**Build your agent team in [OpenClaw](https://docs.openclaw.ai) with one command.**
You don't need to hire a dev team. You need to define one. Antfarm gives you a team of specialized AI agents — planner, developer, verifier, tester, reviewer — that work together in reliable, repeatable workflows. One install. Zero infrastructure.
```
$ install github.com/snarktank/antfarm
```
Tell your OpenClaw agent. That's it.
---
## What You Get: Agent Team Workflows
### feature-dev `7 agents`
Drop in a feature request. Get back a tested PR. The planner decomposes your task into stories. Each story gets implemented, verified, and tested in isolation. Failures retry automatically. Nothing ships without a code review.
```
plan → setup → implement → verify → test → PR → review
```
### security-audit `7 agents`
Point it at a repo. Get back a security fix PR with regression tests. Scans for vulnerabilities, ranks by severity, patches each one, re-audits after all fixes are applied.
```
scan → prioritize → setup → fix → verify → test → PR
```
### bug-fix `6 agents`
Paste a bug report. Get back a fix with a regression test. Triager reproduces it, investigator finds root cause, fixer patches, verifier confirms. Zero babysitting.
```
triage → investigate → setup → fix → verify → PR
```
---
## Why It Works
- **Deterministic workflows** — Same workflow, same steps, same order. Not "hopefully the agent remembers to test."
- **Agents verify each other** — The developer doesn't mark their own homework. A separate verifier checks every story against acceptance criteria.
- **Fresh context, every step** — Each agent gets a clean session. No context window bloat. No hallucinated state from 50 messages ago.
- **Retry and escalate** — Failed steps retry automatically. If retries exhaust, it escalates to you. Nothing fails silently.
---
## How It Works
1. **Define** — Agents and steps in YAML. Each agent gets a persona, workspace, and strict acceptance criteria. No ambiguity about who does what.
2. **Install** — One command provisions everything: agent workspaces, cron polling, subagent permissions. No Docker, no queues, no external services.
3. **Run** — Agents poll for work independently. Claim a step, do the work, pass context to the next agent. SQLite tracks state. Cron keeps it moving.
### Minimal by design
YAML + SQLite + cron. That's it. No Redis, no Kafka, no container orchestrator. Antfarm is a TypeScript CLI with zero external dependencies. It runs wherever OpenClaw runs.
### Built on the Ralph loop
Each agent runs in a fresh session with clean context. Memory persists through git history and progress files — the same autonomous loop pattern from [Ralph](https://github.com/snarktank/ralph), scaled to multi-agent workflows.
---
## Quick Example
```bash
$ antfarm workflow install feature-dev
✓ Installed workflow: feature-dev
$ antfarm workflow run feature-dev "Add user authentication with OAuth"
Run: a1fdf573
Workflow: feature-dev
Status: running
$ antfarm workflow status "OAuth"
Run: a1fdf573
Workflow: feature-dev
Steps:
[done ] plan (planner)
[done ] setup (setup)
[running] implement (developer) Stories: 3/7 done
[pending] verify (verifier)
[pending] test (tester)
[pending] pr (developer)
[pending] review (reviewer)
```
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## Build Your Own
The bundled workflows are starting points. Define your own agents, steps, retry logic, and verification gates in plain YAML and Markdown. If you can write a prompt, you can build a workflow.
```yaml
id: my-workflow
name: My Custom Workflow
agents:
- id: researcher
name: Researcher
workspace:
files:
AGENTS.md: agents/researcher/AGENTS.md
steps:
- id: research
agent: researcher
input: |
Research {{task}} and report findings.
Reply with STATUS: done and FINDINGS: ...
expects: "STATUS: done"
```
Full guide: [docs/creating-workflows.md](docs/creating-workflows.md)
---
## Security
You're installing agent teams that run code on your machine. We take that seriously.
- **Curated repo only** — Antfarm only installs workflows from the official [snarktank/antfarm](https://github.com/snarktank/antfarm) repository. No arbitrary remote sources.
- **Reviewed for prompt injection** — Every workflow is reviewed for prompt injection attacks and malicious agent files before merging.
- **Community contributions welcome** — Want to add a workflow? Submit a PR. All submissions go through careful security review before they ship.
- **Transparent by default** — Every workflow is plain YAML and Markdown. You can read exactly what each agent will do before you install it.
---
## Dashboard
Monitor runs, track step progress, and view agent output in real time.
```bash
antfarm dashboard # Start on port 3333
antfarm dashboard stop # Stop
antfarm dashboard status # Check status
```
---
## Commands
### Lifecycle
| Command | Description |
|---------|-------------|
| `antfarm install` | Install all bundled workflows |
| `antfarm uninstall [--force]` | Full teardown (agents, crons, DB) |
### Workflows
| Command | Description |
|---------|-------------|
| `antfarm workflow run Part of the OpenClaw ecosystem · Built by Ryan Carson