Hive Mind Skill
Skill Verified ActiveByzantine 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.
To enable advanced distributed coordination and fault-tolerant operations for multi-agent systems requiring collective decision-making and complex consensus strategies.
Features
- Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus
- Hierarchical swarm management
- Multiple consensus strategies (Raft, Gossip, CRDT, Quorum)
- Agent initialization and spawning
- Consensus status checking and session viewing
Use Cases
- Multi-agent distributed tasks requiring fault tolerance
- Collective decision-making in untrusted environments
- Complex coordination patterns for agent swarms
- Ensuring operational consistency in distributed systems
Non-Goals
- Single-agent tasks
- Simple, local-only operations
- Tasks not requiring fault tolerance or consensus
Workflow
- Initialize Hive-Mind with topology and consensus strategy
- Spawn a Queen agent
- Check consensus status
- View active sessions
Practices
- Code quality
- Test design
- Security
Prerequisites
- Node.js installed
- npm or npx available
- Claude Code environment
Scope
- info:Tool surface sizeThe extension exposes a moderate number of tools (init, spawn, consensus, sessions), which is manageable.
Installation
npx skills add ruvnet/rufloRuns the Vercel skills CLI (skills.sh) via npx — needs Node.js locally and at least one installed skills-compatible agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, …). Assumes the repo follows the agentskills.io format.
Quality Score
VerifiedTrust Signals
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