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Hive Skills
Hive skills are HivemindOS-native procedures. They teach agents how to use the hive’s own memory, tools, apps, runtimes, projects, and workflows.
These skills are auto-installed into the shared brain because they are foundational.
| Skill | Purpose |
|---|---|
hive-assimilate |
Mandatory pre-build search across shared brain, user projects, local/private indexes, and public GitHub before software creation. |
hive-pulse |
Built-in last-30-days signal briefs across Reddit, X, YouTube, TikTok, Hacker News, Polymarket, GitHub, and web sources, powered by a pinned MIT licensed last30days engine. |
hive-capability-search |
Discovers available tools, skills, apps, agents, credentials by key name, and delivery channels such as slash commands, API routes, MCP tools, CLIs, and dashboard surfaces for a task. |
hive-skill-fusion |
Turns a capability request into a reusable shared-brain skill. |
hive-workflow-fusion |
Composes multi-step hive workflows from skills, apps, agents, and tools. |
hive-aeon-fusion |
Converts reusable hive workflows into AEON-ready agent duties when appropriate. |
hive-brain-memory |
Teaches agents how to recall typed Shared Brain Memory, write durable reviewed facts, and evolve stale memories while preserving superseded history. |
hive-brain-compiled-wiki |
Teaches agents how to compile durable findings into HivemindOS entity/concept/summary wiki pages, search/query the compiled graph through MCP, repair wiki health, and respect human collective shared-brain mirrors without restricting normal agent-to-agent work. |
Supporting Hive Search Commands
There is no separate packaged skill named hive-find or hive-search in this repo. The canonical shared-brain search surface is the installed hive-brain CLI:
hive-brain answer "query"
hive-brain recall "query" --scope full-vault --limit 8
hive-brain evolve --memory-id mem-... --content "Updated durable memory"
hive-brain answer returns a concise grounded answer. hive-brain recall returns a hit list. Both try the running HivemindOS brain API first and fall back to local vault/index search, so raw agents can use the same private brain without needing dashboard-routed context. hive-brain evolve is the API-backed write path for replacing reviewed stale memory while preserving superseded history. Use the auto-installed hive-brain-memory skill for the full recall/remember/evolve policy.
For durable synthesized wiki knowledge, use the auto-installed hive-brain-compiled-wiki skill instead of broad recall. It teaches agents to call brain_search_knowledge first for compiled entity, concept, and summary pages, then follow up with brain_get_node, brain_get_backlinks, or brain_graph_overview when they need graph detail.
Hive Assimilate
hive-assimilate is the default build gate for software work.
Agents using it should search in this order:
- User-pinned sources, such as a repo, path, PR, note, or shared skill.
- Shared brain recall with
hive-brain answer "<query>" --scope full-vault. - Relevant current workspace files, docs, tests, and conventions.
- User project roots when relevant and bounded.
- Local/private assimilation indexes.
- Public GitHub candidates, star-sorted for broad discovery.
The skill writes ASSIMILATION_LOG.md, ASSIMILATION_LOG.jsonl, and optional ASSIMILATION.json in the target project so agents can review what was searched, reused, or rejected.
Existing local candidate caches remain valid so project references do not break.
Hive Pulse
hive-pulse is the default Hive research pulse for current public signal.
It ships in packaged-skills/auto-install/hive-pulse/ with the pinned MIT licensed mvanhorn/last30days-skill engine bundled inside the skill. Fresh setup copies it into the shared brain, so agents do not need a separate upstream install before running a pulse brief.
Setup also installs the hive-pulse command shim. The shim loads shared Hive env keys, defaults browser-cookie reads off, uses the zero-config source set, supplies a deterministic query plan, and selects local deterministic judging unless the user explicitly configures an LLM provider.
The default posture is read-only research. Reddit public paths, Hacker News, Polymarket public odds, GitHub public search, and available web paths can work without extra setup. User-owned keys or browser sessions expand coverage for X, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Threads, Pinterest, and richer web providers. Agents must check credentials by key name only and must not print secret values.
Source provenance and audit notes live in:
packaged-skills/auto-install/hive-pulse/.hivemind-skill-source.json
Source Of Truth
The repository source is:
packaged-skills/auto-install/hive-assimilate/SKILL.md
packaged-skills/auto-install/hive-pulse/SKILL.md
packaged-skills/auto-install/hive-brain-memory/SKILL.md
packaged-skills/auto-install/hive-brain-compiled-wiki/SKILL.md
Setup mirrors it into the shared brain at:
Skills/hive-assimilate/SKILL.md
Skills/hive-pulse/SKILL.md
Skills/hive-brain-memory/SKILL.md
Skills/hive-brain-compiled-wiki/SKILL.md
Do not create duplicate shared-brain copies of the same Hive skill. If an imported runtime carries an equivalent workflow under another name, keep hive-assimilate as the canonical shared-brain skill.
Token Savings
Hive skills are also cost controls. See Token And Cost Savings for the full loop: hive-brain recall, hive-capability-search, hive-assimilate, karpathy-guidelines, Hive Fusion, and runtime usage analytics.