Hive
Composable substrate for the agentic SDLC — user-directed, disciplined, kickoff to ship.
A Claude Code plugin that turns your project into a coordinated swarm of AI specialists with the discipline of a real software team — planning, design, execution, code review, test. Built at Firefly Events while shipping our own products. Open source.
What is Hive?
Hive structures AI-assisted software development into a repeatable, team-like workflow. Instead of chatting with a single assistant, you get:
- Specialized agents (analyst, architect, developer, tester, reviewer, etc.) that collaborate on your behalf
- Structured phases from kickoff to ship with built-in quality gates
- Persistent memory so agents learn from past sessions and projects
- Human-in-the-loop checkpoints where your judgment matters most
Think of it as giving your Claude Code session the discipline and coordination of a small software team — without the overhead.
Why use Hive?
If you've found that:
- AI coding assistants lose context on larger features
- You spend too much time re-explaining project details
- Testing and review feel ad-hoc or incomplete
- You want more reliable, repeatable results from AI-assisted work
...then Hive provides the scaffolding to make agentic development feel more like working with a competent team.
Quick Start
1. Prerequisites
- Claude Code CLI v2.1+ (install guide)
- Claude Code authentication: sign in normally, or use Anthropic's stored-secret flow if you want Claude Code to draw from your Anthropic subscription/API account
2. Install
# Inside any Claude Code session:
/plugin marketplace add firefly-events/plugin-hive
/plugin install plugin-hive@firefly-events/plugin-hive
3. Initialize your project
/hive:kickoff # Discovers codebase & generates team configs
4. Daily workflow
/hive:standup # Review yesterday, surface blockers
/hive:plan # Design → horizontal scan → vertical slice → agent-ready stories
/hive:execute # Orchestrator runs stories through dev workflow (research → implement → test → review → integrate)
/hive:review # Structured code review (correctness, security, conventions)
/hive:ship # Reconcile work, bump version, run release action, mark stories shipped
Each story produces a committed, reviewed state. The orchestrator handles coordination; you provide judgment at the planning and review gates.
Commands
Core workflow
/hive:kickoff — initialize Hive for a project/hive:standup — daily ceremony and blockers/hive:triage — capture and prioritize bugs/features/hive:plan — decompose work into agent-ready stories/hive:execute — run stories through implementation workflow/hive:review — structured code/PR review/hive:test — test swarm for coverage, execution, and bug routing/hive:ship — reconcile, bump version, run the release action, mark stories shipped/hive:status — active epics, story progress, and drift trend
Design & UI
/hive:brand-system — colors, typography, spacing, visual guide/hive:design — wireframes and design handoff/hive:design-system — W3C design tokens from brand system/hive:design-review — critique designs or implementations/hive:polish-audit — motion/delight opportunities after UI audit/hive:visual-qa — compare implementation against design briefs/hive:logo-exploration — generate logo directions and contact sheets
Project intelligence
/hive:context-snapshot — JSON snapshot of epics, stories, triage, metrics/hive:metrics-check — post-merge metric verdicts/hive:why — query decision provenance from the knowledge graph/hive:register-project — register a project for cross-project KG bootstrap/hive:find-skills — mine recurring patterns for new skills/hive:write-skill — scaffold a new skill from a brief/hive:meta-optimize — run public meta-improvement experiments
Optional Integrations
Hive works out of the box after /hive:kickoff. Add these only when you want the corresponding execution substrate:
/hive:multica-init — one-time Multica execution substrate setup/hive:sandbox-setup — one-time Sandcastle/Codex sandbox auth setup/hive:sandcastle-gh-init — GitHub Actions glue for Sandcastle execution
