# openai/swarm

Educational framework exploring ergonomic, lightweight multi-agent orchestration. Managed by OpenAI Solution team.

Repository: https://github.com/openai/swarm
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/swarm
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-04-15T17:10:28+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 60/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 77, release rhythm 35, longevity 65
- inputs: {"age_days": 923, "days_push": 140, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 21925, forks 2327 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:32.221824+00:00)

## What it is
Swarm is an experimental, educational Python framework from OpenAI for lightweight multi-agent orchestration, built on the Chat Completions API with two primitives: Agents and handoffs. It is now deprecated in favor of the production-ready OpenAI Agents SDK and is no longer recommended for production use.

## Use cases
- orchestrate multiple LLM agents that hand off conversations to each other
- learn how multi-agent coordination patterns work
- build lightweight stateless agent workflows on the Chat Completions API
- prototype agent networks with custom tools and instructions
- experiment with routing user requests between specialized agents

## When to choose
- you want to study or teach multi-agent orchestration concepts
- you need a minimal, client-side, stateless agent framework to experiment with
- you are exploring patterns before adopting the OpenAI Agents SDK

## When to avoid
- you are building a production system - use the OpenAI Agents SDK instead
- you need hosted threads, memory management, or retrieval via the Assistants API
- you expect ongoing maintenance, updates, or support

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: abandoned
- function: agent-framework, llm-inference, chatbot
- domain: artificial-intelligence, large-language-models, developer-tools
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: multi-agent-orchestration, openai, educational, deprecated, handoffs, chat-completions, ai-agents

## Member repositories
- openai/swarm (main) score 60

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:32.221824+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:57:45.218418+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/openai/swarm (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:32.221824+00:00, sha 0522d77d58f4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.