Agentic Discipline 6: Swarm Forge Demonstration
Swarm Forge is a coordination system that enables a team of specialized agents to collaborate seamlessly on software development. In this demonstration, six agents work together: Specifier, Coder, Cleaner, Hardener, Architect, and QA. Each agent operates in its own isolated Git worktree, preventing interference with other agents' changes.
Workflow
- Specifier Takes incoming tasks and converts them into clear Gherkin acceptance tests, plus a detailed manual, UI-driven QA procedure. These artifacts are then passed to the Coder.
- Coder Implements the required functionality, writes unit tests, and builds the acceptance test harness. Once all Gherkin acceptance tests pass, the code and tests are handed off to the Cleaner.
- Cleaner Enforces code quality using DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) and CRAP (Change Risk Analysis and Predictions) quality gates. It iteratively refactors the code and tests until both gates are satisfied, then passes the result to the Architect.
- Architect Reviews and refines the modular structure and dependency graph. It also adds property-based tests that more thoroughly exercise the requirements. The improved codebase is then passed to the Hardener.
- Hardener Applies rigorous mutation testing at two levels: language-level mutation and Gherkin-level mutation. These computationally intensive checks surround the code with extremely high test coverage and resilience. Once hardening is complete, the code moves to the QA agent.
- QA Transforms the original QA procedures (produced by the Specifier) into automated UI-driving scripts. It executes these scripts to verify that the final system behaves exactly as the user expects at the user interface level. This pipeline creates a highly disciplined, multi-layered quality process where each agent focuses on its specialized responsibility while contributing to a robust, well-tested final product.