Agent skill

hive-mind

Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus and distributed coordination. Queen-led hierarchical swarm management with multiple consensus strategies. Use when: distributed coordination, fault-tolerant operations, multi-agent consensus, collective decision making. Skip when: single-agent tasks, simple operations, local-only work.

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Install this agent skill to your Project

npx add-skill https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/tree/main/.agents/skills/hive-mind

SKILL.md

Hive-Mind Skill

Purpose

Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus and distributed swarm coordination.

When to Trigger

  • Multi-agent distributed tasks
  • Fault-tolerant operations needed
  • Collective decision making
  • Complex coordination patterns

Topologies

Topology Description Use Case
hierarchical Queen controls workers Default, anti-drift
mesh Fully connected peers Research, exploration
hierarchical-mesh Hybrid Recommended for complex
adaptive Dynamic based on load Auto-scaling

Consensus Strategies

Strategy Tolerance Use Case
byzantine f < n/3 faulty Untrusted environment
raft f < n/2 faulty Leader-based, consistent
gossip Eventual Large scale, availability
crdt Conflict-free Concurrent updates
quorum Configurable Tunable consistency

Commands

Initialize Hive-Mind

bash
npx claude-flow hive-mind init --topology hierarchical-mesh --consensus raft

Spawn Queen

bash
npx claude-flow hive-mind spawn --role queen --name coordinator

Check Consensus Status

bash
npx claude-flow hive-mind consensus --status

View Sessions

bash
npx claude-flow hive-mind sessions --active

Best Practices

  1. Use hierarchical for coding tasks (anti-drift)
  2. Use raft consensus for consistency
  3. Keep agent count under 8 for coordination
  4. Run frequent checkpoints

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