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HiveMinds 1.8
What's new
- HiveMinds Host: run projects and agents on another machine on your local network, such as a Linux PC. Install
hiveminds-hostthere and its projects and agents appear in HiveMinds next to This Mac. - Pairing: hosts on your network show in the sidebar. Press Pair…, compare the fingerprint, type the 6-digit code the host shows, and say yes on the host. You can also pair by address in Settings > Hosts.
- Agents on a host work like local ones: start them, watch their terminal, type, answer permission prompts and plans, see Changes and History, with the host's name on each tile and card. Quitting HiveMinds leaves them running.
- Sharing an agent: several devices can watch the same agent. One types at a time, and others see who it is and can press Take Over.
- Stays on your network: hosts accept private addresses only, connections are encrypted both ways, and every device needs the code and your approval. Agents on a host can run anything its user can, so pair only devices you trust.
- For now, meetings, Split up, shell and browser tabs, attachments and pull requests are for projects on This Mac.
- HiveMinds is now open source under the MIT licence.
Install
The app: download HiveMinds-1.8.0.dmg, open it and drag HiveMinds into Applications. The app is not notarised, so the first time, right-click it and choose Open.
The host (optional, Linux x86_64): download hiveminds-host-0.5.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz and follow the README.txt inside. It needs glibc 2.38 or newer, git, Claude Code logged in on that machine, and Avahi so your Mac can find it (without Avahi, pair by address). If a firewall is on, allow 7420/tcp and 5353/udp.
HiveMinds 1.7
What's new
- Startup region check: a new optional setting in Settings > Location, off by default. On Wi-Fi, each time HiveMinds starts it looks up the country of your internet address. If your default provider isn't offered there, you get an error and the only choice is to quit. It never uses your Mac's precise location, it asks Cloudflare for the country and saves nothing, and a VPN changes the result. If the country can't be found, the app opens with a warning.
Install
Download HiveMinds-1.7.0.dmg, open it and drag HiveMinds into Applications. The app is not notarised, so the first time, right-click it and choose Open.
HiveMinds 1.6
What's new
- Split up: the New Agent sheet has a
One agent | Split upswitch. Paste a list of things to do (like bugs from a play test) and HiveMinds splits it into as many agents as it needs. Related problems share an agent, and each one gets a model that fits the job. Each agent gets its own branch, so they don't clash. Set the most agents per split in Settings > Agents. - Select and delete several agents: press the trash button on the Canvas or the Overview, or ⌘-click an agent, then tick agents and delete them in one go. Select Finished picks every agent that's done. A project's … menu also has Delete Finished Agents….
- Answer agents from the Overview: allow permission prompts, answer questions and approve plans right on an agent's Overview card. Plans now get Approve and Keep Planning buttons everywhere, including the Canvas.
- Fix: dictation no longer stops working after you switch microphones (for example to AirPods).
- Fix: a new agent's tab no longer shows up blank until you visit the Canvas.
Install
Download HiveMinds-1.6.0.dmg, open it and drag HiveMinds into Applications. The app is not notarised, so the first time, right-click it and choose Open.
HiveMinds 1.5
What's new
- Plan mode for new agents: New Agent > Options has a Plan mode switch (Claude Code agents). The agent writes a plan and waits for you to approve it. Set the default in Settings > Agents.
- Hands-free dictation: while holding Right Option, press Space to keep listening after you let go. Tap Right Option to finish, or Esc to cancel.
- Get back dictation that missed: if your words didn't land anywhere, click where they go and press ⌥⌘V. Edit > Copy Last Dictation and the ⌘P palette can copy recent ones. Nothing goes on the clipboard unless you pick it.
- Livelier Overview cards: each agent card shows what it's doing, its model, pull request and issue, and a 7-day token sparkline.
Install
Download HiveMinds-1.5.0.dmg, open it and drag HiveMinds into Applications. The app is not notarised, so the first time, right-click it and choose Open.
HiveMinds 1.4
What's new
- Reorder projects: drag a project's name in the sidebar above or below another one. The order is saved.
- Hide projects you're done with: a project's … menu has Hide Project. It leaves the sidebar, Overview and pickers, and its agents are stopped but keep their chats. Bring it back from Settings > Projects > Hidden projects.
- Overview stats stay put: removing a project or deleting an agent no longer drops its tokens and cost from Token mix and By project. A project you remove and add again gets its numbers back.
Install
Download HiveMinds-1.4.0.dmg, open it and drag HiveMinds into Applications. The app is not notarised, so the first time, right-click it and choose Open.
HiveMinds 1.3
What's new
- Agent history: see every agent you have and every one you deleted in the last week (⌘Y or History in the sidebar), with project, branch, model and cost. How many to keep and for how long is in Settings > Agents.
- Voice dictation (optional, off by default): turn it on in Settings > Voice, hold Right Option and talk, and the words are typed into the terminal or text field you're in. Uses Apple's on-device engine, or Whisper if you download a model. Esc cancels.
- Issues to agents: GitHub > Issues lists your projects' open issues. Start an agent on one in a click, or add a note first; its pull request says "Fixes #n". You can also close, comment on, rename or delete an issue.
- Stay awake: an optional setting that keeps the Mac and display awake while agents are working.
- Change counts per agent: a ± button on every agent tab and tile shows lines added and removed, counted for that agent's own files.
- Canvas tiles: clearer feedback while moving and sizing, no more gaps, bigger resize edges (top edge included), tiles no longer spill out when small, and drag a tile to the side to carry it to another page or a new one.
- Scrolling works in agent terminals again.
Install
Download HiveMinds-1.3.0.dmg, open it and drag HiveMinds into Applications. The app is not notarised, so the first time, right-click it and choose Open.
HiveMinds 1.2
What's new
- Shell tabs: open a plain terminal in the project folder next to your agents and browser tabs (⇧⌘T).
- Size Canvas tiles: drag any edge or corner to make a tile bigger. It snaps to a grid and the others fill the space left.
- Answer agents from the Canvas: allow or deny a permission prompt, or answer a question, right on the tile.
- Review and jump around: right-click an agent to see what it changed, open its folder in your editor, copy its branch, or restart it with a different access level or model. Press ⌘P to jump to any project, agent, tab or meeting.
- Cost warning when an agent passes a cost you set.
- Sounds: a different sound for a permission, a question, an error and done (Settings > Sounds).
- Meetings: seats follow your access level, can use a second model, end early once settled, use fewer tokens, and save their outcome in the project's
meetings/folder.
Install
Download HiveMinds-1.2.0.dmg, open it and drag HiveMinds into Applications. The app is not notarised, so the first time, right-click it and choose Open.
HiveMinds 1.1
What's new
- Sign in with an API key. Settings > Accounts lets Claude Code and Codex each use an API key instead of your plan. Agents are then billed per token to your Anthropic or OpenAI API account.
- Keys are kept in your Mac's Keychain, never in a file, and are handed only to the agents HiveMinds starts.
- Your own
claudeandcodexlogins are left alone. - Applies when an agent starts or restarts.
- The token badge's tooltip now says its cost estimate is roughly what API-key work is billed.
Install
Download HiveMinds-1.1.0.dmg, open it and drag HiveMinds into Applications. (HiveMinds-1.1.0-app.zip has the same app without the disk image.)
The app isn't notarised, so macOS may block it the first time. Right-click it in Applications and choose Open, or run:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/HiveMinds.appRequires macOS 26 or later, Claude Code (Codex optional) and the GitHub CLI.
HiveMinds 0.1.0
The first complete version of HiveMinds: a calm, native macOS app for running Claude Code and Codex agents across your projects.
What's in it
- Projects and agents, each with its own model, effort level and access level
- Canvas: every agent terminal and browser tab in a project, side by side
- Agents on their own branches, with pull requests drafted and opened through
gh - Meetings where several agents debate or review a topic and write up the outcome
- GitHub sign-in and cloning through the GitHub CLI
- Plan usage limits, per-tab token and cost estimates, and Overview charts
Install
Download HiveMinds-0.1.0.dmg, open it and drag HiveMinds into Applications. (HiveMinds-0.1.0-app.zip has the same app without the disk image.)
The app isn't notarised, so macOS may block it the first time. Right-click it in Applications and choose Open, or run:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/HiveMinds.appRequires macOS 26 or later, Claude Code (Codex optional) and the GitHub CLI.