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<h3 align="center">An open-source runtime for colonies of AI agents that do real business work.</h3>

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  Tell a queen agent what you need. She does the first piece herself to learn what the job takes, then hands the rest to as many parallel workers as it needs. Every result lands in a shared tracker you can query, audit and resume from.
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  <sub>A real run. Only the typing and the waiting are sped up, and the badge says by how much. <a href="docs/assets/readme/demo.mp4">Watch the full run (MP4)</a>.</sub>
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## What you just watched

A growth team preparing a Show HN wants to know how five developer tools' own launches did on Hacker News. Here's what Hive did with that one message:

1. **You hand it to a queen.** Queens are long-lived agents with a role (here, Head of Growth) and their own memory and tools.
2. **She asks the one question that changes the answer:** every launch post, or only each product's original launch? You pick every launch, and she carries on.
3. **She proposes a colony, and you approve it.** Five products means five parallel jobs, so the chat becomes a colony: the queen plus as many worker agents as the work needs.
4. **She does one herself.** She takes PostHog first, works out what c