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 <h1>Hivecode</h1>
-**Oversight and control for your AI coding agents.**
+**A live shared workspace for people and their AI agents.**
-Run AI agents on your codebase and actually stay in control: **watch** every edit
-live, **fence** each agent to the folders it's allowed in, **approve** the risky
-moves, and **undo** any agent instantly. No git push/pull. Open source.
-[**Install for VS Code**](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=hivecode.hivecode)
-· [**Website**](https://hivecode.vercel.app)
-· [Latest .vsix](https://github.com/Ganesh-Kute/HiveCode/releases)
+A few people, each with their own AI agent — Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Antigravity, or
+your own bot — work on one project at the same time. Every edit reaches everyone in about a
+second. Agents lock a file before they change it, so they never overwrite each other. They
+talk to each other by name, and they wait for work instead of wandering off. You watch all of
+it live in your browser, approve what matters, pause any agent, and undo anything.
 ---
-## Why
-You can't trust an AI agent blindly. The faster it edits, the more you have to
-check — and the moment you run more than one, it gets worse: they touch files they
-shouldn't, overwrite each other, and you lose track of who changed what. Today's
-answer is to isolate each agent in a git worktree and pray at merge time — which
-doesn't help you *trust* the output, it just defers the mess.
-Hivecode adds the missing layer: **oversight and control.**
+## How it works
-- **See everything** — a live Control Room (browser or phone) shows every agent and every file it touches, in real time.
-- **Fence them in** — folder-scoped access the relay enforces; an out-of-scope agent never even receives the code.
-- **Approve what matters** — gate risky work so nothing lands without your OK.
-- **Undo anything** — instant rollback: restore any file, or revert *everything* one agent did.
+1. Someone creates a **room** and gets a **join link**, like
+   `wss://hivecode-relay.onrender.com|room-a1b2c3d4e5`
+2. Everyone — people and agents — joins with that link.
+3. Each agent works in **its own folder**. Hivecode keeps every folder identical, live.
+4. An agent **claims** a file before editing it and **releases** it after. While someone
+   holds a file, anyone else's write to it is refused — never silently overwritten.
+5. You watch and steer from the **Control Room** in your browser.
-It's **agent-neutral**: Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, or your own bot over MCP. No
-git push/pull — edits sync in about a second.
+Nothing to host. Rooms run on the Hivecode relay, and anyone who has a link can join that
+room — **treat the link like a password** and share it only with your team.
 ---
-## Proof
-The hard part is what happens when two agents edit the same file. Git compares lines, so
-a rename on one side and a new call site on the other merge with no conflict — and ship a
-crash. **ICR**, our merge engine, compares structure and intent instead.
-Measured on [CooperBench](https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13295) (Stanford, 2026), which gives
-two agents independent features on one repo and scores the result by running **both**
-features' own test suites. Of its 652 gold pairs — professional human patches, the
-cleanest possible input — **505 conflict under git**:
-| Merge layer | Of those 505, integrated cleanly | Passes both test suites |
-|---|---|---|
-| `git merge` | 0 (0%) | — |
-| mergiraf 0.18 | 56 (11.1%) | — |
-| **ICR** — safe default | **112 (22.2%)** | **100%** (27/27) |
-| **ICR** — union mode | **206 (40.8%)** | **96.2%** (50/52) |
-Three more independent checks:
-- **279 real conflicts humans already resolved** — compared against what the maintainer
-  actually committed: ICR matched 87, mergiraf 64, zero broken outputs, ICR ahead on all
-  five repositories.
-- **[ConGra](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14121), 6,430 real Python conflicts** verified with
-  CPython's own `ast.parse`: 32.1% resolved vs mergiraf's 31.8%, with **zero crashes and
-  zero parse-guarantee violations**.
-- **Properties, not examples** — symmetry (`M(b,x,y) = M(b,y,x)`), fixed-point, no-loss and
-  the parse guarantee, under seeded fuzz across 20+ languages: 13,000+ assertions, green.
+## Set up an AI agent (about 2 minutes)
-Reproduce any of it: the harnesses are in [`scripts/`](scripts/) and the raw receipts in
-[`data/`](data/).
+You need [Node.js](https://nodejs.org) 18 or newer. Then run this once, in any terminal:
 ```bash
-npx git-clash                                      # see it on three real collision scenarios
-npx git-clash --scan --base=main --head=my-branch  # check one of YOUR merges before you make it
-npm i icr-merge         # the engine: library, CLI, and git merge driver (MIT)
-npx hivecode-mcp        # the live medium, as MCP tools for any agent
+npx -y hivecode-mcp@latest setup
 ```
----
+No link goes in this command. The join link is for your agent, in step 2 below.
-## Running this with a team
+It finds the agent apps on your computer (Claude Code, Antigravity, Cursor, Windsurf, Claude
+Desktop, Gemini CLI), adds Hivecode to each one, and **starts each one to check it works**. An
+app it could not set up is printed as `FAILED` with the reason, never as ready. The first run
+downloads the package, which takes about 10 seconds.
-This section exists because the failures that cost real time are not merge failures.
-They are setup failures that report success. Each item below was measured, not guessed.
+Then:
-### Run your own relay, or know that you are not
+1. **Reload your agent.** Setup prints how for each app. In Antigravity it is Settings → Skills &
+   Customizations → MCP Servers → refresh. For Claude Code, start a new session.
+2. **Paste this to your agent**, with the link you were sent and a name:
-Everything your team writes leaves their machines through one URL: the relay. This build
-ships with a **public** relay as its fallback, and that fallback is reached by omission — a
-missing join link, an unset `HIVE_RELAY`, a VS Code setting nobody changed. Nothing fails
-when it happens. The agent joins, `hive_status` says connected, and the source is on a
-server the team does not run.
+   > Use your hive_join tool to join the Hivecode room `wss://hivecode-relay.onrender.com|room-a1b2c3d4e5`
+   > as **Alice-AI**. Then follow the rules it gives you.
-For anything private, one command:
+The agent's files go in `~/hivecode/<room>/<name>`, a folder of its own. To use a particular
+folder instead, add *"using the folder ./hive-alice"*.
-```bash
-npx hivecode-relay
-```
+**Starting a brand-new room?** Paste: *"Use your hive_join tool to host a new Hivecode room as
+Alice-AI, then give me the join link."* It creates the room and prints the link for you to share.
-It starts the relay with persistence on and prints the settings each teammate needs. Then
-set **both** of these on every machine, humans and agents alike:
+**Another MCP client?** Run the same command. If it doesn't know your app, it prints the exact
+entry to paste into that app's MCP settings, with the right paths for your machine.
-| Setting | Where | What it is |
-|---|---|---|
-| `HIVE_RELAY` / `hivecode.relayUrl` | agent env / VS Code | the relay to use — a **default** |
-| `HIVE_RELAY_PIN` / `hivecode.relayPin` | agent env / VS Code | the only relays allowed — a **rule** |
+The join link goes to your **agent**, not to a terminal: the `|` in it means "pipe" to every
+shell. If you ever pass a link to `setup`, put it in quotes.
-The pin is the half that matters. Without it, one stale link or one forgotten variable puts
-a client on the public relay with every indicator green. With it, that client refuses to
-connect at all (**Q550**), before a socket opens and before a file is published.
+### Check that it worked
-`hive_status` now answers the question directly:
+Ask the agent to run `hive_status`. You want to see:
 ```
-privacy: "PRIVATE — relay on your network"     <- yours
-privacy: "PUBLIC RELAY — not yours"            <- ours
+connected: true
 ```
-Full guide: **[docs/SELF_HOSTING.md](docs/SELF_HOSTING.md)**. The evidence behind it is
-`npm run test:selfhost`, which starts a real relay, syncs a real file between two real
-clients through it, and asserts a pinned client refuses the public one.
+If it says **NOT JOINED** instead, see [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting).
-### One folder per participant. Always.
+---
-Two agents pointed at the same directory coordinate through the filesystem, and every
-`hive_*` call still returns success. It looks like multiplayer and it is not — nothing is
-being tested, and the collision handling you came to evaluate never runs.
+## Join as a person
-```
-alice/   <- her agent syncs here
-bob/     <- his agent syncs here
-```
+You don't need to install anything to watch and steer.
-Same room, different folders. `hive_members` should list every participant; if it doesn't,
-they are not actually in the room together.
-### One WebSocket is opened per file
-This is the most important operational fact about Hivecode and the one that surprises
-people. A relay admits a bounded number of connections (`maxConnsTotal`, default 512;
-per-room default 8 on the free tier). A repository with more files than that cannot open a
-socket for each one, so the client keeps a **bounded working set** — the most recently used
-`HIVE_MAX_OPEN_FILES` (default 128) stay connected and the rest are closed and reopened on
-demand.
-**The consequence, stated plainly: a file outside the working set is not on your disk yet.**
-It exists in the room, and `hive_claim` on the path — or `fetch(path)` if you want to wait for
-the bytes — brings it down. An agent that instead lists its directory, does not see the file,
-and concludes it does not exist will write a new one, and that is how you get two definitions
-of the same thing.
-That sentence was false until 21 Sep 2026, and it is worth saying so rather than quietly
-fixing it. Measured against a client holding 8 of a room's 41 files, on a path that *was* in
-the manifest: `claim()` returned `true`, the file's doc was never opened (`headOf` → `null`,
-0 provenance receipts), no bytes arrived after 9 seconds, and there was no `fetch`, `read` or
-`open` in the API at all. One line in `reconcile` was the cause — the file doc was only opened
-when something already existed on local disk — so the *only* way to obtain a file you could
-not see was to write to the path, which is exactly the blind recreate described below. The
-documented safe route did nothing and the dangerous route worked.
-`fetch(path)` resolves when the bytes are on disk, not when a flag flips, and it tells the two
-lookalike cases apart:
-| what you get back | what it means | what to do |
-|---|---|---|
-| `{ ok: true, bytes: N }` | it was in the room, it is on your disk now | read it |
-| `{ ok: true, alreadyLocal: true }` | you already had it | nothing |
-| `{ ok: false, notInRoom: true }` | **no client has ever published this path** | nothing will ever fetch it; check the room's ignore rules, then have whoever holds the file write it into their synced folder |
-| `{ ok: false, timedOut: true }` | in the room, did not arrive | the file's own socket is likely refused — check `filesHeld` against `roomFiles` |
+1. Open the Control Room: **https://hivecode-relay.onrender.com/control**
+2. Paste the join link, type your name, and press **Enter room**.
-The `notInRoom` case is the one that cost an afternoon. From an empty directory it is
-indistinguishable from a working-set miss, and the remedies are opposite: one is fetchable, the
-other never arrives no matter how long you wait.
+To skip the pasting, put the link after a `#` in the address — the room is filled in and you
+only type your name:
+`https://hivecode-relay.onrender.com/control#wss://hivecode-relay.onrender.com|room-a1b2c3d4e5`
-So the client now tells you, at join:
+From there you can:
-```
-!! THIS FOLDER IS INCOMPLETE ON PURPOSE. The room has 41 files; 8 are on disk
-   here and 33 are NOT. ... A missing file EXISTS — it simply has not been
-   fetched. Do not treat it as absent and do not create it.
-```
+- **See** who is in the room and what each agent is doing, live
+- **Chat** — start a message with `@Alice-AI` to address an agent directly
+- **Approve or deny** work that is waiting on you
+- **Pause or resume** any agent
+- **Restore or revert** — undo one file, or everything one agent did
-And `hive_status` reports `filesHeld` against `roomFiles`, not a self-satisfied total.
-If those two numbers differ, that is expected — not a fault.
+To write code yourself, run your own AI agent (above) and join the same room.
-### Sizing a relay for N participants
+---
-Each participant opens **one connection for the room plus one per open file**, so budget
-`participants × (1 + HIVE_MAX_OPEN_FILES)` against the relay's `maxConnsTotal`, and remember
-the relay is shared with every other room on it. At defaults, five participants want
-5 × (1 + 128) = **645 connections against 512**.
+## The rules agents follow
-That shortfall is `Q430`, the whole-relay cap — so the fix is `HIVE_MAX_CONNS_TOTAL`, or
-fewer open files per client. **`HIVE_SEATS` will not help here**, and an earlier version of
-this section wrongly suggested it would. Verified in `limits.js`: `limitsFor()` returns no
-`maxConnsTotal` at all, and the refusal at `limits.js:166` reads the module-level
-`LIMITS.maxConnsTotal`, so seats never touch the total. Seats raise the **per-room** cap,
-which is a different ceiling that bites in a different place — see the table below.
+Every agent is handed these when it joins. They are worth knowing as a person too:
-Check headroom before you start:
+| Rule | Why |
+|---|---|
+| **One folder per participant.** Never point two agents at the same folder. | Two agents in one folder coordinate through the disk, and every call still reports success — nothing is actually shared. |
+| **Claim before you edit** (`hive_claim`), **release when you're done** (`hive_release`). | While a file is claimed, anyone else's write to it is refused. |
+| **Address people by name** with `@Name` (`hive_say`). | A message that names nobody is treated as background chatter. |
+| **Answer every question aimed at you.** | Silence looks exactly like "still thinking". |
+| **Wait with `hive_wait`** instead of ending your turn. | An agent that stops is unreachable; `hive_wait` wakes it the moment someone needs it. |
-```bash
-curl -s https://your-relay/health
-```
+---
-Two different refusals with two different fixes, which is worth knowing before you debug
-the wrong one:
+## Troubleshooting
-| Code | Meaning | What actually fixes it |
+| You see | What it means | What to do |
 |---|---|---|
-| `Q430` | whole relay at `maxConnsTotal` | raise `HIVE_MAX_CONNS_TOTAL`, or sync fewer files |
-| `Q431` | one room past its per-room cap | set `HIVE_SEATS` — raising the total will **not** help |
-`roomConns` is keyed on the **file**-room (`baseRoom + FILE_SEP + relPath`), so a room's
-per-room count is *how many participants have that one file open*, not how many files the
-folder has. Five participants sharing a file is 5 against a free-tier 8. `Q431` therefore
-needs roughly nine or more participants on the *same* file — which is why a five-person team
-hits `Q430` first, and why reaching for `HIVE_SEATS` is the wrong instinct. Measured by
-@Antigravity while designing the five-participant capacity suite; it corrected this section.
-If files stop syncing, the client fetches `/health` itself and tells you which of these it
-is, or says plainly that capacity is not the cause. It will not guess.
-### When an agent goes quiet
-An agent whose turn has ended is still connected, so "is it online" is the wrong question.
-The room answers the one that is decidable — is it inside a blocking `hive_wait` right now:
-```
-Alice  (ai) — WORKING: last action 2 min ago (hive_claim). Reachable.
-Bob    (ai) — WAITING: blocked in hive_wait, wakes the moment anything arrives. Reachable.
-Carol  (ai) — PARKED: connected, but NOT inside hive_wait and silent for 22 min.
-               It will not wake on its own — anything you send it now will sit
-               unread until a human prompts it.
-Dave   (ai) — GONE: not connected. Last action 41 min ago (hive_say).
-```
-`hive_say` warns you at send time if you address a PARKED or GONE agent, and `hive_owed`
-marks a debt owed by one as `[UNREACHABLE]` rather than pending.
-### Known limits
-- **Marketplace extension**: loses offline edits on rejoin. Not fixed — it needs a real
-  VS Code host to verify, and we will not claim it without one. The `sync.js` engine is
-  covered; the extension is not.
-- **Bounded working set**: described above. A real behaviour change, deliberately taken.
-- **`git`-vs-room drift**: a room checkout and a git branch can diverge.
-  `scripts/check-drift.mjs` reports it.
-- **Relay deploy**: pushing this repo does not redeploy a hosted relay unless auto-deploy
-  is on. Check `/health` uptime against your last deploy.
-- **Dead-heat file creation** (HIV-P17, fixed in `929323b`). If two participants create the
-  *same* path in the same instant, the creation-race path now runs `fusionReason()` — the same
-  check the normal merge path uses. When both inputs parse but the merged output does not (or
-  has structural duplication), the merge is REFUSED: nothing is written, both copies stay
-  intact, and the room is told via `say()`. Disjoint functions that parse cleanly when merged
-  are still unioned as before. Non-code files (no language support) are unaffected.
-  `tests/genesis-collision-test.mjs` pins the fix (6/6).
+| the agent has no `hive_join` tool | Hivecode isn't loaded in that app yet | run `npx -y hivecode-mcp@latest setup` again, check it printed `READY` for your app, then reload the agent |
+| `setup` printed `FAILED` for an app | that app's config could not be written, or what was written does not start | the reason is on the same line, and the entry to add by hand is printed below it |
+| `npx` stops with `ENOENT` and `AppData\Roaming\npm` (Windows) | that folder is missing, which happens on some fresh Node installs, and npm gives up before Hivecode starts | create it with `mkdir "$env:APPDATA\npm"` in PowerShell (`mkdir "%APPDATA%\npm"` in cmd), then run setup again |
+| `'room-…' is not recognized` or `command not found: room-…` | a join link was pasted into a terminal without quotes | give the link to your agent instead; if you pass it to `setup`, quote it |
+| `NOT JOINED` and the address `livecode-xoss.onrender.com` | an old Hivecode version, still cached by `npx` | put `hivecode-mcp@latest` in your agent's config and restart it |
+| `Q430` | the relay is out of sockets | try again shortly; clients on the older one-socket-per-file transport (the VS Code extension, the browser panel) can lower `HIVE_MAX_OPEN_FILES` |
+| `Q438` | the relay holds as many open files as it is sized for | try again shortly, or ask whoever runs the relay to raise `HIVE_MAX_CHANNELS_TOTAL` |
+| `Q431` | this room is full | fewer participants in one room, or ask whoever runs the relay to raise `HIVE_SEATS` |
+| an agent says a file doesn't exist | very large rooms (over 4,096 files, or 128 on the older transport) keep only recently used files on disk | `hive_claim` the file, which downloads it. Do not create it again. |
+| `hive_members` doesn't list someone | they are not in the room | check they used the same link, in their own folder |
+**Secured room?** Give the agent its token: pass `token` to `hive_join`, or set `HIVE_TOKEN`.
 ---
 ## Documentation
-- **[🔌 Connecting & Hosting Rooms](docs/CONNECTING_ROOMS.md)** — how humans join rooms, how to host your own relay, and the self-certifying security model.
-- **[🤖 AI Agent Manual](docs/AI_AGENT_MANUAL.md)** — written for agents: download the MCP server, join a room, behave in the hive.
-- **[🏛️ Hivecode Explained, end to end](docs/HIVECODE_EXPLAINED.md)** — the full course: CRDT internals, the ICR pipeline, provenance, the benchmarks.
-- **[🧠 ICR (Intent-aware Code Replication)](docs/ICR_EXPLAINED.md)** — how the AST-aware merge guarantees no lines are lost in a multi-agent collision.
-- **[🔐 DCO (Deterministic Context Override)](docs/DCO_EXPLAINED.md)** — tools locked by CRDT state, structurally preventing drift.
-- **[🔗 The Substrate](docs/SUBSTRATE.md)** — a governed *medium*: every change a signed `(intent, patch, provenance)` triple, enforced by the relay, with no controller.
-- **[🏗️ Architecture](docs/ARCHITECTURE.md)** · **[🚀 Self-hosting](docs/SELF_HOSTING.md)** · **[⚙️ Setup](docs/SETUP.md)**
-### `learnings/` — read this one if you read nothing else
-Eight defect classes, every one found on this repo, every one having already recurred at
-least once. They are written as classes rather than bug reports, and
-[`tests/learnings-test.mjs`](tests/learnings-test.mjs) fails if a document cites a file that
-has moved — a stale learning is worse than none, because it is read with the authority of
-something that was once checked.
-The recurring shape is **false success**: nothing crashes, every signal is green, the result
-is wrong. [`learnings/false-success.md`](learnings/false-success.md) is the index into it.
+- **[AI Agent Manual](docs/AI_AGENT_MANUAL.md)** — written for agents: joining, claiming, working in the room.
+- **[Operating Hivecode with a team](docs/OPERATIONS.md)** — what surprises a real team, and how to check each thing.
+- **[Hivecode explained, end to end](docs/HIVECODE_EXPLAINED.md)** — how it works underneath.
+- **[Architecture](docs/ARCHITECTURE.md)** · **[Run your own relay](docs/SELF_HOSTING.md)** · **[MCP server](docs/MCP.md)**
 ---
@@ -281,63 +143,17 @@ is wrong. [`learnings/false-success.md`](learnings/false-success.md) is the inde
 ```bash
 npm install
 npm test                  # unit + property suites; pretest runs the packaging and deploy guards
-npm run test:hardening    # every live suite below, in one command, against real relays
+npm run test:hardening    # the live suites, against real relays and real clients
 ```
-`test:hardening` is the one to run if you are evaluating this. It spawns real relays, drives
-real clients, and every assertion in it reads a channel the product actually writes — bytes on
-disk and the room's own chat — rather than a status flag. It takes a few minutes because the
-failures it looks for only appear at real timings.
-`pretest` is not optional and is worth understanding: it runs
-[`scripts/check-files.mjs`](scripts/check-files.mjs), which refuses the package if any
-relative import is missing from `package.json` `files[]`. That guard has caught a published
-tarball that would have thrown `ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND` on its first call.
-### Never pack or publish from a synced room folder
+`test:hardening` is the one to run if you are evaluating this. It spawns real relays and drives
+real clients, and it asserts on what the product actually writes — bytes on disk and the room's
+own chat — rather than on a status flag. What each live suite covers, and why you should never
+pack a release from a synced room folder, is in [docs/OPERATIONS.md](docs/OPERATIONS.md).
-This one is specific to Hivecode and it bites its own maintainers. A room folder holds a
-**bounded working set**, so a file listed in `files[]` may simply not be on disk there.
-Measured 21 Sep 2026: of 35 `files[]` entries, `night/room` had 25 missing and
-`night/deepmind` 26, while the repo itself had none.
-`npm publish` is safe — `prepublishOnly` runs the guard, which fails with
-`files[] lists "hive-mailbox.js" but it does not exist on disk`, one line per entry.
-**`npm pack` is not.** On npm 9.6.1 a real `npm pack` runs *no* lifecycle script — not
-`prepack`, not `prepare` — so it cannot be guarded that way. It omits a `files[]` entry it
-cannot find and says nothing at all: no warning, no non-zero exit, just a smaller tarball
-that installs cleanly and throws on the user's first import. Verified with a two-file probe
-where one listed file did not exist.
-So: pack from the repository, never from a participant folder, and check the tarball
-against `files[]` rather than trusting the count.
-Live suites spawn a real relay on a pid-derived port, so they can run concurrently:
-```bash
-node tests/agent-liveness-test.mjs        # WORKING / WAITING / PARKED / GONE, real dispatch
-node tests/relay-diagnosis-test.mjs       # a real relay made genuinely full, and the advice it gets
-node tests/unreachable-recipient-test.mjs # send-time warnings for unreachable recipients
-node tests/open-file-cap-test.mjs         # the bounded working set, and the trade it makes
-node tests/ceiling-no-data-loss-test.mjs  # a full relay must not cost you your files
-node tests/first-contact-refusal-test.mjs # clone-then-join must not clobber local work
-node tests/genesis-claim-test.mjs         # a claim whose bytes could never leave is refused
-node tests/blind-recreate-test.mjs        # writing a file you cannot see, that the room already has
-node tests/genesis-collision-test.mjs     # HIV-P17: two whole-module rewrites in a creation race are refused
-node tests/join-honesty-test.mjs          # what a join says when the relay refused it
-node tests/mention-boundary-test.mjs      # who owes an answer, and who cannot be asked
-node tests/coordination-test.mjs          # claims, leases, flow-around under contention
-npm run test:ceiling · test:gate · test:learnings · test:features · test:coordination
-```
-Everything under [`tests/`](tests/) is runnable directly with `node`. Suites assert on
-observable behaviour — bytes on disk, tool output, relay refusals — rather than on source
-text, for the reason set out in
-[`learnings/testing-the-consumer-instead-of-the-derivation.md`](learnings/testing-the-consumer-instead-of-the-derivation.md).
-The extension source is in [`extension/`](extension/).
+[`learnings/`](learnings/) holds the defect classes found in this repo, each one written as a
+class rather than a bug report; [`learnings/false-success.md`](learnings/false-success.md) is
+the way in.
 ---
@@ -346,8 +162,6 @@ The extension source is in [`extension/`](extension/).
 - **Issues** — https://github.com/Ganesh-Kute/HiveCode/issues
 - **Email** — support@getgrm.tech
----
 ## License
 MIT.

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@@ -23,19 +23,27 @@ Add Hivecode to your MCP client config. The command runs this repo's server.
 `HIVE_RELAY` is optional (defaults to the hosted relay).
-### Lower-friction join (no file copy)
+### Setting it up: one command
-The package declares a `bin` (`hivecode-mcp` → `hive-mcp.js`), so once it's
-published to npm the other agent needs no local copy/clone — just:
-```json
-{ "mcpServers": { "hivecode": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "hivecode-mcp"] } } }
+```bash
+npx -y hivecode-mcp@latest setup
 ```
-`npx` fetches and runs it. (End state, even simpler: a **remote** MCP server
-hosted on the relay → config is just a `url`, zero install. Tradeoff: a remote
-server can't touch the agent's local disk, so file work goes through tools on
-the shared doc; humans keep the extension for local files.)
+This writes the hivecode entry into every agent app it finds (Claude Code, Antigravity, Cursor,
+Windsurf, Claude Desktop, Gemini CLI), then launches each entry the way that app will and checks it
+answers an MCP handshake. It installs a runtime copy under `~/.hivecode/runtime/<version>`, so the
+agent app starts Hivecode with no download and no network.
+Do not put `{"command": "npx", ...}` in an MCP config by hand. Agent apps start servers without a
+shell, and on Windows `npx` is `npx.cmd`, so that entry fails with `spawn npx ENOENT`. Its first
+start also downloads the package, which can outlast an app's start-up limit (Claude Code allows
+30 seconds). If `setup` does not know your app, it prints the exact entry to use instead.
+Because agent apps now start that installed copy, nothing updates it on its own. The server asks
+npm once per start (in the background, never blocking) and, when a newer build is out, says so in
+`hive_join` and `hive_status`, with the command to run: `npx -y hivecode-mcp@latest setup`. Mixed
+versions in one room can lose data, so do not ignore it. `HIVE_PRIVATE=1` or
+`HIVE_NO_UPDATE_CHECK=1` turns the check off.
 ## Tools the agent gets

package/docs/SELF_HOSTING.md CHANGED Viewed

@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ Cursor, Windsurf, or your own bot):
   "mcpServers": {
     "hivecode": {
       "command": "npx",
-      "args": ["-y", "hivecode-mcp"],
+      "args": ["-y", "hivecode-mcp@latest"],
       "env": {
         "HIVE_RELAY": "wss://your-relay.example.com",
         "HIVE_RELAY_PIN": "wss://your-relay.example.com"
@@ -201,8 +201,9 @@ relay. It is the evidence behind every claim on this page.
 |---|---|
 | `HIVE_AUTH_MODE=required` + `HIVE_JWT_SECRET=<secret>` | Every connection must present a valid token. This is your invite-only control. `npx hivecode-relay --secret <secret>` sets both. Mint tokens with `npx hivecode-token --room <room> --name <who> --role writer --ttl 7d` on the relay host, which is the only machine that holds the secret. See [RBAC.md](RBAC.md). |
 | `HIVE_PERSIST_DIR=/var/data/hive` | **Important.** Without it a room lives only in connected clients' memory and is **lost the moment everyone disconnects** — the day works perfectly and the folder is empty in the morning. `npx hivecode-relay` turns this on by default; `node server.js` does not. |
-| `HIVE_SEATS=<n>` | Connection budget for the whole relay. The default free-tier ceiling is 8 per room, which is **not** 8 people — see below. |
+| `HIVE_SEATS=<n>` | Per-room connection budget (8 per seat). It does **not** raise the whole-relay total — that is `HIVE_MAX_CONNS_TOTAL`. The free-tier ceiling is 8 per room, which is **not** 8 people — see below. |
 | `HIVE_AUDIT_FILE=./audit.log` | One line per admit and reject. This is your evidence of who connected and when. |
+| `HIVE_RELAY_MUX=off` | Turns off one-socket-per-participant mode. It is on by default; this is the kill switch, and clients already connected fall back to one socket per file by themselves. |
 | `RENDER_EXTERNAL_URL` (auto on Render) | Keeps a free-tier host warm so the first join is not a 30-second cold start. |
 > ⚠️ **An open relay on a public IP is a public relay.** Without `HIVE_AUTH_MODE=required`,
@@ -213,17 +214,19 @@ relay. It is the evidence behind every claim on this page.
 ## How much can one relay handle?
-**Count connections, not people.** Each participant holds one base-room socket **plus one
-per open file**, so a five-person team is not five connections — it is up to
-`participants × (1 + HIVE_MAX_OPEN_FILES)`. The client caps its own working set at
-`HIVE_MAX_OPEN_FILES` (default 128) for exactly this reason.
+**Count sockets and open files, not people.** A current client holds **two sockets** — one for
+the room, one carrying all of its files — and each open file is a channel on the second.
+Clients on the older transport (the VS Code extension, the browser panel, `HIVE_MUX=0`, or any
+client against a relay that predates this) still hold one base-room socket **plus one per open
+file**, up to `1 + HIVE_MAX_OPEN_FILES` (default 128) each.
 Two different ceilings refuse you, with two different remedies:
 | You see | Meaning | Fix |
 |---|---|---|
-| **Q430** (503) | the whole relay is at `maxConnsTotal` (512) | `HIVE_MAX_CONNS_TOTAL` — **`HIVE_SEATS` does not help here** |
+| **Q430** (503) | the whole relay is at `maxConnsTotal` (default 2048, ~56 KB of memory each) | `HIVE_MAX_CONNS_TOTAL` — **`HIVE_SEATS` does not help here** |
 | **Q431** (429) | one room is at its per-room cap | `HIVE_SEATS` |
+| **Q438** (503) | open files across all participants are at `HIVE_MAX_CHANNELS_TOTAL` (default 8,192; ~25.8 KB each unshared, ~2.4 KB per extra participant) | `HIVE_MAX_CHANNELS_TOTAL`, with the memory to match |
 - **A focused team (~10 humans and their agents in one room): comfortably**, on a small
   always-on instance (≈1 vCPU / 1–2 GB). Free tiers are fine for a trial.