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hive is the always-on portal for the apiary. one address serves the whole dashboard. read what it is, who it's for, and where to start.

hive is the portal of the apiary. one always-on address, 127.0.0.1:3853, serves the whole dashboard by aggregating every other daemon's api. it stores nothing itself and degrades one panel at a time instead of the whole page.

#What is hive?

The apiary runs several services on your machine, each on its own port: honeycomb for memory, nectar for codebase understanding, doctor for supervision. Individually they're clean. Together they're a chore, several ports to remember, browser tabs each talking to a different address. hive fixes that.

hive is the single portal you open. One always-on address, http://127.0.0.1:3853, serves the entire dashboard for everything behind it: memories, projects, the memory graph, the code graph, sync, logs, ROI, and settings. You bookmark one address and never hunt for a port again.

#Who it is for

Anyone with an apiary install who wants one place to view memories, projects, graphs, sync, logs, ROI, and settings, instead of juggling tabs.

Operators diagnosing a service who want to see which daemon is unhappy without remoting into a terminal.

#What you actually get

One address for everything. Every dashboard page in the apiary lives at one origin.
Always on. hive is its own supervised process. It starts on boot, restarts on a crash, and is the last thing standing when something else is down.
Never a broken page. On a cold boot you get an honest readiness screen with one tile per service, and you land on the dashboard the moment the stack is ready.
Fails soft. If one service is down, its panel says so while the rest of the dashboard keeps working, and it recovers on its own.
Holds nothing. hive stores no token and no data of its own. It passes your session through to the services that own your data.
Local only. It binds to your machine, with no way to expose it to the network.

#Where to start

New here? Walk through Getting started to open the portal and read the health rail.
Want the mental model first? Read How hive works for the proxy and the landing gate.
Scripting or checking a route? The command reference covers every command and address.
Have a quick question? Check the FAQ.

#Common questions

Why does the address start with 127.0.0.1? That's your own machine. hive binds locally only, so nothing outside your device can reach it, and no account or cloud login is needed to view it.

Does hive store my credentials? No. hive passes your session through to the services that own your data and stores nothing itself.

Is hive part of a bigger product? Yes. hive is the portal of the apiary, the shared toolset that also includes honeycomb, nectar, and doctor. It installs with the rest of the stack and shows you the health of all of it in one place.