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hive

by aden-hive

Hive is an open-source platform for running colonies of AI agents that can perform real business tasks. Users can assign tasks to a queen agent, which then distributes the work among worker agents and tracks the results.

Ready to useEstablished, openly licensed, and no red flags in its documentation.

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Stars
11.1k
Licence
Apache-2.0
Runs on
A small server
Setup
Moderate
Language
Python
Age
287 days

What you can do with it

  • Assign tasks to AI agents
  • Monitor and manage the progress of tasks
  • Query and export results

Ways a business could use it

  • Automate customer service tasks
  • Generate marketing reports

Can you use it commercially?

Free to use, change and sell, including in paid products. Keep the copyright notice.

Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.

Getting it running

The quickstart script installs dependencies and sets up the environment.

Follow the official instructions in the project README.

Checked 26 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.

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