Launching today
OpenSwarm
A swarm of agents, in the same place you work
600 followers
A swarm of agents, in the same place you work
600 followers
Stop bolting AI onto your computer. OpenSwarm is an AI-first operating system where agents run the whole machine: apps create themselves, browsers control themselves, and swarms of agents work together. Your OS just became an infinite canvas, and your work just transformed from you doing one task at a time, to orchestrating dozens in parallel. Tell it what you want and a swarm of agents does the work with you at the helm.
Awesome idea! Is OpenSwarm a stand-alone OS on bare metal or runs on top of macOS/Windows/Linux, and is it possible to use my own models/API keys?
Btw, Congratulations on the launch @haylli_weintraub , @eric_f_zeng and team OpenSwarm 🚀
@aymi_malik Thanks Muhammad! It's a desktop app that runs on top of your OS, not bare metal. macOS and Windows today; no Linux build yet.
And yes, use your own models: sign in with your Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini subscription, or add your own API keys (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, OpenRouter / custom router endpoints)
@aymi_malik @eric_f_zeng That was my first thought - where do you get tokens from. Thank you for clarification!
@aymi_malik @macarlos you can use api keys, or connect your subscription, so for our private beta. Its free!
@eric_f_zeng when a swarm is running dozens of tasks, how do I see what each agent is doing at any moment??
@katie_schmalzried17 super easy! you can ask any agent what the other agents are doing, where and when.
you can also click on the agent tab and see!
@haylli_weintraub @eric_f_zeng @aymi_malik Thanks for the support
being able to stop the whole swarm from one card is handy. what happens if two agents try to edit the same file at once?
@jeetendra_kumar2 So the agents can share a folder, but none of them can quietly overwrite another's work.
Before an agent edits a file it has to read it, and if someone else changed the file after that read, the edit is refused and the agent reads it again first.
For big parallel jobs, it works best to give each agent its separate projects / files
@eric_f_zeng I like the Idea of agents working together instead of having 10 different chats open. What kind of tasks work best with a swarm?
@rohit62661 Thanks Rohit! A swarm does best on work that splits into independent pieces (btw its designed more so to do write tasks, not just read tasks).
Some examples:
- filling out forms, navigating through socials / dm / messaging (all without mcp but the functionality is available if you prefer it).
- Researching 10 companies at once, one agent per company, then merging the findings into a comparison sheet
- Building an app where one agent does the page, another the data and another the tests
Step-by-step work, where each step needs the one before it, gets nothing from a swarm, so one agent is the better fit there. Splitting the job up and putting it back together is where you save
@eric_f_zeng @rohit62661 I have it run ads and script my content oh I also duped instict aswell
How much control stays with the user when several agents are working at the same time?
@khaildnaseem All of it.
Every agent is a live card on the canvas: you can watch it work, message it mid-task, or stop it, and stopping it stops its sub-agents too.
Anything risky or outward-facing, like sending an email or running a sensitive command, waits for your approval, and theres different safety modes for backing off for various degrees of tool / prompt risk
Can access be limited per agent or per application?
@jackthompson68 Every tool and every action in each connected app can be set to Ask, Allow or Never.
Connected apps aren't switched on for every chat by default so an agent only gets the ones its task needs. Each agent also runs in a mode that sets which tools it has, including read-only modes.
Showed this to our marketing lead, we have been struggling with low quality scores on PPC lately.
@jordan_bulk Let us know how it goes for your team!
@jordan_bulk Open Swarm has been running our ads end to end and now have less than a 20 cent ppc with 17% conversion rate
Very cool! What are you finding to be the best use cases?
@bullmeza So far the best ones are research that turns into a spreadsheet or live dashboard, custom tools built on demand, campaign pages in your brand voice, and jobs that cross Gmail, Calendar and Slack.
A good amount of people use this for shopping online too!
@bullmeza For me i have it script my content by scraping all the creators in my niche, running the ads for us, and simply using it as my os.