Quest: Agent Swarm Commander
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Category | Challenge |
| Difficulty | Master |
| Points | 200 |
| Deadline | 35 days |
| Evidence | Text + Link |
| Objectives | 6 |
Narrative Context
A single agent is powerful. A coordinated swarm is transformative. The Agentics Foundation’s tools—Claude Code and claude-flow—enable orchestration of parallel agents working toward shared goals. Master this, and you become a conductor of digital intelligence.
Transformation Goal
You will gain practical experience orchestrating multi-agent systems, understand coordination patterns and failure modes, and build something that demonstrates swarm capabilities.
Objectives
Objective 1: Swarm Theory
| Field | Value | |——-|——-| | Points | 25 | | Evidence | Text | | Depends On | — |
Study multi-agent coordination patterns (hierarchical, mesh, consensus). Document trade-offs of each approach.
Objective 2: Tool Mastery
| Field | Value | |——-|——-| | Points | 30 | | Evidence | Text + Link | | Depends On | Objective 1 |
Set up Claude Code with claude-flow. Successfully run a basic multi-agent workflow.
Objective 3: Design a Swarm
| Field | Value | |——-|——-| | Points | 35 | | Evidence | Text + Link | | Depends On | Objective 2 |
Design a swarm architecture for a non-trivial task (research, code review, content generation). Document agent roles and communication patterns.
Objective 4: Build & Run
| Field | Value | |——-|——-| | Points | 50 | | Evidence | Link (video/code) | | Depends On | Objective 3 |
Implement your swarm. Demonstrate it completing a real task with observable coordination.
Objective 5: Failure Analysis
| Field | Value | |——-|——-| | Points | 30 | | Evidence | Text | | Depends On | Objective 4 |
Document what went wrong, where agents drifted, and how you’d improve the design.
Objective 6: Teach Others
| Field | Value | |——-|——-| | Points | 30 | | Evidence | Link | | Depends On | Objective 5 |
Create a tutorial or present at AI Hackerspace on what you learned.
Resources
Design Notes
This is the highest-point quest, reflecting its difficulty and value to the guild. The failure analysis objective acknowledges that swarm coordination is hard—learning from failures is part of the craft.