Ruflo

Ruflo

An agent meta-harness for Claude Code and Codex.

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

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 ^ | +---- Learning Loop <-------+

New to Ruflo? You don't need to learn 406 MCP tools or 61 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.

📖 Background — where the name comes from

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):

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.

🔌 All 48 plugins

Core & Orchestration

Memory & Knowledge

Intelligence & Learning

Code Quality & Testing

Security & Compliance

Architecture & Methodology

| [ruflo-metaharness](../plugins/ruflo-metaharness/RE