Swarm Skill

Spawn isolated agents to execute tasks in parallel. Fresh context per agent (Ralph Wiggum pattern).

Loop position

Move 5 (wave execution) of the operating loop, specifically the parallel-fork primitive /crank invokes. Refuses to spawn parallel agents on a wave that has not cleared the wave-validity check in the slice validation plan: write scopes must be disjoint, no shared migration/contract/CLI surface, integration order declared when it matters, one owner per slice, discard path per slice. Parallelism is explicit ownership, not swarm chaos. Default to sequential when the wave-validity rows are not all green.

Integration modes:

• Direct - Create TaskList tasks, invoke /swarm
• Via Crank - /crank creates tasks from beads, invokes /swarm for each wave

Requires multi-agent runtime. Swarm needs a runtime that can spawn parallel subagents. If unavailable, work must be done sequentially in the current session.

Architecture (Mayor-First)