Hivemind Goals

What it does

When your agent uses it

• The user mentions a goal
• Asks to track progress on something measurable
• The user says task
• Any actionable work item — the goal system replaced the legacy hivemind tasks CLI and now covers both objectives and tasks

Example prompts

• “work item”
• “remind me to”
• “/hivemind-goals”

Requirements

• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): hivemind_search, hivemind_read, hivemind_index, hivemind_goal_add

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1(Optional) hivemind_search first to surface any existing related goal.
2. 2hivemind_goal_add({ text: "" }) — capture the returned goal_id.
3. 3Confirm to the user with the goal_id and that the goal is team-visible.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit e054fb1. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • hivemind_search
  • hivemind_read
  • hivemind_index
  • hivemind_goal_add

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Hivemind Goals loads about 805 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 102 tokens; SKILL.md has 332 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~102

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~805

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from activeloopai/hivemind at commit e054fb1, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© activeloopai). 332 words, ~805 tokens.

name

hivemind-goals

description

Create, track, and read team goals via Hivemind from openclaw. Use whenever the user mentions a goal, objective, target, milestone, or asks to track progress on something measurable. ALSO use when the user says "task", "todo", "work item", "remind me to", "fix X", or any actionable work item — the goal system replaced the legacy `hivemind tasks` CLI and now covers both objectives and tasks.

allowed-tools

hivemind_search, hivemind_read, hivemind_index, hivemind_goal_add

hivemind_goal_add({ text:
  "Add rate-limiting to the webhook handler\n\n" +
  "Start here: add a per-IP token bucket on the handler entry path\n" +
  "Files: src/webhook/handler.ts:120-160, src/webhook/limits.ts\n" +
  "Branch: feat/webhook-hardening\n" +
  "Run: pnpm test webhook\n" +
  "Why: bursty clients hammer the endpoint; defer until retry-backoff lands" })

© activeloopai, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in harnesses/openclaw/skills/hivemind-goals of activeloopai/hivemind.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit e054fb1