“The state-tracking fix from this issue was correctly applied — task_assign now transitions tasks to in_progress. However, agents never execute the assigned work.”

— nriccar, on GitHub · Issue #1397, introduction

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From “Swarm agents still do not execute work — v3.5.42 (@claude-flow/cli@latest)”, found 2026-10-14.

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Seven agents reported as spawned, none did anything, and no file appeared. Closed as a duplicate of #1423, which PR #1435 fixed in March 2026. This shows v3.5.42, not later releases.

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