Quick Start

Install

Claude Code (recommended)

claude plugin add EntityProcess/hivespec

Manual Installation

Copy the skills/ directory from the HiveSpec repo to your project:

# Clone and copy skills
git clone https://github.com/EntityProcess/hivespec.git /tmp/hivespec
cp -r /tmp/hivespec/skills/ .claude/skills/hivespec/

Usage

Tell your agent to pick up the next issue:

Pick up the next issue from the backlog and start the HiveSpec lifecycle.

The agent will follow the phases automatically, skipping phases that aren’t needed for the scope of the change.

The Swarm

HiveSpec is a single-agent protocol. The swarm emerges from the coordination layer.

Any agent — Claude, Codex, Copilot, Pi — claims an issue from a shared board (GitHub Projects, Linear, Jira). It runs the HiveSpec lifecycle independently. Ships a PR. Picks up the next issue.

Ten agents running HiveSpec concurrently on the same repo is a swarm that delivers like a well-run team. The board is the coordination. HiveSpec is the discipline.