Four years after it began as a research project, the open-source Swarms framework has crossed 7,000 GitHub stars, with 961 forks and 58 contributors. A thank you to the community that built it, and a look at where the project goes from here.
Today, Swarms reached 7,000 GitHub stars.
Four years in the making. What started as a research project has grown into an open-source platform used by thousands of developers building multi-agent systems around the world.
Milestones like this one are a good moment to take stock of what the repository looks like today:
| Metric | Count |
|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 7,000 |
| Forks | 961 |
| Contributors | 58 |
Behind each of those numbers is a person who decided the project was worth their time. A star is a developer who found the framework useful enough to bookmark. A fork is someone who pulled the code down to build on it, study it, or fix it. A contributor is someone who sent that work back so everyone else could benefit.
Swarms began with a research question: what happens when you stop treating a language model as a single assistant and start treating it as a workforce? Answering that question required infrastructure that did not exist yet, so we built it.
Over four years, that infrastructure became a production framework: single agents with tools, memory, and structured outputs, then sequential and concurrent workflows, then hierarchical swarms, group chat architectures, routing systems, and graph-based orchestration. The framework now underpins the broader Swarms platform, from the Swarms API to the Swarms Marketplace, and it remains fully open source under the same repository where it started.
None of that trajectory was possible without the community. Every pull request that fixed an edge case, every issue that documented a real failure in a real pipeline, every discussion that pushed back on an API design made the framework sharper. Thank you to every contributor, user, researcher, and builder who has been part of this journey. Your feedback, pull requests, issues, and support have shaped Swarms into what it is today.
Seven thousand stars is a milestone, and we intend to treat it as a starting line. The roadmap ahead includes deeper multi-agent architectures, better observability, faster execution, and tighter integration across the Swarms platform. The pace of commits is increasing, and there has never been a better time to get involved.
The ecosystem around the repository keeps widening too. The Python framework now sits alongside Swarms RS for Rust, a hosted API with more than fifteen orchestration architectures, an open marketplace where builders sell agents and prompts, and the newly launched Swarms Academy, a free course platform that teaches the entire stack from a first API call to production swarms. Every one of those surfaces traces back to the code in this repository and the community that hardened it.
If you have been waiting for a reason to try multi-agent development, this is it:
Install the framework, run your first swarm, and open an issue when something gets in your way. Star number 7,001 is waiting, and so is the next contribution. We are just getting started.
Swarms Academy is live at swarms.ai/academy. The flagship Swarms API course spans four parts and 31 lessons, with live API trials you run directly in the page, checkpoint projects, graded quizzes, and a points system that ranks you from Recruit to Swarm Architect. All of it is free.
The Swarms Marketplace now supports fiat payments powered by Stripe. Buyers in 100+ countries can purchase AI agents and prompts with cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Alipay, Klarna, and more, while sellers get automatic bank payouts on every sale.
A week by week, day by day log of everything that shipped on Swarms Cloud over the past two months: a redesigned Agents workspace, a public model catalog spanning 1,500+ models, subscription billing, free credit for new accounts, guided onboarding, and dozens of reliability fixes, with what each change actually means for you.