swival: A small, powerful, open-source CLI coding agent that works with open models

by Swival · MCP Server · ★ 353

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How to install swival

uv tool install swival

Taken from the project's README on GitHub.

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 63/100

None of the 42 rules matched — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against 42 published rules built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours.

The quality score combines nine heuristic checks of the repo and its README: completeness, clarity, specificity, examples, structure, agent readiness, step-by-step content, instruction quality and security notes. It rates how well the project explains itself to an agent, not the code.

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Quick Facts

Stars353
Forks26
LanguagePython
CategoryMCP Server
LicenseMIT
Quality Score63/100
Open Issues3
Last Updated2026-11-05
Created2026-02-24
Platformscli, mcp, python
Est. Tokens~17k

About swival

Swival A coding agent for any model. Documentation Swival is a CLI coding agent built to be practical, reliable, and easy to use. It works with frontier models, but its main goal is to be as reliable as possible with smaller models, including local ones. It is designed from the ground up to handle tight context windows and limited resources without falling apart.

Compatible Skills

These tools work well together with swival for enhanced workflows:

  • clauder — semantic(0.15)+complementary+rare_topics+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (55%)
  • fast-resume — semantic(0.27)+complementary+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (55%)
  • tunacode — semantic(0.26)+complementary+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (54%)

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How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy: 42 published rules, covering credential harvesting, data exfiltration, curl | sh installers and more. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.

The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.

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