# Hive Note Taking

> Maintain a free-form scratchpad of decisions, extracted values, and open questions so context pruning doesn't lose anything you still need.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-aden-hive-hive-note-taking`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [aden-hive](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/aden-hive)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [AI & ML](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/ai-and-ml)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Upstream author:** [aden-hive](https://github.com/aden-hive)
- **Source:** https://github.com/aden-hive/hive/tree/main/core/framework/skills/_default_skills/note-taking

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-aden-hive-hive-note-taking
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

## Operational Protocol: Structured Note-Taking

Maintain free-form working notes in shared buffer key `_working_notes` for data that *you* need to remember but that isn't captured by the colony task queue.

**Do not duplicate the queue in here.** Per-task goal, ordered steps, and SOP gates live in `progress.db` — use `hive.colony-progress-tracker` for those. These notes are for things the DB schema doesn't cover.

Update at these checkpoints:

- After receiving new information that changes how you plan to approach the current step
- Before any tool call that will produce substantial output you'll need to reference later
- When you make a non-obvious decision whose *why* would be lost if the tool call history gets pruned

Structure:

### Key Decisions — decisions made and WHY
### Working Data — intermediate results, extracted values (URLs, IDs, key snippets — not full pages)
### Open Questions — uncertainties you plan to verify
### Blockers — anything preventing progress that isn't already captured in `tasks.last_error`

Update incrementally — do not rewrite from scratch each time.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [aden-hive](https://github.com/aden-hive)
- **Source:** [aden-hive/hive](https://github.com/aden-hive/hive)
- **License:** Apache-2.0

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-aden-hive-hive-note-taking
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/aden-hive
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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