ruvnet/ruflo

Ruflo (formerly Claude Flow) is a multi-agent orchestration platform designed to work alongside Claude Code, Anthropic's AI coding assistant. The problem it solves is that when you want to use AI to tackle large, complex software projects, a single AI conversation can only do so much, it has a limited context window and no persistent memory between sessions. Ruflo adds a coordination layer on top of Claude Code that lets you deploy swarms of specialized AI agents, have them collaborate on different parts of a problem simultaneously, and accumulate shared memory and learning across sessions. The core concept is a routing system: when you run a task, Ruflo's router assigns it to the most appropriate specialized agent (or a team of agents), those agents complete their sub-tasks, the results feed back into a shared memory store, and the system learns from what worked well to improve future task assignments. This is sometimes called a "swarm" architecture, many agents self-organizing to handle a big goal that would be too large for a single conversation. The README describes it as giving Claude Code a "nervous system." Features include RAG integration (retrieval-augmented generation, meaning agents can query a knowledge base to ground their responses in relevant past information), federation (agents on different machines can collaborate), and 30+ plugins covering areas like test generation, security auditing, browser automation, and local LLM support. You would use Ruflo when working on large codebases where you want AI assistance that accumulates context over time, coordinates multiple specialized agents, and produces consistent results across long projects. The platform is built in TypeScript, runs in Node.js, connects to Claude via its API, and is installed with npx. It also supports integration with OpenAI's Codex.