Colony Progress Tracker

Colony Progress Tracker is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by aden-hive in hive.

10.9K stars5.7K forkson aden-hive/hiveAdded 2026/08/15Repository updated 2026/08/13

agentagent-frameworkagent-skillsanthropicautomationautonomous-agentsclaudeharnessharness-engineeringhuman-in-the-loopopenaipythonself-hostedself-improving

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Install Colony Progress Tracker

Copy Colony Progress Tracker into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/aden-hive/hive/tree/main/core/framework/skills/_default_skills/colony-progress-tracker ~/.claude/skills/colony-progress-tracker

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/aden-hive/hive.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: core/framework/skills/_default_skills/colony-progress-tracker/SKILL.md in aden-hive/hive
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/colony-progress-tracker
Collection: One of 24 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Colony Progress Tracker does

Colony Progress Tracker claims tasks, records step progress, and verifies SOP gates in a shared SQLite queue. Use when your spawn message includes db_path and colony_id fields.

Colony Progress Tracker is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Colony Progress Tracker comes from a repository tagged agent, agent-framework, agent-skills, anthropic and automation.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Operational Protocol: Colony Progress Tracker

Applies when your spawn message has db_path: and colony_id: fields. The DB is your durable working memory — tells you what's done, what to skip, which SOP gates you owe.

Access via terminal_exec running sqlite3 "<db_path>" "...". Tables: tasks (queue), steps (per-task decomposition), sop_checklist (hard gates).

Claim: assigned task (check this FIRST)

If your spawn message includes a task_id: field, the queen pre-assigned a specific row to you. Claim that row by id — do not use the generic next-pending pattern below:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Colony Progress Tracker

What else does aden-hive publish alongside Colony Progress Tracker?
Colony Progress Tracker is one of 24 skills that DirSkills catalogs from aden-hive/hive, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Background Job Control, Browser Edge Cases and Chart Creation Foundations. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Colony Progress Tracker does, and is maintained by aden-hive in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the aden-hive/hive page.
How does Colony Progress Tracker compare to other Automation skills?
Colony Progress Tracker ranks #158 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Colony Progress Tracker against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.