Claude Flow treats memory as the backbone and MCP tools as the hands. You get concurrent agents that coordinate cleanly, keep context tight, and ship durable artifacts without dragging long text through prompts. It feels like an ops layer for intelligence.
The stack is simple. Claude Code as the client. Claude Flow as the MCP server. SQLite memory at .swarm/memory.db for state, events, patterns, workflow checkpoints, and consensus. Artifacts hold the big payloads. Manifests in memory link everything with ids, tags, and checksums.
Coordination is explicit. Agents write hints to a shared blackboard, gate risky steps behind consensus, and record every transition as an event. Hooks inject minimal context before tools run and persist verified outcomes after. Small bundles in, durable facts out.
Planning keeps runs stable. Use GOAP to sequence actions with clear preconditions. Use OODA to shorten loops.
Observe metrics, orient with patterns, decide through votes, act with orchestration. Topology adapts from hi