# mcp-swarm

> MCP server for orchestrating parallel Claude agent workloads via Docker containers

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/mcp-swarm/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://stiege.github.io/swarm-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/stiege/swarm-mcp/issues
- version: 0.1.1
- protocols: mcp
- tags: agents, ai, claude, docker, mcp, orchestration, parallel
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:mcp-swarm

### Description (declared)

<!-- mcp-name: io.github.stiege/mcp-swarm -->
# swarm-mcp

**Orchestrate parallel Claude agent workloads via Docker containers.**

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swarm-mcp is an MCP server that lets your Claude session spawn other Claude agents — each in an isolated Docker container — and compose their results using functional combinators. Instead of one agent doing everything, you describe the work as `run`, `par`, `map`, `chain`, `reduce`, and `pipeline` calls, and swarm-mcp handles container lifecycle, resource scheduling, and result plumbing. The agent outputs are lazy refs (metadata on the wire, text on disk) so you never blow up the MCP protocol with megabytes of agent output.

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## Why swarm-mcp?

- **True Docker isolation per agent.** Every agent gets its own container with its own filesystem, network policy, memory limit, and CPU quota. No shared state leaks between agents. A rogue `rm -rf /` in one container doesn't touch anything else.

- **Monadic ref architecture (lazy by default).** Combinators return refs — small JSON objects with metadata (cost, duration, exit code, provenance hash). The actual text stays on disk in `/tmp/swarm-mcp/{run_id}/{agent_id}/result.json`. Call `unwrap` when you actually need the content. This keeps the MCP protocol fast and prevents context window bloat.

- **Free monad pipelines (computation as data).** The `pipeline` tool interprets a JSON definition — steps with `on_fail` handlers, `condition` guards, `retry_if` loops, and `next` jumps. The pipeline is data you can store, versi…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- infra.cloud (1, declared)
- automation.orchestration (1, declared)
- dev.filesystem (0.882, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/mcp-swarm/ (first seen 2026-09-10T04:23:32.945Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/mcp-swarm/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/mcp-swarm · ARD identifier urn:air::server:mcp-swarm