Hive Note-Taking

Hive Note-Taking is an AI Engineering 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

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Install Hive Note-Taking

Copy Hive Note-Taking 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/note-taking ~/.claude/skills/note-taking

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/note-taking/SKILL.md in aden-hive/hive
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/note-taking
Collection: One of 24 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Hive Note-Taking does

Hive Note-Taking maintains a free-form scratchpad of decisions, extracted values, and open questions so context pruning doesn't lose anything you still need. Use it to record working data and reasoning between agent tool calls.

Hive Note-Taking is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Hive Note-Taking comes from a repository tagged agent, agent-framework, agent-skills, anthropic and automation.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

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:

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

Frequently asked about Hive Note-Taking

What else does aden-hive publish alongside Hive Note-Taking?
Hive Note-Taking 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 Hive Note-Taking 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 Hive Note-Taking compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Hive Note-Taking ranks #376 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. 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 Hive Note-Taking against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.