What is hive-project-setup?

A guide for setting up Hive workspaces, projects, tasks, and execution rules. Hive is a system that organizes and governs work done by people and AI agents.

Creating a workspace, adopting an existing repository, migrating older Hive data, creating projects, adding starter tasks, and setting project execution policies.

It removes the guesswork from starting a new Hive workspace or bringing an existing code repository into Hive. It also explains how to configure task defaults and evaluation rules.

hive-project-setup — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by intertwine

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-project-setup

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/intertwine/hive-orchestrator

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,342 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00041	$0.01342
Opus 5	$0.00020	$0.00671
Sonnet 5	$0.00008	$0.00268
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00134

Measured 8d ago against content hash a44bed4349ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

hive-project-setup scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

- rm -rf /

skills/hive-project-setup/SKILL.md · 208 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 208 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hive Project Setup

This skill covers workspace bootstrap, project creation, task management, and evaluator configuration.

Bootstrap a New Workspace

Full onboarding (recommended)

hive onboard <project-slug> --json

This creates:

.hive/ substrate directory with cache and task storage
projects/<slug>/AGENCY.md — narrative project document
projects/<slug>/PROGRAM.md — execution policy with forgiving defaults
3–5 starter tasks with dependency chains
local-smoke evaluator template
Workspace checkpoint commit

Default PROGRAM.md uses forgiving settings so the first hive finish succeeds cleanly:

auto_close_task: true
allow_accept_without_changes: true

Tighten these for production use.

Minimal init

hive init --json

Creates the .hive/ layout only. No starter project or tasks.

Adopt an existing repo

hive adopt <project-slug> --json

Wraps existing v1 state and enables v2 features incrementally.

Migrate from v1

hive migrate v1-to-v2 --dry-run --json     # preview
hive migrate v1-to-v2 --project <id> --json # execute

Create and Manage Projects

hive project create <slug> --title "Project title" --json
hive project list --json
hive project show <project-id> --json
hive project sync --json

Each project gets:

projects/<slug>/AGENCY.md — write narrative context here (objective, notes, recommended flow)
projects/<slug>/PROGRAM.md — define execution policy here

Create and Manage Tasks

Task CRUD

hive task create --project-id <id> --title "Task title" --json
hive task create --project-id <id> --title "..." --status ready --json
hive task list --project-id <id> --json
hive task list --status ready --status review --json
hive task show <task-id> --json
hive task update <task-id> --status in_progress --priority 1 --json
hive task update <task-id> --title "New title" --label "bug" --json

Task status flow

proposed → ready → claimed → in_progress → review → done

Read the full file on GitHub · 208 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.

8d ago First seen · 208 lines · 41 tokens per session scan C a44bed4349ac

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hive-project-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository intertwine/hive-orchestrator (23 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,342 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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