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HiveHive

A shared LLM workspace for developers. Bring your own subscription (Claude, OpenAI, OpenRouter, Ollama, aider, pi, or any local agent), collaborate with peers on real work — code, commits, reviews — and keep your data local-first.

The Hive workspace

Why Hive

Most "AI for code" tools assume one developer, one model, one machine. Hive flips that:

  • Multiple peers, one workspace. Alice's Claude subscription and Bob's Ollama instance can both participate in the same chat, reviewing each other's proposals.
  • Bring your own agent. Aider, pi, Claude Code, or any CLI agent you trust can act as a workspace participant. Hive doesn't recreate agent logic — it hosts what you bring.
  • Local-first, P2P sync. Workspaces sync directly between peers over a tiny optional relay. No central server holds your content.
  • Nothing runs behind your back. Installed MCP servers stay inert until you enable them, Claude Code respects its own permission mode, and agent changes arrive as proposals you review before implementing.

What's in here

  • Getting started

    First launch, configuring runtimes, your first chat.

    Start here

  • Concepts

    Workspaces, agents, MCP tools, permissions, identity.

    Read the model

  • Networking & relay

    How peers find each other; setting up your own relay.

    Networking

  • Addon agents

    Wire aider, pi, or any subprocess agent as a workspace participant.

    BYO agents

Built with

Hive is a Tauri v2 desktop app — a Rust backend (crates/hive-core, hive-runtime, hive-relay, plus app/) with a React + TypeScript frontend (web/). One codebase ships macOS, Windows, and Linux. State is an append-only event log in SQLite; replies stream from your chosen runtime (the claude CLI by default — bring your own subscription).

Project status

Pre-release. The multi-runtime workspace + relay-forwarded multiuser sync are in place. Build from source with cargo tauri build (see Building the dist); run a relay from github.com/honeyhive-ai/relay (or cargo run -p hive-relay locally against the in-repo reference crate). Release builds are unsigned for now — run from source or click through your OS's first-launch prompt.

The reference relay is MIT-licensed and lives at crates/hive-relay/ (a small axum service). Direct peer-to-peer sync is implemented with iroh (see the Direct peers (P2P) section in Settings) and falls back to relay forwarding when a direct connection can't be established. The collaborative-text CRDT is a tracked follow-up.