Hive

Hive is an agent harness for production workloads that handles state management, failure recovery, observability, and human oversight.

OpenHive is a zero-setup, model-agnostic runtime for colonies of agents that execute business processes. A Queen acts as the persistent, client-facing lead and spawns worker clones on demand to run work reliably and at scale. The colony coordinates through a shared ledger and a persistent plan, featuring crash-safe state, deep observability, and human oversight. Hive is built for teams moving AI agents from prototype to production where uptime, cost, and auditability matter. It supports Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, and other models through LiteLLM-compatible providers, and connects to business systems via MCP.

Hive at a glance

Best for: Software engineer
Runs on: Web, macOS, Windows, Linux, API, self-hosted, open source
Pricing: Free and open source under the Apache License 2.0
Released: January 2026
Category: AI agent tool
Website: github.com/aden-hive/hive

Key features

Colonies of agents that spawn worker clones on demand
Single execution primitive with no graph to wire
Shared tracker ledger and persistent task plan
Queen personas with CEO-style routing and scoped memory
Crash-safe park and resume with cost enforcement
Out-of-band human-in-the-loop sentinel oversight
General compute use and browser use with native extension
Custom model and provider support

Use it for

Run long-running agents that need state persistence and crash recovery
Execute production workloads requiring cost enforcement and audit trails
Run parallel multi-agent work coordinated through a shared ledger
Automate complex business processes with adaptive agents

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