Tell Hivey what’s next.
Give Hivey the goal. It creates a new swarm or manages one already working, so you don’t have to prompt every team.
YOUR NEXT TEAM LIVES IN THE TERMINAL
All your AI swarms.
One terminal.
Stop prompting every swarm. Talk to Hivey. It creates and manages your swarms, each led by its own coordinator. One conversation to get things moving. A whole team behind it.
Claude Code + Codex·macOS + Linux·herdr terminal runtime
ONE LEAD. MANY POSSIBILITIES.
“I'll get the team together.”
build
3 agents↗
3 agents↗
research
2 agents↗
2 agents↗
review
2 agents↗
ILLUSTRATIVE WORKFLOW2 agents↗
HIVEY COORDINATESSWARMS HAVE LEADSOBSIDIAN REMEMBERSSLACK KEEPS YOU CLOSE
THE TOOLS AROUND YOUR TEAM
One workspace.
A whole toolkit.
Meet the agents, integrations, and extras that make Hivey yours. Explore each one below.
Claude CodeAgent support↗CodexAgent support↗SlackTeam conversations↗ObsidianWiki memory↗EnvSaveCredential retrieval↗SkyllsSeparate sharing platform ↗↗herdrTerminal runtime↗Skills & pluginsExtend your workspace↗Hivey pet & voiceOptional · macOS↗Swarm messagingConnected agents & teams↗Scheduled check-insWake idle coordinators↗Swarm whiteboardsPlanned↗
01 / A PLACE FOR EVERY SWARM
More ambition.
Less terminal juggling.
You talk to Hivey. Hivey manages the swarms.
Each swarm’s dedicated coordinator directs its agents, in its own terminal space.
YOUThe idea
→HIVEYCreates & manages swarms
→SWARM COORDINATORSOne lead per swarm
→AGENTSDo the work together
◆ coordinator · build● working
You → Hivey
Build the new onboarding flow. Bring in a reviewer.
◆ Hivey
The build swarm has its own space. The coordinator, builder, and reviewer are ready.
coordinatorbreaking down the task●
builderworking on the flow●
reviewerchecking the changes●
❯
Let the agents coordinate.
Agents message teammates. Coordinators connect with other swarms. A built-in message bus keeps deliveries queued and conversations logged.
Stay close. Or step away.
Detach from the terminal and reattach later. Your agents keep running on your machine.
CONNECTED TEAMS / SHARED CONTEXT
Separate workspaces.
A connected team.
Research shouldn’t stop at the research swarm.
Let agents exchange findings within their team, and let coordinators carry the conversation across swarms.
AGENT ↔ AGENT · COORDINATOR ↔ COORDINATOR
The right message.
To the right team.
Address a teammate, a role, or the whole swarm. Coordinators can message other swarms and their leads, so useful work reaches the team that needs it.
research / coordinator“The findings are ready for the build team.”
build / coordinator“I’ll pass them to the builder and reviewer.”
Queued delivery · Inboxes · Message history
Illustrative exchange. Cross-swarm messages go through coordinators.
Illustrative exchange. Cross-swarm messages go through coordinators.
PER-SWARM WHITEBOARDS PLANNED
A shared place
to think through the work.
A whiteboard for each swarm, bringing tasks, shared notes, and decisions into one view. Designed to give the team a common picture of what needs to happen next.
TO DO
Review research
coordinator
coordinator
IN PROGRESS
Build the flow
builder
builder
DECISIONS
Keep it simple
shared notes
shared notes
One board per swarm · Tasks + notes + decisions
Concept preview. Native whiteboard support is on the roadmap.
Concept preview. Native whiteboard support is on the roadmap.
02 / MEET YOUR LEAD AGENT
A little H.
A bigger kind of team.
Hivey gives your swarms a familiar face. The optional desktop pet reacts as agents start, finish, message, or need your attention.
Click the H and talk to the agent behind it. With voice enabled, Hivey can speak replies and important updates aloud. Your team has a voice, too.
DESKTOP PET AVAILABLE ON macOS
H
Quietly observant.
Very good at bringing a team together.
Meet HiveyA character introduction · 20 seconds
Hivey coordinates new and existing swarms, each in its own space. All your AI swarms, one terminal. Stylized introduction, not a screen recording.
#hiveyILLUSTRATIVE CONVERSATION
Message #hivey ↗
03 / OUT OF THE TERMINAL. IN THE LOOP.
Go live your life.
Check in from Slack.
Talk to Hivey in its Slack channel to manage the big picture. Each swarm also has its own channel, where you can talk directly to its dedicated coordinator. Go deeper only when you want to.
Set scheduled check-ins to wake a coordinator when it’s idle. Your machine stays on. You don’t have to stay at your desk.
04 / MEMORY THAT OUTLIVES THE CHAT
New session.
Same accumulated knowledge.
Give your swarms a memory you can open in Obsidian. Sources, findings, decisions, and reusable knowledge live in linked Markdown pages that agents maintain and return to.
Inspired by Karpathy’s LLM Wiki approach: keep the evidence, build a connected wiki, and give agents clear rules for maintaining it. The work can inform the next task.
Read the LLM Wiki memory approach ↗◇ Your swarm’s Obsidian vault ILLUSTRATIVE STRUCTURE
▾ swarm-memory/
├ AGENTS.md How to maintain memory
├ raw/ Original source material
└ wiki/
index.md Find what matters
decisions.md Keep the reasoning
lessons.md Carry knowledge forward
log.md Trace what changed
Sources→Linked knowledge→Next task
Readable by your agents. Editable by you.
05 / A SYSTEM YOU CAN MAKE YOURS
Your hive.
Your way of working.
A plugin-first system, built on the herdr terminal runtime.
Bring the agents, skills, integrations, and memory that fit your work.
Plugins at the center.
Swarm creation, dashboards, Slack, and skill management are extensible through plugins. Choose what belongs in your workspace.
Claude Code. Codex.
Run multiple agents with Claude Code and Codex support. Give each agent a role and keep its work in the right swarm.
Skills your team can use.
Hivey’s skill teaches supported agents to operate the workspace. Skill support makes repeatable workflows part of the team.
EnvSave for credentials.
Retrieve configured integration credentials with EnvSave instead of pasting API keys into swarm prompts. Keep secrets out of the conversation.
Updates with a voice.
Enable spoken replies and important updates through the macOS pet. Hear from Hivey while your attention is elsewhere.
Obsidian for memory.
Keep your agents’ wiki memory in local Obsidian vaults. Inspect the sources, browse the links, and build on what they learn.
Open source · Apache 2.0 · Built on herdr, with credit to its authors.
AVAILABLE NOW / OPEN SOURCE
Make room
for your next team.
Install Hivey from source on macOS or Linux. Then open your terminal and give your team its first goal.
FROM SOURCE
git clone https://github.com/alyssaaa11/hivey.git
cd hivey
./install.sh
hiveyRequires Git, Rust, Zig 0.16.0, Python 3, and Node.js. Hivey’s lead-agent setup uses Claude Code. Configure your agent access and optional integrations during setup.
READY FOR YOUR NEXT IDEA.
Your next idea
could use a swarm.
Start with a small task. Meet the team.
See what you can build together.
THE HOME OF HIVEYhivey.dev
A FEW GOOD QUESTIONS
Is Hivey a model?
No. Hivey is the coordinator of your swarms, running on the herdr terminal runtime. It creates and manages swarms; each swarm has a dedicated coordinating agent and workers using tools such as Claude Code and Codex.
Does it work while my laptop is closed?
Detaching the terminal leaves agents running, but the machine must stay awake and connected. Hivey is not a hosted service that keeps working after your computer sleeps.
Do I need the desktop pet?
No. The pet is optional and available on macOS. You can use the terminal workspace without it, or turn it off whenever you like.
Do I have to prompt every swarm?
No. Start with Hivey. It creates and manages the swarms for you. When you want to get into the details, you can also talk to a specific swarm’s coordinator in its terminal space or Slack channel.
Can I share a whole swarm?
Yes. Hivey integrates with Skylls, a separate website and tool that supports sharing skills, individual agents, and complete swarms with people you choose. Recipients and their agents can import those shared setups and adapt them. Access, installed tools, and credentials still need to be configured in their own environment.
Can different swarms communicate?
Yes. Agents can message teammates, while Hivey and swarm coordinators can send messages across swarms. Coordinators handle those cross-team handoffs, with a message history you can inspect.
How do I start?
Hivey is available now for macOS and Linux. Get the source from alyssaaa11/hivey on GitHub, install the prerequisites, then run the installer. The setup guide walks you through your agents and optional integrations.