HIVE gives you 11 specialized squads β each with its own persona, memory, and skills β orchestrated by an AI Chief of Staff.
The real leverage is in Phase 3 β but building that infrastructure from scratch takes months. HIVE is the architecture, ready to clone.
ChatGPT, prompts, personal productivity. Useful, but individual.
APIs, automations, one-off workflows. Still reactive, still stitched together.
Systems with context, memory, and specialized agents that work like a team.
HIVE is a folder structure and a set of conventions. No framework lock-in β just Claude Code, markdown, and Python.
Each squad is a Claude Code agent with its own CLAUDE.md, STATE.md, decisions log, and skills.
Four primitives that make HIVE feel like a team, not a chatbot.
Each squad's CLAUDE.md defines its persona, scope, and rules. Claude Code loads it when you navigate to the squad folder β no copy-pasting prompts.
STATE.md keeps live operational state in L1 (now) / L2 (in progress) / L3 (backlog). Decisions, gotchas, and project memory persist indefinitely.
9 hooks handle session branches, squad routing, state updates, and incident lookups β without you managing any of it manually.
Invoke with /skill-name. /hive-setup, /open-squad, /status, /close-squad β and any custom skill you write for your company.
Clone, install Claude Code, run setup. That's it.
# 1. Clone git clone https://github.com/felipeluissalgueiro/hive.git my-company cd my-company # 2. Install Claude Code (if you haven't) curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | sh # 3. Open and run onboarding claude /hive-setup # That's it. Now open a squad: /open-squad commercial /status