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May 8, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

How Claude Code’s Agent Swarms Use Unix Domain Sockets to Run 10 AIs Concurrently

This article deep‑dives into Claude Code’s Agent Swarms, explaining why Unix Domain Sockets replace HTTP for intra‑process communication, how three‑stage address parsing, filesystem‑based mailbox queues, various spawn modes, AgentId design, graceful shutdown, plan‑mode approval and common pitfalls together enable reliable, low‑latency coordination of multiple LLM agents.