Robert Martin ships a six-role AI agent coordinator

Robert Martin shipped swarm-forge, a tmux-based coordinator that splits AI coding work into six software-team roles, per the GitHub repo. The project passed 1,701 stars after gaining 85 in a single day.

The project began as a fork of a tool his son Justin built. Martin rewrote it heavily in Clojure.

Each of the six roles, Specifier, Coder, Cleaner, Architect, Hardener, QA, gets its own prompt, git worktree, and message channel to the next stage. The whole setup runs over a single, project-scoped tmux socket recorded in .swarmforge/tmux-socket.

Martin demoed the setup building a Clojure and ClojureScript remake of Missile Command with what he calls a six-pack swarm.

The roles run in a fixed order, Specifier to Coder to Cleaner to Architect to Hardener to QA, always in that sequence, per the repo.

The repo doesn't have a license file yet, so the terms for reusing or forking the code aren't settled.