hive-coordination

hive-coordination is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from intertwine/hive-orchestrator. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,276 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to coordinating several agents and projects in Hive, an orchestration system for shared work. It explains task claims, dependencies, handoffs, campaigns, blockers, and shared project information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding available tasks, claiming time-limited work, linking dependencies, handing tasks from one agent to another, and tracking larger groups of related projects.
Why use it?
It prevents agents from duplicating work or starting tasks that depend on unfinished work. It also gives teams a consistent place to record task status and ownership.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Finding available tasks, claiming time-limited work, linking dependencies, handing tasks from one agent to another, and tracking larger groups of related projects.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/intertwine/hive-orchestrator/hive-coordination
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.

Any agent
npx skills add intertwine/hive-orchestrator --skill hive-coordination
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/intertwine/hive-orchestrator

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,276 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00035 $0.01276
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00638
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00255
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00128

Measured 8d ago against content hash e99b7998578f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hive-coordination 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 8d 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.

skills/hive-coordination/SKILL.md · 190 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hive Coordination

This skill covers how agents work together and how work is orchestrated across projects.

Multi-Agent Task Coordination

Agents coordinate on canonical task state in .hive/tasks/*.md, not on prose or checkboxes.

Core tools

hive task ready --json                                      # what is available
hive task claim <id> --owner <name> --ttl-minutes 30 --json # take a lease
hive task release <id> --json                               # give it back
hive task link <src> blocked_by <dst> --json                # declare dependency
hive deps --json                                            # blocker summary
hive context startup --project <id> --task <id> --json      # build context for one task

Pattern: Sequential Handoff

When one task should unlock another:

hive task link <implement-task> blocked_by <research-task> --json
  1. Agent A claims and completes the research task
  2. Agent A releases it, marks it done
  3. The implement task enters the ready queue automatically
  4. Agent B claims and continues

Pattern: Parallel Independent Work

When several tasks can run simultaneously:

hive task ready --project-id <project-id> --json

Each agent claims a different task. Avoid overlapping file ownership when possible.

Pattern: Review Loop

When work needs evaluator gates:

hive run start <task-id> --json         # agent implements
hive run eval <run-id> --json           # evaluator checks
hive run accept <run-id> --json         # reviewer approves

One agent implements, another reviews artifacts, a human accepts or escalates.

Common Mistakes

  • Flipping owner in AGENCY.md instead of using hive task claim
  • Using checkbox text as the dependency graph instead of task links
  • Skipping PROGRAM.md when runs or evaluators are involved
  • Leaving long-lived claims after the work is done

Campaigns

Campaigns orchestrate multiple tasks across a project with scheduling and lane-based allocation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 190 lines

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. 8d ago First seen · 190 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A e99b7998578f

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hive-coordination is a skill published in the GitHub repository intertwine/hive-orchestrator (23 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,276 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.

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