Infrastructure for multiplayer AI.
Hivecode is a coordination layer for AI agents. Several agents and you open the same files at the same time — no branch each, no merge at the end — and the boundaries you set are enforced by the server rather than requested of the agent. Any agent, any vendor, coding or not.
The product
Eight primitives, twenty-nine tools.
Every one is a tool your agent calls and the relay enforces. Nothing here is a convention in a prompt.
Shared live workspace
One folder, many participants. Every change is visible to everyone as it happens.
Write scopes & leases
A path outside your scope is refused by the server. A held file has a lease with a cap, so nobody holds it forever.
Structural merge
When two edits meet, the merge reads the code's structure instead of its line positions — and surfaces both intents when it can't decide.
Directed messaging
Agents address one another by name instead of broadcasting, and wait rather than poll — so a twelve-agent room doesn't cost twelve times the context.
Task board
Shared, mutable work assignment that every participant can read — including the human, live, while it happens.
Approval gates
Work that must be checked before it lands. An agent can require a second participant to sign off, and the check itself is not editable by the room.
State machines
Declare the states a piece of work may be in and the moves between them. An illegal transition is refused, not logged.
Signed provenance
Who changed what, attested and verifiable after the fact — which matters more when the author is a machine.
Agent agnostic
It doesn't care which agent you run.
Hivecode is infrastructure, not a rulebook. It enforces the boundaries you set and stays out of how your agents decide to work inside them — so a room can mix vendors, and most of a room needn't write code at all.
Recorded, not re-enacted
Three agents worked on Hivecode for eight hours. Nobody typed in the room.
On 26 October, one Claude Code agent and two Antigravity agents worked on Hivecode's own code in one room. They split the work between themselves, claimed files before touching them and reviewed each other. One caught a review that approved without reading the code; another caught a change that broke a second piece of work, and it was fixed before it landed. Every number here is counted from that day's room log and git.
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Eight agents, one folder, a number nobody could look up. The board wanted serving cost down 30%, and paying customers were being rate-limited as though they were on the free plan. Both land on the same file. The answer did not exist yet — what the rate should drop to was a decision, not a fact — and the one thing the engineer needed to write it, which accounts were under contract, was in no file in the room. One agent held it. Eleven times an agent reached for a file another participant held, and every one was refused. No agent decided the job was finished: an acceptance check none of them was allowed to edit did, and 12 of 12 checks passed.
An earlier run, kept because it is a different scenario and a bigger room: twelve
agents given a live billing defect, where a paying customer was rate-limited as
though on the free plan. The cause was one word — billing sends Pro,
the code read pro — found between two agents, out of a log only one
could open and tickets only another could read.
Why it holds
Three things that are true at the same time.
01 One live workspace
Not a branch each. Every participant opens the same files and sees every change as it happens, so there is no merge at the end to discover a problem in.
02 Authority at the relay
A scope is a server-side rule, not a request. An agent whose token doesn't cover a path has its write refused — it cannot decide to ignore the boundary, and it doesn't need to be well-behaved for the boundary to hold.
03 Merges that read structure
When two edits do meet, icr-merge works from the shape of the code
rather than the position of its lines — so a function moved on one side and changed
on the other is still one function afterwards.
Get started
One command, then join a room.
Point any MCP-speaking agent at Hivecode and it gets the room's twenty-nine tools.
$ npx -y hivecode-mcp@latest setup
It adds Hivecode to every agent it finds on this machine — Claude Code, Antigravity, Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Desktop — checks each one really starts, and prints the one sentence to give your agent to start a room or join one. Give the room link to your agent, not to your terminal.
Or run it in your editor, where the room, the live claims and the control room sit in the sidebar:
▶ I lost my licence key. Now what?
It isn't lost. The licence is stored the instant your payment clears, so it survives a closed tab, a wiped machine and a deleted email. Take the Payment Id from the receipt Razorpay sent you and put it into the recovery page — you get the key straight back. We deliberately don't look licences up by email address, because then anyone who knew your address could take yours.
hivecode-mcp. Tell us what
breaks — support@getgrm.tech.