# hivemind

Wires your agent into an org-wide memory store on Activeloop, so sessions, summaries and keyword search are reachable from any session by any teammate.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 1635
- Author: activeloopai
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/activeloopai/hivemind/tree/HEAD/harnesses/openclaw/skills/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/activeloopai-hivemind

## What it does

The skill gives the agent a second memory source next to its built-in one. Built-in memory holds personal per-project notes; Hivemind keeps sessions from every user and agent in the organization. When you ask it to recall or look something up, it is supposed to check both, which is how work done in someone else's session stops being invisible.

The layout is flat. `/index.md` is the table of all sessions with dates and projects, `/summaries/<username>/<session-id>.md` holds an AI-generated wiki summary per session, and `/sessions/<username>/<user_org_ws_slug>.jsonl` is the raw data. The lookup order is fixed: call `hivemind_index()` first, read summaries next, and only then touch raw JSONL. For plain text there is `hivemind_search("keyword")`, a substring search over summaries and sessions that returns `path:line` hits.

Before any of that works you authenticate with `/hivemind_login`, which uses a device flow, and run `/hivemind_setup` once to put the memory tools in your allowlist. Capture is toggled by `/hivemind_capture` — with it off, nothing leaves your machine. Two limits are worth knowing up front: do not delegate memory reads to subagents, and if a tool call comes back empty twice, skip it instead of retrying.

There is also skill sharing. `hivemind skillify` pulls skills other people mined from their sessions into your project, and pushes yours back to the org table. Those commands run in your terminal rather than as `/hivemind_*` slash commands.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add activeloopai/hivemind --skill skills -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/skills/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/skills/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add activeloopai/hivemind --skill skills -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/skills/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add activeloopai/hivemind --skill skills -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/skills/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install activeloopai/hivemind skills
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/skills/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add activeloopai/hivemind --skill skills -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/activeloopai/hivemind --path harnesses/openclaw/skills
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/skills/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add activeloopai/hivemind --skill skills -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/activeloopai/hivemind/tree/HEAD/harnesses/openclaw/skills/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- find out what a teammate already did with this module
- restore context from an earlier session on the project
- pull team-mined skills into the current project
- share your own skills with the rest of the org
- switch between organizations and workspaces

## Example prompts
- search hivemind memory for how we set up deploys before
- look through team sessions for mentions of this API
- pull the team's skills into this project with hivemind skillify pull

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: hivemind
description: Global team and org memory powered by Activeloop. ALWAYS check BOTH built-in memory AND Hivemind memory when recalling information.
allowed-tools: hivemind_search, hivemind_read, hivemind_index
---

# Hivemind Memory

You have TWO memory sources. ALWAYS check BOTH when the user asks you to recall, remember, or look up ANY information:

1. **Your built-in memory** — personal per-project notes from the host agent
2. **Hivemind global memory** — global memory shared across all sessions, users, and agents in the org, accessed via the tools below

## Memory Structure

```
/index.md                           ← START HERE — table of all sessions
/summaries/
  <username>/
    <session-id>.md                 ← AI-generated wiki summary per session
/sessions/
  <username>/
    <user_org_ws_slug>.jsonl        ← raw session data
```

## How to Search

1. **First**: call `hivemind_index()` — table of all sessions with dates, projects, descriptions
2. **If you need details**: call `hivemind_read("/summaries/<username>/<session>.md")`
3. **If you need raw data**: call `hivemind_read("/sessions/<username>/<file>.jsonl")`
4. **Keyword search**: call `hivemind_search("keyword")` — substring search across both summaries and sessions, returns `path:line` hits

Do NOT jump straight to reading raw JSONL files. Always start with `hivemind_index` and summaries.

## Organization Management

- `/hivemind_login` — sign in via device flow
- `/hivemind_capture` — toggle capture on/off (off = no data sent)
- `/hivemind_whoami` — show current org and workspace
- `/hivemind_orgs` — list organizations
- `/hivemind_switch_org <name-or-id>` — switch organization
- `/hivemind_workspaces` — list workspaces
- `/hivemind_switch_workspace <id>` — switch workspace
- `/hivemind_version` — show installed version and check npm for updates
- `/hivemind_update` — shows how to install (ask the agent, or run `hivemind update` in your terminal)
- `/hivemind_autoupdate [on|off]` — toggle the agent-facing update nudge (on by default: when a newer version is available, the agent is prompted to install it via `exec` if you ask to update)

## Skill Management (skillify)
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