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Ruv Swarm

Ruv Swarm is an MCP server that adds tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Neural network swarm orchestration with WebAssembly acceleration and MCP integration. It has 386 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y ruv-swarm.

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Install Ruv Swarm

Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ruv-swarm": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "ruv-swarm"
      ],
      "env": {
        "RUV_SWARM_LOG_LEVEL": "your-value",
        "RUV_SWARM_DB_PATH": "your-value",
        "RUV_SWARM_ENABLE_SIMD": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env RUV_SWARM_LOG_LEVEL=your-value --env RUV_SWARM_DB_PATH=your-value --env RUV_SWARM_ENABLE_SIMD=your-value --transport stdio ruv-swarm -- npx -y ruv-swarm

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ruv-swarm": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "ruv-swarm"
      ],
      "env": {
        "RUV_SWARM_LOG_LEVEL": "your-value",
        "RUV_SWARM_DB_PATH": "your-value",
        "RUV_SWARM_ENABLE_SIMD": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "ruv-swarm": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "ruv-swarm"
      ],
      "env": {
        "RUV_SWARM_LOG_LEVEL": "your-value",
        "RUV_SWARM_DB_PATH": "your-value",
        "RUV_SWARM_ENABLE_SIMD": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

Environment variables

Variables the server reads at startup.

NameRequiredDescription
RUV_SWARM_LOG_LEVELNoLog level for ruv-swarm operations
RUV_SWARM_DB_PATHNoDatabase path for persistence storage
RUV_SWARM_ENABLE_SIMDNoEnable WebAssembly SIMD optimizations

About Ruv Swarm

What if every task, every file, every function could truly think? Just for a moment. No LLM required. That's what ruv-swarm makes real.

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How do I install the Ruv Swarm MCP server?

Add the command npx -y ruv-swarm to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Ruv Swarm free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is Ruv Swarm actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on May 23, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.