Developer Builds LangGraph-Inspired Multi-Agent Framework for Swift

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A developer named Christopher Karani has released Swarm, an open-source Swift framework inspired by LangGraph, a Python-based library for building multi-agent AI workflows. The project was shared on Hacker News under the 'Show HN' category, inviting community feedback. Swarm aims to bring similar graph-based agent orchestration capabilities to the Swift ecosystem. The repository is publicly available on GitHub for developers interested in building AI agent pipelines on Apple platforms. At the time of posting, the submission had received 5 points and 2 comments on Hacker News.

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