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Ruflo

An agent meta-harness for Claude Code and Codex.

📖 RuFlo Explained — Build an AI Team That Plans, Remembers, Tests, and Improves A 14-chapter guide: from the basic idea to a first useful task, then memory, agent teams, plugins, cost and verification.

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Agent = Model + Harness. The model writes; the harness gives it tools, memory, loops, sandboxes, and controls so it can actually work. Ruflo is the harness — the execution layer around Claude Code and Codex that adds 100+ specialized agents, coordinated swarms, self-learning memory, federated comms across machines, and enterprise security guardrails. So agents don't just run, they collaborate.

One npx ruflo init gives Claude Code a nervous system: agents self-organize into swarms, learn from every task, remember across sessions, and — with federation — securely talk to agents on other machines without leaking data. You keep writing code. Ruflo handles the coordination.

Self-Learning / Self-Optimizing Agent Architecture

User --> Ruflo (CLI/MCP) --> Router --> Swarm --> Agents --> Memory --> LLM Providers
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                          +---- Learning Loop <-------+

New to Ruflo? You don't need to learn 314 MCP tools or 26 CLI commands. After init, just use Claude Code normally — the hooks system automatically routes tasks, learns from successful patterns, and coordinates agents in the background.

<details> <summary><strong>📖 Background — where the name comes from</strong></summary>

Claude Flow is now Ruflo — named by rUv, who loves Rust, flow states, and building things that feel inevitable. The "Ru" is the rUv. The "flo" is working until 3am. Underneath, powered by Cognitum.One agentic architecture, running a supercharged Rust-based AI engine, embeddings, memory, and plugin system.

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Quick Start

There are two different install paths with very different surface areas. Pick based on what you need (#1744):

| | Claude Code Plugin | CLI install (npx ruflo init) | |---|---|---| | What it gives you | Slash commands + a few skills + agent definitions per-plugin | Full Ruflo loop — 98 agents, 60+ commands, 30 skills, MCP server, hooks, daemon | | Files in your workspace | Zero | .claude/, .claude-flow/, CLAUDE.md, helpers, settings | | MCP server registered | Only if ruflo-core is installed (it ships its own .mcp.json) — most other plugins don't | Yes | | Hooks installed | No | Yes | | Best for | Try a single plugin's commands without committing to the full install | Production use — everything works as documented |

Path A — Claude Code Plugins (lite, slash commands only)

# Add the marketplace
/plugin marketplace add ruvnet/ruflo

# Install core + any plugins you need
/plugin install ruflo-core@ruflo
/plugin install ruflo-swarm@ruflo
/plugin install ruflo-rag-memory@ruflo
/plugin install ruflo-neural-trader@ruflo

This adds slash commands and agent definitions. ruflo-core (installed above) does register its own MCP server on install — its tools are callable as mcp__plugin_ruflo-core_ruflo__* (e.g. mcp__plugin_ruflo-core_ruflo__memory_store), not the bare memory_store/swarm_init/agent_spawn names the CLI-track scaffold uses. Other plugins generally don't ship their own MCP server. For the full loop with the CLI-track tool names, use Path B below.

<details> <summary><strong>🔌 All 35 plugins</strong></summary>

Core & Orchestration

| Plugin | What it does | |--------|-------------| | ruflo-core | Foundation — server, health checks, plugin discovery | | ruflo-swarm | Coordinate multiple agents as a team | | ruflo-autopilot | Let agents run autonomously in a loop | | ruflo-loop-workers | Schedule background tasks on a timer | | ruflo-workflows | Reusable multi-step task templates | | ruflo-federation | Agents on different machines collaborate securely |

Memory & Knowledge

| Plugin | What it does | |--------|-------------| | ruflo-agentdb | Fast vector database for agent memory | | ruflo-rag-memory | Smart retrieval — hybrid search, graph hops, diversity ranking | | ruflo-rvf | Save and restore agent memory across sessions | | ruflo-ruvector | ruvector — GPU-accelerated search, Graph RAG, 103 tools | | ruflo-knowledge-graph | Build and traverse entity relationship maps |

Intelligence & Learning

| Plugin | What it does | |--------|-------------| | ruflo-intelligence | Agents learn from past successes and get smarter | | ruflo-graph-intelligence | Sublinear graph reasoning — PageRank, delta updates, complexity-aware execution (ADR-123) | | ruflo-daa | Dynamic agent behavior and cognitive patterns | | ruflo-ruvllm | Run local LLMs (Ollama, etc.) with smart routing | | ruflo-goals | Break big goals into plans and track progress |

Code Quality & Testing

| Plugin | What it does | |--------|-------------| | ruflo-testgen | Find missing tests and generate them automatically | | ruflo-browser | Automate browser testing with Playwright | | ruflo-jujutsu | Analyze git diffs, score risk, suggest reviewers | | ruflo-docs | Generate and maintain documentation automatically |

Security & Compliance

| Plugin | What it does | |--------|-------------| | ruflo-security-audit | Scan for vulnerabilities and CVEs | | ruflo-aidefence | Block prompt injection, detect PII, safety scanning |

Architecture & Methodology

| Plugin | What it does | |--------|-------------| | ruflo-adr | Track architecture decisions with a living record | | ruflo-ddd | Scaffold domain-driven design — contexts, aggregates, events | | ruflo-sparc | Guided 5-phase development methodology with quality gates | | ruflo-metaharness | Grade your agent setup, scan tool configs for security risks, and track changes over time (guide) | | ruflo-arena | Competitive ruliology — pit agent strategies against each other in tournaments, hill-climb and co-evolve the winners (ADR-147/148) |

DevOps & Observability

| Plugin | What it does | |--------|-------------| | ruflo-migrations | Manage database schema changes safely | | ruflo-observability | Structured logs, traces, and metrics in one place | | ruflo-cost-tracker | Track token usage, set budgets, get cost alerts |

Extensibility

| Plugin | What it does | |--------|-------------| | ruflo-agent | Run agents — local WASM sandbox (rvagent) + Anthropic Claude Managed Agents (cloud) | | ruflo-plugin-creator | Scaffold, validate,