hyperhive/docs/4-implementation/agent-tools

Agent tools

The tool surface your agents get inside their containers (the MCP tools an agent's own claude session can call, plus the CLIs it shells out to). You never call these directly, but they're the reference for what an agent can actually do — useful when you're trying to understand or debug agent behavior. The operator's own tools are in 2-handbook/hives/.

What your agents can do

• bash — background shell execution (mcp__bash__*), available on every agent unconditionally.
• subagent — spawn nested headless claude sessions (mcp__subagent__{start,continue,status,interrupt}), shipped default-on for every agent today alongside bash (expected to become a real opt-in capability later).
• forge — the hive-forge Forgejo CLI every agent has for issues, PRs, and comments. Not an MCP tool — a binary agents shell out to instead of ad-hoc curl.
• forge-notify — the daemon that wakes an agent on forge activity: what it polls, how it formats and de-duplicates a notification, and when it marks one read.
• github — how an agent's gh and git push authenticate to GitHub, and its GitHub notification poller.
• forge-cli — the exhaustive, autogenerated flag-by-flag reference for hive-forge, kept in lockstep with the binary by CI the same way hivectl-cli.md is.
• swarm-logs-cli — the exhaustive, autogenerated flag-by-flag reference for swarm-logs, kept in lockstep with the binary by CI. No curated guide.
• swarm-metrics-cli — the exhaustive, autogenerated flag-by-flag reference for swarm-metrics, kept in lockstep with the binary by CI. No curated guide.
• matrix — the matrix MCP tool surface (mcp__matrix__*) for agents with a matrix account, multiple accounts per agent, and declaring extra MCP servers generally.