Welcome to the complete documentation for Claude-Flow - an advanced AI agent orchestration system created by rUv for the Claude community.
This comprehensive documentation covers all aspects of Claude-Flow, from quick start guides to advanced API integration.
- Quick Start Guide - Get up and running in minutes
- Installation - Multiple installation methods
- First Steps - Your first agent and task
- CLI Reference - Complete command-line interface documentation
- Configuration - System configuration and customization
- Agent Management - Creating and managing AI agents
- Task Orchestration - Task scheduling and workflows
- Memory System - Advanced memory management
- Terminal Integration - Terminal pooling and session management
- MCP Integration - Model Context Protocol implementation
- API Reference - Programmatic interface documentation
- Examples - Practical usage examples and templates
- Deployment - Production deployment strategies
- Troubleshooting - Common issues and solutions
Claude-Flow is a sophisticated multi-agent orchestration system that enables you to:
- Spawn and coordinate multiple Claude agents with different roles
- Intelligent task assignment and load balancing
- Inter-agent communication and collaboration
- Dynamic agent lifecycle management
- Priority-based task scheduling with dependencies
- Complex workflow orchestration with parallel execution
- Automated retry and error recovery mechanisms
- Real-time progress monitoring and reporting
- Persistent memory with SQLite and Markdown backends
- Vector-based semantic search and retrieval
- CRDT-based conflict resolution for collaboration
- Namespace isolation and access control
- Efficient terminal pooling and session management
- VSCode Terminal API integration
- Command execution with security sandboxing
- Cross-platform compatibility
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation
- Dynamic tool discovery and registration
- Secure tool execution with sandboxing
- Custom tool development framework
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│ Claude-Flow System │
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│ ┌─────────────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐ │
│ │ CLI/REPL │ │ Web API │ │ Extensions │ │
│ └─────────────────┘ └─────────────────┘ └─────────────────┘ │
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│ Core Orchestrator │
│ ┌─────────────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐ │
│ │ Agent Manager │ │ Task Scheduler │ │ Memory Manager │ │
│ └─────────────────┘ └─────────────────┘ └─────────────────┘ │
│ ┌─────────────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐ │
│ │Terminal Manager │ │Resource Manager │ │ MCP Server │ │
│ └─────────────────┘ └─────────────────┘ └─────────────────┘ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Get started with Claude-Flow in just a few commands:
# Install and start
npx claude-flow
# Initialize configuration
claude-flow config init
# Start the orchestrator
claude-flow start
# Create your first agent
claude-flow agent spawn researcher --name "Research Assistant"
# Assign a task
claude-flow task create research "Analyze AI trends in 2024"
# Monitor progress
claude-flow status --watch- Quick Start - Immediate hands-on introduction
- CLI Reference - Complete command documentation
- Configuration - Customization and settings
- Examples - Real-world usage scenarios
- API Reference - Programmatic interfaces
- Agent Management - Agent development
- MCP Integration - Tool development
- Memory System - Memory architecture
- Deployment - Production setup
- Configuration - System administration
- Troubleshooting - Issue resolution
- Terminal Integration - System integration
- Start with Quick Start Guide
- Explore CLI Reference basics
- Try Simple Examples
- Learn Agent Management fundamentals
- Master Task Orchestration
- Understand Memory System
- Configure Terminal Integration
- Explore Advanced Examples
- Study API Reference for programmatic use
- Develop custom tools with MCP Integration
- Plan Production Deployment
- Contribute to development
Claude-Flow supports multiple specialized agent types:
- 🔬 Researcher: Information gathering and analysis
- 📊 Analyst: Data analysis and pattern recognition
- ⚡ Implementer: Code development and execution
- 🎯 Coordinator: Project management and orchestration
- 🛠 Custom: User-defined specialized agents
Create complex workflows with:
- Dependencies: Sequential and parallel task execution
- Conditional Logic: Dynamic workflow adaptation
- Error Handling: Automatic retry and recovery
- Progress Tracking: Real-time monitoring and reporting
Advanced memory capabilities including:
- Persistent Storage: SQLite and Markdown backends
- Semantic Search: Vector-based similarity matching
- Conflict Resolution: CRDT-based collaboration
- Namespace Isolation: Multi-tenant support
Powerful terminal management with:
- Pool Management: Efficient terminal resource allocation
- Session Persistence: Stateful terminal sessions
- Security Sandboxing: Safe command execution
- VSCode Integration: Native editor support
- Academic research automation
- Market analysis workflows
- Competitive intelligence gathering
- Data analysis pipelines
- Code review automation
- Testing and QA workflows
- Documentation generation
- CI/CD integration
- Customer support automation
- Content creation pipelines
- Process optimization
- Report generation
- ETL workflow automation
- Analytics report generation
- Data quality monitoring
- Performance analysis
- 100% test coverage
- Comprehensive error handling
- Performance optimized
- Security hardened
- TypeScript/JavaScript API
- Comprehensive documentation
- Rich example library
- Active community support
- Flexible configuration system
- Multiple deployment options
- Extensible architecture
- Custom agent development
- Multi-tenant support
- Advanced security features
- Monitoring and metrics
- Audit logging
- GitHub Issues - Bug reports and feature requests
- GitHub Discussions - Community Q&A
- Discord - Real-time chat support
- Documentation - Comprehensive guides
- Contributing Guide - How to contribute
- Code of Conduct - Community guidelines
- Development Setup - Local development
- Architecture - System design
- Enhanced web UI for visual workflow design
- Plugin system for custom integrations
- Advanced analytics and reporting
- Performance optimizations
- Distributed orchestration support
- Integration with more AI models
- Enhanced collaboration features
- Enterprise security enhancements
Claude-Flow is open source software released under the MIT License.
Created by rUv - Advancing AI agent orchestration for the Claude community.
Ready to get started? Begin with our Quick Start Guide and join the future of AI agent orchestration!