Hive Mind

This is Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus for coordinating multiple Claude instances. You get five consensus strategies (Byzantine, Raft, gossip, CRDT, quorum) and four topologies, from hierarchical queen-worker setups to full mesh networks. The hierarchical mode is explicitly designed to prevent drift during coding tasks, which is the honest reason you'd reach for this instead of just spawning agents manually. Best kept under 8 agents for practical coordination. It's overkill for solo work, but if you're actually running distributed multi-agent operations that need fault tolerance, the Raft consensus with hierarchical-mesh topology is where you'd start.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add ruvnet/ruflo --skill hive-mind --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Hive-Mind Skill

Purpose

Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus and distributed swarm coordination.

When to Trigger

Multi-agent distributed tasks
Fault-tolerant operations needed
Collective decision making
Complex coordination patterns

Topologies

Topology	Description	Use Case
`hierarchical`	Queen controls workers	Default, anti-drift
`mesh`	Fully connected peers	Research, exploration
`hierarchical-mesh`	Hybrid	Recommended for complex
`adaptive`	Dynamic based on load	Auto-scaling

Consensus Strategies

Strategy	Tolerance	Use Case
`byzantine`	f < n/3 faulty	Untrusted environment
`raft`	f < n/2 faulty	Leader-based, consistent
`gossip`	Eventual	Large scale, availability
`crdt`	Conflict-free	Concurrent updates
`quorum`	Configurable	Tunable consistency

Commands

Initialize Hive-Mind

npx claude-flow hive-mind init --topology hierarchical-mesh --consensus raft

Spawn Queen

npx claude-flow hive-mind spawn --role queen --name coordinator

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Details

Repository: github.com/ruvnet/ruflo
Categories: AI & Agent Building, Productivity & Planning
First seen: Jun 3, 2026