Find where your multi-agent AI system breaks — before production does.
Static reliability testing for CrewAI, LangGraph, AutoGen, and custom agent systems. No live LLM calls, no API cost.
The problem
Chain 14 agents at 95% reliability each and your system is ~49% reliable end-to-end (0.95^14). The failures aren't inside any single agent — they're in how they connect: silent cascade failures, hidden single points of failure, fragile dependencies. swarm-test finds them by analyzing your agent topology.
Quickstart
pip install swarm-test swarm-test run my_crew.py --open
--open launches an interactive D3 dashboard in your browser the moment the run finishes — Swarm Score, force-directed agent graph with single-points-of-failure pulsing red, sortable health and redundancy tables, and every finding grouped by severity.
No real script handy? Build a synthetic topology straight from the CLI:
swarm-test run -a "Orchestrator,Worker1,Worker2" -e "Orchestrator>Worker1,Orchestrator>Worker2"
What it catches
- One agent fails and silently takes down everything downstream — cascade failure
- A single agent the whole system depends on; remove it and the swarm splits — blast radius / SPOF
- Credentials, PII, or other sensitive data leaking across agent boundaries — context leakage
- Agents drifting from their assigned role; prompt-injection-style goal hijacking — intent drift
- A slow upstream with no timeout boundary blocking the whole pipeline — timeout resilience
- Dense cliques, echo chambers, and cycles that bypass the orchestrator — collusion detection
- Agents stuck in loops — runaway step counts and retry storms that burn tokens with no error thrown — trajectory analysis
- Output schema mismatches across agent edges — contract violation (opt-in; provide a contracts YAML)
Features
- 0–100 Swarm Score with a verdict line (EXCELLENT → CRITICAL) — one-line output for CI
- Agent role classification (orchestrator, aggregator, validator, gateway, worker, monitor, router) with confidence scores
- Role-adjusted severity — a validator leaking context is upgraded; an orchestrator's blast radius is downgraded
- Historical tracking — trend across runs, diffs new vs. resolved findings
- Interactive HTML report (
--open) — D3 force-directed graph, NxN heatmap, filterable findings - GitHub Action with PR annotations and job-summary score
- Graph export to Mermaid, DOT, or PNG (SPOFs red, redundant green)
- Framework adapters: CrewAI, LangGraph, AutoGen, generic / static graph
- YAML config (
.swarmtest.yml) and entry-point plugin system
CI gate (GitHub Action)
# .github/workflows/swarm-test.yml on: [pull_request] jobs: swarm-test: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 - uses: surajkumar811/swarm-test@v0.3.0 with: script: my_crew.py fail-on-severity: high
Findings appear inline on the PR as ::error:: / ::warning:: / ::notice:: annotations; the Swarm Score is posted to the workflow job summary.
Using it from Python
from swarm_test import SwarmProbe # Works with a CrewAI Crew, LangGraph CompiledGraph, or AutoGen GroupChatManager probe = SwarmProbe(crew, swarm_name="my-crew") report = probe.run_all() report.print_summary() report.to_html("report.html")
Installation
pip install swarm-test # or with framework extras: pip install "swarm-test[crewai]" pip install "swarm-test[langgraph]" pip install "swarm-test[autogen]" pip install "swarm-test[png]" # for PNG graph export
How it works
swarm-test builds a NetworkX directed graph from your agent system — nodes are agents, edges are interactions extracted by each framework adapter. All tests are static graph analyses; no LLM calls are made, and results are deterministic given the same topology.
- Cascade failure — simulates each agent failing in turn and measures downstream impact.
- Blast radius — detects articulation points (graph-theoretic SPOFs) and scores every agent on a 0–100 redundancy scale composed of path redundancy (30%), role uniqueness (25%), tool coverage (20%), betweenness centrality (15%), and degree ratio (10%).
- Context leakage — scans interaction payloads against a sensitive-data regex set extensible from
.swarmtest.yml. - Intent drift — flags agents whose observed behavior diverges from their declared role; includes prompt-injection heuristics.
- Collusion — finds dense cliques, echo chambers, and cycles that bypass the declared orchestrator.
- Timeout resilience — identifies long synchronous chains with no timeout boundary.
- Trajectory analysis — flags self-loops, ping-pong pairs, multi-agent feedback cycles, unbounded loops with no exit, repeated parallel calls, and cycles deeper than
max_trajectory_depth(default 5). - Contract violation — validates agent outputs against JSON schemas declared per edge (opt-in; pass
--contracts contracts.yml).
Roles are classified from structural metrics (in/out degree, betweenness centrality) plus naming hints, each with a 0–100% confidence score. Severity is then role-adjusted: an orchestrator with high blast radius is expected and gets downgraded; a validator leaking context is a security incident and gets upgraded.
Output modes & formats
| Flag | Output |
|---|---|
--quiet / -q |
Headline verdict only (one line). Ideal for if checks in CI scripts. |
| (default) | Headline + test results + critical/high findings + SPOFs. |
--verbose / -V |
Every finding, graph metrics, full health and redundancy tables. |
Output formats via --output-format: console, json, markdown, html. The same verbosity setting is configurable in .swarmtest.yml.
Graph export
swarm-test graph my_crew.py --format mermaid
swarm-test graph my_crew.py --format dot --output topology.dot
swarm-test graph my_crew.py --format png --output topology.png # needs the [png] extraMermaid renders inline on GitHub, so you can drop the output straight into a README or PR description. Colors: red = SPOF, orange = moderate redundancy, green = fully redundant.
Historical tracking
Every run writes a small JSON snapshot to .swarmtest-history/. Subsequent runs print a trend line below the headline verdict:
Swarm Score: 72/100 — NEEDS IMPROVEMENT (3 critical findings)
Trend: ↑ +18 from last run (was 54) — improving
Recent: 54 → 61 → 58 → 72
✓ 3 findings resolved since last run
⚠ 1 new finding since last run
Browse with swarm-test history show. Disable per-run with --no-history, or globally via history_enabled: false in .swarmtest.yml. .swarmtest-history/ is gitignored by default; commit it if you want the trend to survive across CI machines.
Configuration (.swarmtest.yml)
fail_on_severity: high # critical | high | medium | low | info | none max_blast_radius: 0.5 # 0.0 – 1.0 disabled_tests: - collusion sensitive_patterns: - "INTERNAL-[A-Z0-9]+" output_format: html output_path: ./swarm.html timeout_seconds: 30 strict: false # treat ANY finding as a failure
Auto-discovers .swarmtest.yml, .swarmtest.yaml, swarmtest.yml, or a [tool.swarmtest] table in pyproject.toml. CLI flags always override config-file values. Exit codes from run: 0 (passed), 1 (findings exceed thresholds), 2 (config or runtime error).
Plugin system
Ship custom tests as installable Python packages. Register under the swarm_test.plugins entry-point group; swarm-test auto-discovers and runs them alongside the built-in tests:
[project.entry-points."swarm_test.plugins"] my_custom_test = "my_package.plugins:MyPlugin"
See examples/plugin_template/ for a runnable starter.
Framework examples (CrewAI, LangGraph, AutoGen, static)
# CrewAI from crewai import Crew from swarm_test import SwarmProbe SwarmProbe(crew, swarm_name="my-crew").run_all().print_summary() # LangGraph from langgraph.graph import StateGraph from swarm_test import SwarmProbe SwarmProbe(compiled_graph, swarm_name="my-langgraph").run_all().to_json("report.json") # AutoGen from autogen import GroupChatManager from swarm_test import SwarmProbe SwarmProbe(manager, swarm_name="my-autogen").run_all().print_summary() # Static graph (no live framework) from swarm_test import SwarmProbe, AgentNode, InteractionEvent, EventType a = AgentNode(name="Fetcher", role="researcher") b = AgentNode(name="Summarizer", role="writer") SwarmProbe( swarm_name="my-swarm", agents=[a, b], events=[InteractionEvent(source_agent_id=a.id, target_agent_id=b.id, event_type=EventType.TASK_DELEGATE)], ).run_all().print_summary()
Links
- PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/swarm-test/ —
pip install swarm-test - Issues: https://github.com/surajkumar811/swarm-test/issues
- License: MIT — free and open source
If swarm-test catches a real bug for you, please star the repo — it helps other teams find it.





















