repeated task performance, Too many agent orchestrators being built—sustainability and maintenance questions
Feature requests: Support for multiple reviewer models (Codex, Aider) to catch more issues, Broader provider compatibility beyond Claude, Consensus/democracy policy engine between agents, Explicit confidence-halt mechanism injected into worker context, Version control for structured log schema across runs
Competitors
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Attention rank: #136 of 541 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 120 days after the earliest competitor.
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