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Honey Hive

by Green-PT in Green-PT/honey-for-devs

Decide when to delegate to Honey's read-only subagents (hive-scout, hive-reviewer) instead of working inline, so the expensive tokens — large file reads and review passes injected back into the…

MITAuto-check passedAgent Workflows

Install Honey Hive

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Green-PT/honey-for-devs --skill honey-hive -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Green-PT/honey-for-devs honey-hive --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Green-PT/honey-for-devs.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/honey-hive .claude/skills/honey-hive && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
honey-hive
GitHub stars
313
Token cost
~597 tokens
SKILL.md length
278 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
14
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Decide when to delegate to Honey's read-only subagents (hive-scout, hive-reviewer) instead of working inline, so the expensive tokens — large file reads and review passes injected back into the…

  • A task is search-heavy
  • SKILL.md covers When to delegate (any one holds), When NOT to (work inline), The crew and Reading a hive return (Lever…
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Spans many files

What it does

Honey Hive is an agent skill from Green-PT/honey-for-devs. Decide when to delegate to Honey's read-only subagents (hive-scout, hive-reviewer) instead of working inline, so the expensive tokens — large file reads and review passes injected back into the orchestrator's context — come back compressed (Honey Lever 3). Use when a task is search-heavy or review-heavy, spans many files, or you want to keep the orchestrator's context small. Not for trivial one-file work.

Its SKILL.md is about 600 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Agent Workflows, covering Subagents. The repository describes itself as: Honey (I Shrunk the AI) by GreenPT: a cross-tool coding skill that cuts AI coding-agent token usage and LLM API costs — write less code, less prose, and denser agent-to-agent… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • A task is search-heavy
  • Spans many files
  • You want to keep the orchestrators context small

Example prompts

  • “/honey-hive”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9169fc5. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    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

Honey Hive loads about 597 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 105 tokens; SKILL.md has 278 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~105
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~597

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

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

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 Green-PT/honey-for-devs at commit 9169fc5, republished under its MIT licence (© Green-PT). 278 words, ~597 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/honey-hive/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
honey-hive
description
Decide when to delegate to Honey's read-only subagents (hive-scout, hive-reviewer) instead of working inline, so the expensive tokens — large file reads and review passes injected back into the orchestrator's context — come back compressed (Honey Lever 3). Use when a task is search-heavy or review-heavy, spans many files, or you want to keep the orchestrator's context small. Not for trivial one-file work.
license
MIT

Honey Hive

Delegate the token-heavy reading; keep the thinking. A subagent's return is injected back into your context — Honey's hive returns it as a compressed Lever-3 handoff, so the most expensive tokens in an agentic session shrink ~25–55% with no loss the orchestrator can use.

When to delegate (any one holds)

  • Search-heavy — "where is X / who calls Y / find all Z" across many files → hive-scout.
  • Review-heavy — review a diff or file set for bugs and bloat → hive-reviewer.
  • Context-preserving — the read would dump many files into your context but you need only the conclusions.
  • Parallel — independent locate/review jobs that can run at once.

When NOT to (work inline)

  • One known file, a trivial edit, or content you already have in context.
  • Dispatch + return overhead would exceed just reading it yourself (a file or two).
  • You need the full file body, not a map.

The crew is read-only by design — they locate and review; you decide and edit.

The crew

AgentDoesReturns
hive-scoutlocate symbols / callers / configs / patternscompact id-keyed JSON map
hive-reviewerreview diff/files for bugs + over-engineering + verbositycolumnar id-keyed JSON findings

Reading a hive return (Lever 3, in reverse)

Every return is compact/columnar JSON, records addressed by a stable id, with an n count. Read it as data:

  • Address by id, never "the 3rd finding" — ordinal lookup misparses, frontier models included.
  • Aggregate in code — to count or filter, do it programmatically; don't eyeball rows.
  • Check n against the rows you received — a dense misparse is silent.
  • Safety carve-out — auth / money / migration / delete findings come back explicit, not slugged. Treat them verbatim.

ESON is opt-in: ask for it only on a high-volume, cached review pipe you own end-to-end.

© Green-PT, MIT. 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 skills/honey-hive of Green-PT/honey-for-devs.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9169fc5

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Categories

Questions about Honey Hive

What does Honey Hive do?

Decide when to delegate to Honey's read-only subagents (hive-scout, hive-reviewer) instead of working inline, so the expensive tokens — large file reads and review passes injected back into the…. Honey Hive is an agent skill from Green-PT/honey-for-devs. Decide when to delegate to Honey's read-only subagents (hive-scout, hive-reviewer) instead of working inline, so the expensive tokens — large file reads and review passes injected back into the orchestrator's context — come back compressed (Honey Lever 3).

When should I use Honey Hive?

Honey Hive fits situations like: A task is search-heavy; spans many files; you want to keep the orchestrators context small.

How do I install Honey Hive in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Green-PT/honey-for-devs --skill honey-hive -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/honey-hive in Green-PT/honey-for-devs) into .claude/skills/honey-hive in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Honey Hive in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Green-PT/honey-for-devs --skill honey-hive -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/honey-hive in Green-PT/honey-for-devs) into .agents/skills/honey-hive in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Honey Hive in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add Green-PT/honey-for-devs --skill honey-hive -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/honey-hive, .gemini/skills/honey-hive, .github/skills/honey-hive and .opencode/skills/honey-hive in your project.

What does Honey Hive need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Honey Hive is instructions for the agent only.

Does Honey Hive access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Honey Hive safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Honey Hive use?

Honey Hive is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Honey Hive use?

About 597 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Honey Hive?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Honey Hive: Claude Code Agent Development (anthropics/claude-plugins-official, 38k stars), Create Agent (vectorize-io/hindsight, 48k stars), Swarm Parallel Dispatch (langchain-ai/langchain-skills, 1.3k stars) and Fable Foreman (olsenbrands/fable-foreman, 143 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Honey Hive?

Green-PT (a GitHub organization) maintains it in Green-PT/honey-for-devs, which has 313 GitHub stars. The repository holds 14 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 7, 2026.

Source: Green-PT/honey-for-devs on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.