Claude Flow MCP Server

An agent meta-harness for Claude Code and Codex. 📖 RuFlo Explained - Build an AI Team That Plans, Remembers, Tests, and Improves A 14-chapter guide: from the basic idea to a first useful task, then memory, agent teams, plugins, cost and verification. It runs locally over stdio via the published package.

People who work with swarm, agentic ai and autonomous agents and want it reachable from Claude, Cursor, VS Code, or another MCP client. The project is written in TypeScript.

VERIFIED ACTIVE

LAST COMMIT 2026-09-18 · ★ 72,753 · #1 OF 227 MAINTAINED AUTOMATION · VERIFIED 2026-09-18

MIT · TypeScript servers · how we verify → /methodology

01 · Install Claude Flow

before you install - you'll need

The README does not document required environment variables for a basic install.

Claude Code

claude mcp add ruvnet-claude-flow -- npx -y claude-flow

Claude Desktop / Cursor / VS Code - add to config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ruvnet-claude-flow": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "claude-flow"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Same JSON for Cursor. For VS Code, rename the top-level key from `mcpServers` to `servers`.

Using another client? Same JSON, different key

Claude Desktop · mcpServers

Cursor · mcpServers

VS Code · servers

Windsurf · mcpServers

Zed · context_servers

Cline · mcpServers

Roo Code · mcpServers

Continue · mcpServers

LibreChat · mcpServers

Gemini CLI · mcpServers

Codex CLI · mcp_servers

Full setup guides: every client.

02 · Evidence

Security posture

What to check before giving this server access to your agent - from the registry, GitHub, and our own probes. We don't score safety; we show what's verifiable.

runs as local process (stdio) - runs on your machine with your user's permissions

license MIT - declared in the repository

npm package claude-flow - unscoped; check the name against the project README before installing

registry namespace io.github.ruvnet is GitHub-verified and matches the repo owner

03 · What Claude Flow can do

Prose above is summarized from the project's README and registry record - no invented capabilities.

Latest releases

v3.42.4 · 2026-09-17

What changed · Fixes Finding B of #3327: memory_search({ smart: true }) was reporting SmartRetrieval's internal RRF fusion score in the similarity field instead of the underlying retrieval relevance score - e.g. a raw…

v3.42.3 · 2026-09-16

Fixes · quote-aware split for RUFLO_HOOK_CLI_OVERRIDE (#3344) - the test-only CLI-override parser in plugins/ruflo-core/scripts/ruflo-hook.cjs did a naive .split(' '), which broke process.execPath into C:\Program plus…

v3.42.1 · 2026-09-16

v3.42.1 - SONA env-default, review batch, and reliability fixes · A patch release: one small feature (opt-in, fully backward-compatible) plus a batch of independently-reviewed bug fixes, a performance fix, and a…

04 · Who maintains Claude Flow

claude-flow is maintained by ruvnet. We track 3 MCP servers from ruvnet - 2 actively maintained, 73,238 combined GitHub stars, oldest repo from Jun 2025. Full record: all servers from ruvnet.

05 · Facts

repository: github.com/ruvnet/claude-flow
category: automation - ranked #1 of 227 actively-maintained automation servers as of 2026-09-18.
release cadence: 10+ releases in the last 90 days (latest 2026-09-17)
registry: io.github.ruvnet/claude-flow (active, first published 2025-09-10 · 4 versions)
packages: npm:claude-flow

06 · Claude Flow FAQ

What is Claude Flow?

Is Claude Flow still maintained?

Yes - as of 2026-09-18, its last commit was 2026-09-18 and it shipped 10+ releases in the last 90 days. We re-verify nightly.

How do I install Claude Flow?

Run `npx -y claude-flow`. The README does not document required environment variables for a basic install. You can also paste the ready-made client config above.

Does Claude Flow run locally?

Yes - it's a stdio server: it runs on your machine (via npx) with your user's permissions. Your data stays local unless the server itself calls external APIs.

07 · Alternatives to Claude Flow

Alternatives to Claude Flow

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