Mco
Hive orchestrates CLI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI as one coordinated local team.
If you already live in Claude Code and Codex terminals, Hive is the cheapest way to make them argue with each other: $0, local execution, and a git-visible `.hive/tasks.md` graph plus `--resume` so a crashed session isn't a lost afternoon. The write+review pairing alone justifies the install — a second vendor's model catches edge cases your author agent won't flag about itself. Accept the strings: you wire up every CLI, and one developer carries the project at v2.2.1.
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- Developers already running Claude Code, Codex CLI, or Gemini CLI who want them working as a team instead of as separate windows
- Small teams that want genuine cross-vendor code review rather than one model grading its own diff
- Local-first engineers who need code and execution to stay on their own machine with no Hive account or API key
- Developers who want a git-visible task graph and restart-safe queued work
- Beginners who have never installed or authenticated a CLI coding agent
- Buyers who want one bundled model, one subscription, and a hosted dashboard
- Procurement policies that require a permissive OSI license rather than BSL 1.1
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Skip Hive if you've never installed or logged into a CLI coding agent — it won't set those up for you — or if your team needs a permissive OSI license, a hosted dashboard, or a vendor SLA rather than a solo-maintained local tool.
Hive itself is $0, but it doesn't include any models — you'll keep paying Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, or whichever CLI agents you're running, and multi-agent patterns like write+review multiply that consumption.
Hive is $0 — there is no paid tier, no subscription, and no per-seat cost. The real cost of ownership sits in the CLI agent subscriptions you keep paying underneath it (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI). Compared with hosted multi-agent platforms that bundle a model and a dashboard for a monthly fee, Hive is the cheapest option on the page by orders of magnitude — but only if you already run the CLIs, because the tool adds no model access of its own.
In short
Mco — Hive orchestrates CLI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI as one coordinated local team. Best for Developers already running Claude Code, Codex CLI, or Gemini CLI who want them working as a team instead of as separate windows, Small teams that want genuine cross-vendor code review rather than one model grading its own diff, Local-first engineers who need code and execution to stay on their own machine with no Hive account or API key. Free to use.
What's new in Mco
Checked 3 days agoAcross the latest 2 updates: 1 feature update and 1 launch.
Hive v2.2.1
Current release, published 2026-09-08, with roughly 95 weekly npm downloads. Runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows with Node 22 or newer and is maintained by a single developer, @tt-a1i.
Hive v2.0.2: Browser orchestrator for CLI agents with remote access
Added browser-based orchestration of multiple CLI agents plus optional encrypted remote access for mobile pairing, letting a paired phone type into the same local terminals.
What people actually say about Mco — is it worth it?
We ran a structured research pass across product reviews, community discussions, and post-purchase forum threads to surface the patterns vendors won't publish themselves. Below: the recurring strengths, the hidden costs people mention most, and the cohort that consistently regrets adopting this tool.
59 mentions across 3 sources (Hacker News, App Store, Lemmy) · researched Jul 3, 2026.
Average across the 3 sources that answered — each source counts once, not each post.
- +Fully open-source and free to use, no hidden costs.
- +Runs locally — data never leaves your machine.
- +Supports 8+ popular CLI agents in one UI.
- +Built-in role templates and team memory save time.
- +Multi-agent workflows can improve code quality via reviews.
- −No real user feedback to confirm reliability or ease of use.
- −Configuration and debugging multi-agent workflows is complex.
- −Dependence on third-party agents could lead to breakage.
- −Experimental features like workflows are not production-ready.
- −Limited documentation and examples beyond the basic README.
- • No hidden costs — completely free and self-hosted.
Viability Score
How well maintained and how widely used is Mco? Built from what the vendor actually publishes (docs, changelog, tutorials, integrations, pricing), whether the site is live, and how much real users discuss it. How we calculate this
Last calculated: October 2026
How we score →Key Features
- Browser-based orchestration of CLI coding agents in real terminals
- team send dispatches work to a named team member
- team report returns a member's result to the Orchestrator
- Write + review mode pairs two different model families on one diff
- Test + fix automatic red-green loop until the suite goes green
- team spawn auto-recruits temporary coder, tester, and reviewer roles (experimental, on by default)
- Workflows panel for multi-stage fan-out, review, and test runs with logs and stop button (experimental, opt-in)
- Workspace memory carries constraints and earlier decisions into each dispatch
- Task graph stored as git-friendly .hive/tasks.md with [needs: #N] dependency markers
- team next hands out only tasks that aren't blocked by dependencies
- --resume reconnects native CLI sessions or injects an auto-written handoff brief
- Queued tasks persist across restarts
- 400+ bilingual (Chinese/English) role templates importable offline
- Optional end-to-end encrypted remote access from a phone browser with a writable terminal
- Installable as a PWA desktop app and open a workspace in VS Code or terminal
About Mco
Hive is a free, open-source (BSL 1.1) browser orchestrator that turns the CLI coding agents already installed on your machine into a coordinated team. Install it globally with `npm i -g @tt-a1i/hive`, run `hive`, open the local address it prints (usually http://127.0.0.1:3000), and hand the Orchestrator a goal. It dispatches work to real Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Antigravity, Cursor CLI, Grok Build, Hermes, and Qwen Code terminals through `team send`, and members hand results back with `team report`. Nine presets ship ready; anything you can run as a CLI agent, Hive can run using logins you already have. No Hive account, no API key of its own. The coordination patterns are the product. Write + review pairs two different model families on the same diff so each critiques the other — Claude writes, Codex reviews. The test + fix loop keeps a red-green cycle spinning: Gemini writes and runs the suite, Claude fixes the failures, repeat until green. `team spawn` (experimental, on by default) lets the Orchestrator hire temporary coder, tester, and reviewer roles and retire them when work returns. Workflows (experimental, opt-in) split a goal into fan-out, review, and test stages with run logs, scheduled tasks, and a stop button. State survives restarts. Workspace memory carries constraints and earlier decisions into each dispatch, the task graph lives as a git-friendly `.hive/tasks.md` with `[needs: #3]` dependency markers, and `team next` hands out only unblocked work; `--resume` reconnects native CLI sessions or injects an auto-written handoff brief. Queued tasks persist. A role template marketplace ships Coder/Reviewer/Tester templates plus 400+ bilingual community roles, importable offline. Optional encrypted remote access pairs your phone over a gateway that only sees ciphertext — the desktop is the trust root, pairing needs someone at the keyboard, devices revoke on demand. The honest cost: you install and authenticate every CLI yourself, Node
Behind the Verdict
Cross-model review is the reason to install this. When Claude writes a diff and Codex reviews it, you get a critic with different training and different blind spots than the author — a genuinely different signal than asking one model to check its own homework. The test + fix loop is the other pattern worth stealing: Gemini runs the suite red, Claude fixes the failures, the cycle repeats until green while you do something else. Pick Hive if you're a developer already paying for one or more CLI coding agents and want them coordinated instead of copy-pasted. It costs nothing, needs no account of its own, and everything executes on your machine. Pass if you've never installed or authenticated a CLI agent. Hive assumes Claude Code, Codex, or Gemini CLI is already working from your shell — there's no bundled model behind it, and the Try Demo wizard only shows a demo hive, it doesn't install agents for you. The closest alternative is a hosted multi-agent platform that bundles the model and the dashboard. Those give you one subscription and someone else's uptime; Hive gives you your own logins, your own hardware, and the ability to swap vendors per role. That trade favors local-first engineers and hurts anyone whose procurement requires a vendor SLA or a permissive OSI license — BSL 1.1 is source-available, not MIT. In practice, the sharp edges are operational. Node 22+ is mandatory, `team spawn` and Workflows are still marked experimental, and the v2.2.1 release carries roughly 95 weekly npm downloads behind a single maintainer. Budget for a little debugging, and treat remote access as opt-in only — it's off by default, pairing requires a person at the desktop, and devices can be revoked, so the local terminal stays the trust root. Where it bites: onboarding a whole team
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Real-world workflow fit
Concrete scenarios for the personas Mco actually fits — and what changes day-one when you adopt it.
You install with `npm i -g @tt-a1i/hive`, run `hive`, open http://127.0.0.1:3000, and add Claude as Coder and Codex as Reviewer. You type a goal into the Orchestrator — 'add dark mode to the settings page' — and it splits the work. Claude writes, Codex reports two edge cases on the diff, Claude revises, and you read the final diff.
Outcome: You get a cross-vendor review cycle without being the copy-paste relay between two terminal windows.
You set up Gemini CLI as Tester and Claude Code as Coder, then dispatch a full test run. Gemini reports three red tests, Hive routes the failures to Claude to fix, and Claude's fix triggers another Gemini run — the red-green loop turns in the hive while you do something else.
Outcome: The suite ends green without you shuttling failing output between two CLI sessions.
You spawn a Researcher role and a Translator role from the marketplace, dispatch 'verify the five sources in this write-up' and then 'translate the conclusions to English.' The task graph in .hive/tasks.md marks the translation as `[needs: #1]` so it only fires after verification returns.
Outcome: You get a cited, verified, translated deliverable with a git-visible record of which agent did which stage.
Use Cases
- Have Claude Code write a feature while Codex CLI reviews the diff for edge cases you'd otherwise miss.
- Let Gemini CLI write the test suite, then have Claude Code fix the failing tests in a red-green loop.
- Break a large project into parallel sub-tasks and distribute them across different CLI agents.
- Assign a researcher role to verify citations and a translator role to produce an English version of the conclusions.
- Run offline agent experiments against the 400+ role templates in the marketplace — no internet required.
- Queue a night's worth of tasks, close the laptop, restart, and let `--resume` pick the work back up.
- Pair your phone over encrypted remote access to type into the same terminal from outside the house.
- Fire a completion webhook into Slack or CI when an agent finishes a job.
Models Under the Hood
as of 2026-10-18
Limitations
- Hive is a local, browser-based orchestration layer that does not supply its own accounts or underlying models: you must already have the CLI agents installed and logged in yourself, as it composes tools already present on your machine.
- It runs entirely locally and is installed via npm, requiring Node.js.
- Team-related capabilities such as auto-recruiting (team spawn) and multi-stage Workflows are labeled experimental.
as of 2026-10-07
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Free
$0
Ideal for
Developers already running Claude Code, Codex CLI, or Gemini CLI who want those agents working as a coordinated team on their own machine.
What this tier adds
Starting tier — everything is here: browser orchestration, write+review, test+fix, team spawn, Workflows, task graph, memory, --resume, 400+ role templates, and optional encrypted remote access, all at $0.
Where the pricing makes sense
The company stage and team size where Mco's pricing actually pencils out — and where peers do it cheaper.
Hive is $0 — there is no paid tier, no subscription, and no per-seat cost. The real cost of ownership sits in the CLI agent subscriptions you keep paying underneath it (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI). Compared with hosted multi-agent platforms that bundle a model and a dashboard for a monthly fee, Hive is the cheapest option on the page by orders of magnitude — but only if you already run the CLIs, because the tool adds no model access of its own.
Setup time & first value
How long it actually takes to get something useful out of Mco — broken out by persona, not the marketing-page minute.
If you already have Claude Code, Codex CLI, or Gemini CLI installed and authenticated and you're on Node 22+, plan on about 5-10 minutes from `npm i -g @tt-a1i/hive` to your first dispatched task — most of that is reading the brief and adding members. If you've never installed a CLI coding agent, add however long it takes you to install and log into one (usually 10-30 minutes each) before Hive is
Switching to or from Mco
How to bring data in from common predecessors and how to get it back out — written for the switcher, not the buyer.
- →From manual copy-paste between terminal windows: keep your existing CLI logins, npm-install Hive, and move the write/review handoff into `team send` / `team report` dispatches instead of clipboard round-trips.
- →From a hosted multi-agent platform: export any role definitions or prompts you built there as templates in Hive's marketplace so your team keeps the same division of labor.
- →From a single-agent workflow in one CLI: add a second vendor's CLI as a Reviewer member and route diffs to it via write+review mode to get cross-model critique on day one.
- ↗To a hosted multi-agent platform: there is no automated export — your prompts and role templates move by copy, and the .hive/tasks.md task graph stays behind in your repo as a plain markdown file you can keep.
- ↗To plain terminal use: stop launching Hive; each CLI agent keeps working on its own exactly as before, since Hive never modified the CLIs themselves.
Integrations
Resources & Guides
Tutorials & Learning
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