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Hive Note Taking

aden-hive/hive.note-taking

Maintain a free-form scratchpad of decisions, extracted values, and open questions so context pruning doesn't lose anything you still need.

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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.note-taking

The instruction itself

5 sections, as written by the author

Operational 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.

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take aden-hive/hive.note-taking 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.