Apiary FAQ
Short answers to the common questions about the whole Apiary suite. For product-specific questions, see each product's own FAQ.
Apiary FAQ
Short answers to the common questions about the whole Apiary suite. For product-specific questions, see each product's own FAQ.
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#What is the Apiary in one sentence?
A stack of small programs that give your AI coding agents one shared, lasting memory on hardware you control.
#Do I have to install all five products?
No. One command installs the four local products, Honeycomb, Nectar, Hive, and Doctor, which work together out of the box. Queen, the cloud orchestrator, is a separate layer you add only when your stack spreads across many machines.
#Do I need to know databases or SQL?
No. You install with one command, sign in with a click, and use plain commands. The machinery is hidden behind a dashboard.
#Which AI coding assistants work with it?
Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex are supported today. Hermes, pi, and OpenClaw are in progress. A memory written from one is recalled by the others.
#Where does my data live?
In your own store, which you control and can host in your own cloud. The local helpers are the only things that talk to it. Companies, teams, and projects are separated at the storage layer.
#Does the Apiary send my code or prompts anywhere?
Almost nothing leaves your machine. The only outbound traffic is the sign-in with your storage provider and, optionally, anonymous usage counts that never include your code, prompts, memories, file paths, or names. Turn them off with DO_NOT_TRACK=1.
#Is it free? What license is it under?
The Apiary is released under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.0 or later. You can read the source, run it commercially or privately, and audit exactly what it does.
#What keeps it running if something crashes?
Doctor, the watchdog, is installed by default. Your operating system keeps Doctor alive, and Doctor keeps everything else alive. Skip it with --no-doctor if you would rather be your own on-call.
#Can I use it across multiple machines?
Yes. Sign in on each machine with the same account. When a fleet gets large enough to need central identity, presence, and reporting, that is what Queen adds.
#Who makes the Apiary?
A collaboration between Legion Code and Activeloop. Activeloop provides Deep Lake and Hivemind; Legion Code adds the multi-tier memory, the skill sharing, the self-tidying loop, and the daemons.