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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

📖 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.

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 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.

📖 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.

Ruflo Plugins

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.

🔌 All 35 plugins

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, and publish your own plugins

Domain-Specific

Plugin What it does
ruflo-iot-cognitum IoT device management — trust scoring, anomaly detection, fleets
ruflo-neural-trader neural-trader — AI trading with 4 agents, backtesting, 112+ tools
ruflo-market-data Ingest market data, vectorize OHLCV, detect patterns

CLI Install

macOS / Linux / WSL / Git-Bash:

# One-line install (POSIX shells only — see Windows note below)
curl -fsSL https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ruvnet/ruflo@main/scripts/install.sh | bash

All platforms (including native Windows PowerShell / cmd):

# Interactive setup wizard — runs identically on every platform
npx ruflo@latest init wizard

# Quick non-interactive init
# npx ruflo@latest init

# Or install globally
npm install -g ruflo@latest

💡 Windows users: the curl ... | bash form needs a POSIX shell (Git-Bash, WSL, MSYS). The npx ruflo@latest init wizard line works natively in PowerShell and cmd. If you hit an 'bash' is not recognized error, use the npx line instead — both end up running the same init flow.

MCP Server

# Add Ruflo as an MCP server in Claude Code
claude mcp add claude-flow -- npx ruflo@latest mcp start

What You Get

Capability Description
🤖 100+ Agents Specialized agents for coding, testing, security, docs, architecture
📡 Comms Layer Zero-trust federation — agents across machines/orgs discover, authenticate, and exchange work securely
🐝 Swarm Coordination Hierarchical, mesh, and adaptive topologies with consensus
🧠 Self-Learning SONA neural patterns, ReasoningBank, trajectory learning
💾 Vector Memory HNSW-indexed AgentDB — measured ~1.9x faster at N=20k, ~3.2x–4.7x at N=5k vs brute force (recall@10 ~0.99); ANN wins above the crossover, ties/loses at small N. See audit + scripts/benchmark-intelligence.mjs
⚡ Background Workers 12 auto-triggered workers (audit, optimize, testgaps, etc.)
🧩 Plugin Marketplace 33 native Claude Code plugins + 21 npm plugins
🔌 Multi-Provider Claude, GPT, Gemini, Cohere, Ollama with smart routing
🛡️ Security AIDefence, input validation, CVE remediation, path traversal prevention
🌐 Agent Federation Cross-installation agent collaboration with zero-trust security
🔬 MetaHarness Audit your AI agent setup before you ship. Grade readiness (1-100), scan tool configs for security issues, snapshot the whole project to catch regressions over time, and find templates that match your repo. ruflo eject turns a ruflo project into a standalone agent toolkit with its own name. Full guide.
💬 Web UI Beta Multi-model chat at flo.ruv.io with parallel MCP tool calling and an in-browser WASM tool gallery
🎯 RuFlo Research GOAP A* planner at goal.ruv.io — plain-English goals → executable agent plans, with a live agent dashboard at /agents

RuFlo Web UI executing parallel MCP tool calls at flo.ruv.io — ruflo__memory_store and ruflo__memory_search firing in a single model turn with the 'Step 1 — 2 tools completed' parallel-execution indicator, thinking process panel visible, Qwen 3.6 Max as the active model. Multi-agent AI chat with Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool calling, persistent vector memory via AgentDB + HNSW, swarm coordination, and 6 frontier models including Claude Sonnet 4.6, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and OpenAI through OpenRouter.

Web UI (Beta) — self-hostable, hosted demo at flo.ruv.io

RuFlo's web UI is a multi-model AI chat with built-in Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool calling. Talk to Qwen, Claude, Gemini, or OpenAI while RuFlo invokes the same MCP tools the CLI uses — agent orchestration, persistent memory, swarm coordination, code review, GitHub ops — directly from chat. No install, no API key needed to try it.

What it is Why it matters
🧠 Any model, local or remote 6 curated frontier models out-of-the-box — Qwen 3.6 Max (default), Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Haiku 4.5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Gemini 2.5 Flash, OpenAI — via OpenRouter. Add your own: any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (vLLM, Ollama, LM Studio, Together, Groq, self-hosted).
🦾 ruvLLM self-learning AI Native support for ruvLLM (lives in ruvnet/RuVector/examples/ruvLLM) — RuFlo's self-improving local model layer. Routes to MicroLoRA adapters, learns from your trajectories via SONA, and stays on your machine. Pair with the cloud models or run fully offline.
🛠️ ~210 tools, ready to call 5 server groups (Core, Intelligence, Agents, Memory, DevTools) plus an 18-tool gallery that runs entirely in your browser — works offline.
🔌 Bring your own MCP servers Click the MCP (n) pill in the chat input → Add Server and paste any MCP endpoint (HTTP, SSE, or stdio). Your tools join RuFlo's native ones in the same parallel-execution flow. Run a local MCP server on localhost:3000 and it just works.
⚡ Tools run in parallel One model response can fire 4–6+ tools at the same time. The UI shows them as cards with a Step 1 — 2 tools completed badge so you can see exactly what ran.
💾 Memory that sticks Say "remember my favorite color is indigo" and ask weeks later — RuFlo recalls it. Backed by AgentDB + HNSW vector search (measured ~1.9x–4.7x faster than brute force above the crossover, recall@10 ~0.99).
📘 Built-in capabilities tour Click the question-mark icon in the sidebar — a "RuFlo Capabilities" modal opens with the full tool list, model strengths, architecture, and keyboard shortcuts.
🏠 Self-hostable Web UI is shipped as Docker (ruflo/src/ruvocal/Dockerfile) with embedded Mongo. Deploy to your own Cloud Run / Fly / Kubernetes / docker-compose. The hosted flo.ruv.io demo is one option; running your own is fully supported.
🚀 Zero install to try Open the hosted URL, pick a model, type a question. That's the whole onboarding.

Try the hosted demo: https://flo.ruv.io/ — no account, no API key. Run your own: the source lives in ruflo/src/ruvocal/ with a multi-stage Dockerfile (INCLUDE_DB=true builds in MongoDB) and a cloudbuild.yaml for Google Cloud Run. See ADR-033 for the architecture and issue #1689 for the roadmap.

goal.ruv.io/agents — RuFlo Goal-Oriented Action Planning (GOAP) UI for autonomous AI agents. Visual goal decomposition, A* search through state spaces, multi-agent task assignment, and live agent telemetry.

Goal Planner UI — autonomous agents at goal.ruv.io

Turn high-level goals into executable agent plans. goal.ruv.io is RuFlo's hosted Goal-Oriented Action Planning (GOAP) front-end — describe an outcome in plain English and watch RuFlo dec

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Ruflo
What is this?Ruflo is an agent meta-harness for Claude Code and Codex: it adds 100+ specialized agents, coordinated swarms, self-learning memory, and cross-machine federation on top of those coding agents so they can collaborate instead of running solo.
Is this a Claude Code plugin or a standalone CLI tool?Both are offered: installing individual Claude Code plugins only adds slash commands and agent definitions with no files added to your workspace, while the full CLI install (npx ruflo init) sets up the complete loop - 98 agents, 60+ commands, 30 skills, an MCP server, hooks and a daemon.
How do I get it running?Run npx ruflo init (or the equivalent npx ruflo@latest init wizard) to scaffold the full CLI install with its MCP server and hooks, or install individual Claude Code plugins from the marketplace for a lighter, commands-only setup.
Do I need Claude Code or Codex already set up?Yes, Ruflo is a harness built around those coding agents rather than a standalone model; it also requires Node.js 20 or newer to run.
Does the one-line curl install work on native Windows?Not directly - the curl ... | bash installer needs a POSIX shell (Git-Bash, WSL, or MSYS); on plain PowerShell or cmd you should use the npx ruflo@latest init wizard instead, which runs the same init flow.
What is the Web UI beta and do I need an API key for it?It's a self-hostable, multi-model chat (Qwen, Claude, Gemini, OpenAI via OpenRouter) that calls the same roughly 210 MCP tools as the CLI; the hosted demo at flo.ruv.io needs no install and no API key to try.
How does agent memory and federation work?Memory is backed by an HNSW-indexed vector store (AgentDB) so agents recall facts across sessions, and federation lets agents on different machines or orgs discover and exchange work securely under zero-trust authentication without leaking data.
What plugins ship with Ruflo?35 official plugins cover orchestration (swarm, autopilot, federation), memory (agentdb, rag-memory, knowledge-graph), testing (testgen, browser), security (security-audit, aidefence) and DevOps (observability, cost-tracker), shipped as 33 native Claude Code plugins plus 21 npm plugins.
Where does the name Ruflo come from?It's the successor to Claude Flow, renamed by its creator rUv - 'Ru' from rUv and 'flo' from working in flow states until 3am.
What are similar projects?open-multi-agent, brigade, evenfire, hive, dify, deer-flow, trueforge, Agentlas-OS
Which topics is it in?swarm-intelligence, swarm, agentic-framework, federation, ai-skills, agentic-workflow, ai-assistant, multi-agent-systems, vector-search, knowledge-graph, vector-database, gpt
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