Agent Swarm
Shares rank 10 of 15 agent orchestrators by recommenders
Free open-source multi-agent team tool with Slack and GitHub feedback loops and self-learning memory. Common caveat: thin documentation.
6 people recommended Agent Swarm in Hacker News comments and none criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026.
Summary written by Claude from 29 comments. It was written before the November 2026 recount, and 9 of those comments still count.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- mixed feelings
- 0
- warn against or regret it
- 0
The record
Recommended in 4 of 12 months
In 7 different threads.
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 12 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
- Recommended in 7 threadsNeeds 5 or more, met.
- The biggest thread supplies 33% of its recommendersNeeds half or less, met.
The same rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. Mixed feelings count toward neither side. How the badge works
What people say about it
Reasons grouped from a sample of 9 of the 9 opinions about it, picked in proportion to how many people recommend it, have mixed feelings and criticize it. Each mark is one comment in the sample. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Works like an intern or peer
“the Slack integration is super good, works as if it was a peer”
Comment from 23 Jul 2026 in “Code mode yields a 99.2% cost reduction in our systems” Completes most assigned work
“it was way better than any AI model I've tried so far”
Comment from 31 Jan 2026 in “Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]”
Other agent orchestrators people recommend
The four most recommended other agent orchestrators, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Mixed | Criticize | Approval | Months | Had for | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conductor | 42 | 14 | 22 | 66% | 10 | — | — |
| Gas Town | 30 | 52 | 198 | 13% | 5 | — | — |
| Scion by Google | 16 | 10 | 27 | 37% | 6 | — | — |
| Claude Code Agent Teams | 12 | 2 | 10 | 55% | 3 | — | — |
| Agent SwarmThis page | 6 | 0 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
Also compared with AX by Google.
What people said
All 9 opinions about it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“dynamic workflows, or static ones should contain guardrails and scripts enforcing certain rules”
“so that when a Pagerduty (or any other) comes it will handle it with automatic provider failover.”
“This could be revolutionary.”
“our vision to build this oss (MIT) and harness agnostic is more relevant than ever”
“the Slack integration is super good, works as if it was a peer”
“This is game changer, as we are able to”
“Here's what I use: https://github.com/DheerG/swarms”
“It shines when you keep creating tasks, define dependencies between them, and give clear descriptions.”
“it was way better than any AI model I've tried so far”
Counts come from 1,791,911 Hacker News comments labeled by Claude, November 2025 to October 2026, with data through October 31, 2026. Counts updated 2 Nov 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.