{"id":"the-swarm-corporation-swarms-tools","name":"swarms-tools","homepage":"https://docs.swarms.world","repo_url":"https://github.com/The-Swarm-Corporation/swarms-tools","category":"devtools","subcategories":[],"tags":["python","agents","tools","mcp","multi-agent","httpx","data-integration","web-scraping","social-media","finance"],"what_it_does":"Swarms Tools is a Python package that provides a collection of pre-built utilities/tools intended for agent use. Based on the README structure and examples, it includes finance/market data tools (e.g., HTX, stock news, Yahoo Finance, CoinGecko, DeFi TVL), social/media integrations (Telegram, Twitter/X, web scraping), and developer tools (GitHub automation, a code executor), plus a tool orchestration helper (tool_chainer) for sequential/parallel execution.","use_cases":["Augmenting LLM/agent workflows with external data (market data, news, crypto/DeFi metrics)","Automating social and messaging tasks (e.g., Telegram DM/tag, Twitter/X posting via a plugin interface)","Scraping web content for downstream analysis","Agent-assisted developer workflows (GitHub repository operations, lightweight code execution for automation)","Orchestrating multiple tools in parallel or sequence within a multi-agent workflow"],"not_for":["Production-grade security-sensitive automation without reviewing tool implementations and dependency supply chain","Use cases requiring a documented, first-class public REST/GraphQL API contract","Environments that require explicit rate-limit and retry/idempotency guarantees from the library itself"],"best_when":"You want ready-made Python functions/classes to call external services from within an agent and you can supply required credentials for the specific integrations you enable.","avoid_when":"You cannot audit the underlying tool implementations (especially for web scraping and any code-execution capability) or you require strong, documented operational guarantees (rate limits, retry behavior, idempotency, structured error codes).","alternatives":["LangChain tools / community integrations","Autogen / AutoGPT-style tool wrappers tailored to specific APIs","Direct API SDKs for each provider (CoinGecko, DefiLlama, GitHub, Telegram, etc.)","Custom lightweight httpx-based wrappers with your own observability and retry/idempotency policies"],"af_score":39.8,"security_score":45.8,"reliability_score":25.0,"package_type":"mcp_server","discovery_source":["github"],"priority":"high","status":"evaluated","version_evaluated":null,"last_evaluated":"2026-03-30T15:25:50.796085+00:00","interface":{"has_rest_api":false,"has_graphql":false,"has_grpc":false,"has_mcp_server":true,"mcp_server_url":null,"has_sdk":true,"sdk_languages":["Python"],"openapi_spec_url":null,"webhooks":false},"auth":{"methods":["API keys / secret values via options or environment variables (implied by examples such as TWITTER_* credentials)","Potentially provider-specific tokens for each integrated service (not fully specified in README)"],"oauth":false,"scopes":false,"notes":"The README shows credentials passed through an options dict and loaded from env vars for TwitterTool. There is no evidence in the provided content of OAuth flows or fine-grained scopes being managed by the library itself."},"pricing":{"model":null,"free_tier_exists":false,"free_tier_limits":null,"paid_tiers":[],"requires_credit_card":false,"estimated_workload_costs":null,"notes":"README indicates installation via pip; no pricing details are provided for the package itself."},"requirements":{"requires_signup":false,"requires_credit_card":false,"domain_verification":false,"data_residency":[],"compliance":[],"min_contract":null},"agent_readiness":{"af_score":39.8,"security_score":45.8,"reliability_score":25.0,"mcp_server_quality":35.0,"documentation_accuracy":55.0,"error_message_quality":0.0,"error_message_notes":null,"auth_complexity":55.0,"rate_limit_clarity":10.0,"tls_enforcement":70.0,"auth_strength":40.0,"scope_granularity":20.0,"dependency_hygiene":45.0,"secret_handling":55.0,"security_notes":"Based on the README examples, credentials are expected via environment variables/options (reasonable practice), but the provided content does not confirm TLS/HTTPS enforcement, secure secret logging behavior, fine-grained authorization scopes, or robust error handling that avoids leaking secrets. The package depends on several broad libraries (e.g., httpx, mcp, lxml, backoff, orjson); dependency health/CVEs are not verifiable from the provided data.","uptime_documented":0.0,"version_stability":45.0,"breaking_changes_history":35.0,"error_recovery":20.0,"idempotency_support":"false","idempotency_notes":null,"pagination_style":"none","retry_guidance_documented":false,"known_agent_gotchas":["The package integrates many third-party services; failures may propagate from upstream APIs, requiring agent-side retry/backoff handling.","A 'code executor' and social posting tools increase operational risk; ensure you understand safety controls and sandboxing before agent use.","Web scraping may be sensitive to robots.txt, rate limits, and HTML structure changes; agent workflows should handle extraction failures gracefully."]}}