Build with Swarm
Build your own AI agents
Swarm is an open-source AI agent platform that runs on your own Linux machine. Each guide builds one real agent on it, step by step, and shows what came back when we ran it: the replies, the diffs and what it cost.
- Build your own AI agent, step by stepAn agent of your own: a name, a role and standing instructions, built and run for real.
- An agentic workflow, built and run: coder, reviewer, send it backA coder does the work, a reviewer checks it, a failed review sends it back. Run for real.
- Multi-agent orchestration: several agents, one goal, a real runA research agent and a coding agent in parallel on one goal, reviewed and merged.
- Build an AI coding agent that works on your own machineAn open-source coding agent with your own rules, on your machine, on its own branch.
- Build an AI agent for your website that can only do what you allowA chat agent for your site with only the tools your app defines, behind a narrow token.
- Run an AI agent on a schedule, or when something happensAgents that start themselves: on a cron schedule, or from a signed webhook.
- AI agent platforms in 2026, compared fairlyEleven platforms: how you build, where it runs, open source or not, and what it costs.
- What is an agent swarm?Many AI agents splitting one goal, in parallel, and what it takes to run one well.
Looking for a job to hand over rather than an agent to build? See use cases.