hive.note-taking

hive.note-taking is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aden-hive/hive. It costs 30 tokens per session (280 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A scratchpad for recording decisions, extracted values, uncertainties, and blockers during a task. It is separate from the task queue, which stores goals and ordered work steps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to keep URLs, IDs, key snippets, decisions and their reasons, unresolved questions, and other working information that does not belong in the task database.
Why use it?
It helps preserve useful context when older conversation details are removed or shortened. This prevents important reasoning, identifiers, and open questions from being forgotten.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aden-hive/hive/note-taking
Any agent
npx skills add aden-hive/hive --skill note-taking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aden-hive/hive

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 280 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00030 $0.00280
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00140
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00056
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00028

Measured 4d ago against content hash 476f7e41ac1a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hive.note-taking scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

core/framework/skills/_default_skills/note-taking/SKILL.md · 30 lines

What it actually says

Operational Protocol: Structured Note-Taking

Maintain free-form working notes in shared buffer key _working_notes for data that you need to remember but that isn't captured by the colony task queue.

Do not duplicate the queue in here. Per-task goal, ordered steps, and SOP gates live in progress.db — use hive.colony-progress-tracker for those. These notes are for things the DB schema doesn't cover.

Update at these checkpoints:

  • After receiving new information that changes how you plan to approach the current step
  • Before any tool call that will produce substantial output you'll need to reference later
  • When you make a non-obvious decision whose why would be lost if the tool call history gets pruned

Structure:

Key Decisions — decisions made and WHY

Working Data — intermediate results, extracted values (URLs, IDs, key snippets — not full pages)

Open Questions — uncertainties you plan to verify

Blockers — anything preventing progress that isn't already captured in tasks.last_error

Update incrementally — do not rewrite from scratch each time.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 30 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 476f7e41ac1a

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hive.note-taking is a skill published in the GitHub repository aden-hive/hive (11,013 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 280 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.