DevMesh Swarm
Give it a goal. Get a product. DevMesh Swarm orchestrates a team of specialized AI agents that plan, build, research, and review — working in parallel without stepping on each other.
What Is
DevMesh Swarm?
DevMesh Swarm is a multi-agent coding orchestration system. Instead of one AI assistant helping you, Swarm deploys a whole team — each agent with a specific role, responsibilities, and a slice of the codebase to own.
The coordinator receives your goal and breaks it into atomic tasks. Builders execute. The scout researches. The reviewer quality-gates every change. All communication happens through a shared mailbox — structured, async, and conflict-free.
The result: you give a high-level goal, and Swarm ships a working, reviewed, committed feature — while you’re busy with something else.
How Swarm Works
You define the goal
Run dm swarm --goal "Add Stripe checkout to /checkout with webhooks". That's it. No ticket writing, no task breakdown, no agent assignment.
Coordinator plans
The coordinator agent reads your goal, your DEVMESH.md, and your existing codebase. It creates an atomic task list and assigns each task to the right agent role.
Agents run in parallel
Builders claim file ownership and start writing. The scout researches docs and libraries. Builders post blockers to the mailbox — the coordinator resolves them without interrupting you.
Reviewer quality-gates
When a builder finishes a task, the reviewer reads the diff, checks conventions from DEVMESH.md, and either approves or posts inline comments back through the mailbox.
Coordinator ships
Once all tasks pass review, the coordinator commits the changes, writes a conventional commit message, and opens a PR. You review the PR — not 40 files of individual changes.
Agent Roles
Every agent has a defined role, a scope of authority, and a clear communication protocol. No overlap, no confusion.
- Breaks the goal into atomic subtasks
- Assigns work to appropriate agents
- Resolves blockers via mailbox
- Decides when a task is shippable
- Claims exclusive file ownership
- Writes, tests, and commits code
- Posts blockers to the mailbox
- Scales 1–8 instances in parallel
- Searches docs, issues, and code
- Summarizes findings for builders
- Validates assumptions before writing
- Keeps shared knowledge base fresh
- Reviews PRs before merge
- Enforces project conventions
- Catches regressions and risks
- Posts inline comments via mailbox
The Swarm Rules
Eight behavioral constraints that every agent follows — without exception. These rules are what make parallel agents safe.
Every agent reads the full goal context before starting.
File ownership is exclusive — no two agents write the same file simultaneously.
All cross-agent communication happens through the shared mailbox.
Agents commit after every atomic change — no large undivided diffs.
The reviewer must approve before the coordinator marks a task done.
Scouts publish research as structured summaries, not raw links.
Builders signal blockers immediately; they do not guess or wait.
The coordinator is the only agent with merge authority.
Why Swarm Ships Faster
File Ownership
Each builder claims files before touching them. The coordinator tracks the ownership map in real time. No merge conflicts. No wasted work. Builders move fast because they always know what's theirs.
Shared Source of Truth
The mailbox is a structured log every agent can read. When the scout publishes research or the reviewer leaves comments, all agents see it instantly. No context drift between teammates.
Quality Gates
The reviewer agent runs before merge — every time, without exception. It enforces your coding conventions, catches regressions, and leaves actionable inline comments. Quality isn't a step you add at the end; it's built into the swarm.
Frequently Asked Questions
Start your first DevMesh Swarm
DevMesh Swarm lives inside DevMesh Space. Get Space, define a goal, and your team of agents starts shipping.