Deploying Multi-Agent Swarms with Ruflo: Beyond Single-Prompt Coding

Multi-agent AI swarms overcome the limitations of single-prompt coding by enabling role specialization, parallelism, and coordinated task handoffs. Ruflo (ruvnet/ruflo) is a Node.js orchestration framework for building such swarms. The tutorial walks through setting up a two-agent TDD swarm: a Test Writer agent generates Jest tests first, then a Code Writer agent implements code to satisfy them. Key topics include agent configuration with scoped system prompts and tool bindings, handoff rules with context modes (full/summary/filtered), error handling with retries and fallback agents, token budget management, and CI/CD pipeline integration. A deployment readiness checklist and guidance on scaling to additional agents (Reviewer, Docs, Refactor) round out the guide.