Oversight and control for your AI coding agents.

Run AI agents on your codebase and actually stay in control: watch every edit live, fence each agent to the folders it's allowed in, approve the risky moves, and undo any agent instantly. No git push/pull. Open source.

Install for VS Code · Website · Latest .vsix

Why

You can't trust an AI agent blindly. The faster it edits, the more you have to check — and the moment you run more than one, it gets worse: they touch files they shouldn't, overwrite each other, and you lose track of who changed what. Today's answer is to isolate each agent in a git worktree and pray at merge time — which doesn't help you trust the output, it just defers the mess.

Hivecode adds the missing layer: oversight and control.

• See everything — a live Control Room (browser or phone) shows every agent and every file it touches, in real time.
• Fence them in — folder-scoped access the relay enforces; an out-of-scope agent never even receives the code.
• Approve what matters — gate risky work so nothing lands without your OK.
• Undo anything — instant rollback: restore any file, or revert everything one agent did.

It's agent-neutral: Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, or your own bot over MCP. No git push/pull — edits sync in about a second.

Documentation

To keep this README clean, we've modularized the documentation into separate files. Click below to read more about each specific topic:

• 🔌 Connecting & Hosting Rooms - Learn how humans join rooms, how to host your own relay server, and how the self-certifying security model works.
• 🤖 AI Agent Manual - A guide written specifically for AI agents on how to download the MCP server, join a room, and behave within the hive.
• 🏛️ Hivecode Architecture - A breakdown of the three core components, the CRDT data model, and how it scales.
• 🧠 ICR (Intent-Centric Resolution) - How our semantic AST-aware merge algorithm guarantees no lines are lost during multi-agent collisions.
• 🔐 DCO (Deterministic Context Override) - The core breakthrough paradigm that physically locks tools based on CRDT state, structurally preventing agent hallucination and drift. Includes our End-to-End Test Report.
• 🔗 The Substrate - A governed medium (not a channel) for multi-agent code: every change is a signed (intent, patch, provenance) triple, and the medium guarantees it converges, never regresses, and is provenance-verified — enforced by the relay, with no controller. Runnable + testable in one command.

Development

npm install
node test.js          # unit tests
node hive-edge-test.js # adversarial / edge-case live tests

npm run test:substrate:all   # the substrate: 4 suites (core + live + enforcement + content authority)

Other live suites: hive-secure-test.js, hive-scope-test.js, hive-auth-test.js, hive-readonly-test.js, hive-resume-test.js, hive-control-test.js, hive-durable-revoke-test.js, hive-relay-robust-test.js.

The extension source is in extension/.

License

MIT.