Hive Note Taking Agent Skill
Maintain a free-form scratchpad of decisions, extracted values, and open questions so context pruning doesn't lose anything you still need.
Install
one command, takes just this skill from the repositorynpx skills add https://github.com/aden-hive/hive --skill hive.note-takingThe instruction itself
5 sections, as written by the authorOperational Protocol: Structured Note-Taking
Maintain free-form working notes in shared buffer key _working_notes for data that *you* need to remember but that isn't captured by the colony task queue.
Do not duplicate the queue in here. Per-task goal, ordered steps, and SOP gates live in progress.db — use hive.colony-progress-tracker for those. These notes are for things the DB schema doesn't cover.
Update at these checkpoints:
- After receiving new information that changes how you plan to approach the current step
- Before any tool call that will produce substantial output you'll need to reference later
- When you make a non-obvious decision whose *why* would be lost if the tool call history gets pruned
Structure:
Key Decisions — decisions made and WHY
Working Data — intermediate results, extracted values (URLs, IDs, key snippets — not full pages)
Open Questions — uncertainties you plan to verify
Blockers — anything preventing progress that isn't already captured in tasks.last_error
Update incrementally — do not rewrite from scratch each time.
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How to use it
Take aden-hive/hive.note-taking from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal
use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.
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.