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Hive Context Preservation

aden-hive/hive.context-preservation

Proactively extract critical values from tool results into working notes before automatic context pruning destroys them.

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Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository 
npx skills add https://github.com/aden-hive/hive --skill hive.context-preservation

The instruction itself

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Operational Protocol: Context Preservation

You operate under a finite context window. Older tool results WILL be pruned. Extract what you need while it's still in context.

Save-as-you-go. After any tool call producing information you'll need later, immediately extract the key data into _working_notes or _preserved_data. Do not rely on referring back to old tool results — once they're pruned they're gone.

What to extract:

  • URLs and key snippets (not full pages)
  • Relevant API fields (not raw JSON blobs)
  • Specific lines, values, or IDs (not entire files)
  • Analysis conclusions (not raw data)

Handoffs between tasks happen through progress.db, not through shared-buffer handoff blobs. When you finish a task, any state the next worker needs goes into the task row itself (steps.evidence, tasks.last_error, sop_checklist.note) — see hive.colony-progress-tracker. Use _working_notes for things the DB schema doesn't cover.

You will receive an alert when context reaches {{warn_at_usage_ratio_pct}}% — preserve immediately.

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take aden-hive/hive.context-preservation from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.