Hive command reference

Hive's commands, routes, and service units. Grounded in the Hive technical manual.

Hive command reference

Hive's commands, routes, and service units. Grounded in the Hive technical manual.

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#Commands

Four verbs; hive start is the default.

Command Purpose
hive start Run the portal daemon on 127.0.0.1:3853.
hive install-service Install the OS service unit, then register with Doctor.
hive uninstall-service Remove the OS service unit. Does not remove the Doctor registry entry.
hive register Add or update Hive's entry in Doctor's daemon registry.

#Dashboard pages

/, /projects, /harnesses, /memories, /graph, /hive-graph, /sync, /logs, /health, /roi, and /settings, plus the gate-exempt /buzzing readiness screen and /login.

#Portal endpoints

Route Purpose
GET /health Liveness JSON, or the health page when the request accepts HTML.
GET /api/fleet-status A projection of Doctor's status page.
GET /api/registered-services The services in Doctor's registry file.
GET /api/telemetry/stream A server-sent-events relay of Doctor's health stream.
ALL /api/*, ALL /setup/* The proxy, to Honeycomb or Nectar.

#OS service units

Platform Manager Unit
macOS launchd, user domain com.legioncode.hive
Linux systemd, user hive.service
Windows Scheduled Task task hive

#Surfaces

Hive has two surfaces only: the dashboard at http://127.0.0.1:3853, and its HTTP portal API. It ships no MCP server and no SDK.