Is swarmclaw free to use?

swarmclaw is open source under the MIT licence. There is no licence fee and no seat count — you can self-host it or, where the project offers one, pay a vendor for a managed version instead.

What does swarmclaw do?

Open-source self-hosted AI agent runtime and multi-agent framework for autonomous agent swarms. Agent memory, MCP tools, schedules, delegation, and 23+ LLM prov

What is swarmclaw written in?

swarmclaw is primarily written in TypeScript. Its source is publicly available at https://github.com/swarmclawai/swarmclaw, and it has 673 GitHub stars.

swarmclaw: Open Source Orchestration & Scheduling

swarmclaw is a free, open source orchestration & scheduling project written in TypeScript and released under MIT. It has 673 GitHub stars, 137 forks and 18 open issues, and was last pushed 3 months ago. On this registry it ranks #111 of 123 tracked projects in Orchestration & Scheduling, with 5 head-to-head comparisons available.

SwarmClaw

The self-hosted AI agent runtime and multi-agent framework for autonomous agents. Open-source agent swarms with durable agent memory, MCP tools, skills, delegation, schedules, and 23+ LLM providers — a practical Claude Code and LangChain alternative.

SwarmClaw is an open-source, self-hosted AI agent runtime and multi-agent framework. Run autonomous AI agents, agent swarms, and orchestrators with heartbeats, schedules, delegation, agent memory, runtime skills, and reviewed conversation-to-skill learning — across OpenClaw gateways, Claude, GPT, Gemini, OpenRouter, Ollama, and 23+ other providers. Use it as your AI agent dashboard, agent orchestration platform, and home base for self-hosted multi-agent AI workflows.

GitHub: https://github.com/swarmclawai/swarmclaw
Docs: https://swarmclaw.ai/docs
Website: https://swarmclaw.ai
Discord: https://discord.gg/sbEavS8cPV
Extension tutorial: https://swarmclaw.ai/docs/extension-tutorial

Screenshots


_{Org chart for visualizing agent teams, delegation, and live activity.}	_{Agent chat with durable history, tools, and operator controls.}

Works
with

_OpenClaw

_Hermes

_{Claude Code}

_Codex

_{Gemini CLI}

_OpenCode

_Copilot

_Droid

_Cursor

_{Qwen Code}

_Goose

_Anthropic

_OpenAI

_OpenRouter

_Gemini

_Ollama

_DeepSeek

_Groq

_Together

_Mistral

_xAI

_Fireworks

_Nebius

_DeepInfra

Requirements

Node.js 22.6+ (nvm use will pick up the repo's .nvmrc, which matches CI)
npm 10+ or another supported package manager
Docker Desktop is recommended for sandbox browser execution
Optional provider CLIs if you want delegated CLI backends such as Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini, Copilot, Factory Droid, Cursor Agent, Qwen Code, or Goose

Quick Start

Desktop app (recommended for non-technical users)

Download the one-click installer from swarmclaw.ai/downloads. Available for macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel), Windows, and Linux (AppImage + .deb).

The release workflow supports Developer ID signing and notarization when Apple credentials are configured. If a macOS build is still ad-hoc signed, first launch may need one manual approval:

macOS: signed/notarized releases publish both .dmg and .zip; unsigned fallback releases publish .zip only to avoid the damaged unsigned DMG path. Right-click the app in Finder → Open → Open to bypass Gatekeeper. If macOS instead reports "SwarmClaw is damaged and can't be opened" (common when a downloaded app was quarantined by Safari), strip the quarantine attribute and relaunch:
```
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/SwarmClaw.app
```
Windows: if SmartScreen appears, click More info → Run anyway.
Linux (AppImage): chmod +x the downloaded file, then run it.

Data lives in your OS app-data directory (~/Library/Application Support/SwarmClaw, %APPDATA%\SwarmClaw, or ~/.config/SwarmClaw), separate from any CLI or Docker install.

Global install

npm i -g @swarmclawai/swarmclaw
swarmclaw

yarn global add @swarmclawai/swarmclaw
swarmclaw

pnpm add -g @swarmclawai/swarmclaw
swarmclaw

bun add -g @swarmclawai/swarmclaw
swarmclaw

Running swarmclaw starts the server on http://localhost:3456.

From the repo

git clone https://github.com/swarmclawai/swarmclaw.git
cd swarmclaw
nvm use
npm run quickstart

npm run quickstart installs dependencies, prepares local config and runtime state, and starts SwarmClaw.

Docker

git clone https://github.com/swarmclawai/swarmclaw.git
cd swarmclaw
mkdir -p data
touch .env.local
docker compose up -d --build

Then open http://localhost:3456.

ClawHub Skill

Install the SwarmClaw skill for your OpenClaw agents:

openclaw skills install swarmclaw

Browse on ClawHub

v1.9.39 Highlights

Scheduled-run reliability release: stale workspace rebinding, fail-fast credential checks, and durable delivery evidence for schedule-driven sends.

Legacy workspace cwd migration. Scheduled reruns and reused schedule sessions pinned to a pre-migration workspace root (e.g. ~/.swarmclaw/workspace) are now rebound to the current WORKSPACE_DIR automatically; intentional custom working directories are never touched.
Orphan recovery dedup. Startup queue recovery now recovers each orphaned task once instead of re-logging it every tick, and dead-letters tasks that repeatedly return to the queue without starting.
Schedule delivery status. Every scheduled run now writes lastDeliveryStatus/lastDeliveryError back to its schedule, so failures are visible without digging through task records.
Credential preflight for schedules. Scheduled runs on API-key providers fail fast with an actionable error when no credential resolves, instead of dying on a 401 deep in execution.
Empty-run classification. Runs that produce no text, no tool calls, and no error now fail with a clear provider-configuration message instead of a gene