# Hive.note Taking

Maintain a free-form scratchpad of decisions, extracted values, and open questions so...

- Repository: https://github.com/aden-hive/hive (11131 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: Apache-2.0
- Last updated: 2026-10-26
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add aden-hive/hive --skill hive.note-taking -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add aden-hive/hive --skill hive.note-taking -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add aden-hive/hive --skill hive.note-taking -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add aden-hive/hive --skill hive.note-taking -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

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

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

## 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.