Supported agents & inference engines

Hive supports agent CLIs, inference engines, and OpenAI-compatible model gateways by backend ID. These are supported software integrations; inclusion does not imply endorsement or a partnership.

Claude Code

• Owner: Anthropic
• What Hive does: launches Claude Code as an agentic CLI, applies Hive’s prompt, permissions, audit, and queue controls, and records the configured model with the agent.
• Hive config: backend: claude
• Official link: Claude Code

GitHub Copilot CLI

• Owner: GitHub
• What Hive does: launches Copilot CLI for unattended agent work with Hive-managed repository scope, permissions, and audit trails.
• Hive config: backend: copilot
• Official link: GitHub Copilot CLI reference

Goose

• Owner: Block
• What Hive does: launches Goose as an agent CLI and delivers Hive prompts and kicks through the Goose runtime.
• Hive config: backend: goose
• Official link: Goose

OpenAI Codex CLI

• Owner: OpenAI
• What Hive does: launches Codex CLI for agent tasks and passes Hive’s selected model and reasoning-effort settings where supported.
• Hive config: backend: codex
• Official link: OpenAI Codex CLI

Pi

• Owner: Earendil Works
• What Hive does: launches the Pi coding-agent CLI as a long-running interactive backend and sends Hive kicks when the CLI is ready.
• Hive config: backend: pi
• Official link: Pi

IBM Bob

• Owner: IBM
• What Hive does: launches the IBM Bob / bobshell CLI with Hive-managed headless authentication, approval, and workspace trust settings.
• Hive config: backend: bob
• Official link: IBM watsonx Code Assistant

Aider

• Owner: Aider open source project
• What Hive does: launches Aider as an agent CLI and can apply Hive’s per-agent prompts, repository context, and audit controls.
• Hive config: backend: aider
• Official link: Aider

Gemini CLI

• Owner: Google
• What Hive does: launches Gemini CLI for operators whose Google access still supports that CLI and treats it as an agentic backend.
• Hive config: backend: gemini
• Official link: Gemini CLI

Google Antigravity CLI

• Owner: Google
• What Hive does: launches the Antigravity CLI (agy) as Google’s current Hive-supported agent CLI, with Hive managing unattended mode and reasoning effort.
• Hive config: backend: agy
• Official link: Google Antigravity CLI

OpenCode

• Owner: OpenCode project
• What Hive does: launches OpenCode as a supported terminal coding-agent backend and routes Hive prompts to it.
• Hive config: backend: opencode
• Official link: OpenCode docs

Kilo Code

• Owner: Kilo
• What Hive does: launches Kilo Code as a supported agentic CLI backend for Hive-managed work.
• Hive config: backend: kilo
• Official link: Kilo CLI

Muse Code

• Owner: Meta
• What Hive does: launches Muse Code as a supported CLI backend when installed by the operator.
• Hive config: backend: muse
• Official link: Muse Code docs

Oh My Pi

• Owner: can1357
• What Hive does: launches Oh My Pi through the omp backend and passes Hive’s selected model and approval behavior.
• Hive config: backend: omp
• Official link: Oh My Pi

vLLM

• Owner: vLLM project
• What Hive does: routes inference through a vLLM-compatible OpenAI API endpoint while Hive drives agent turns and audit metadata.
• Hive config: backend: vllm
• Official link: vLLM

llm-d

• Owner: llm-d project
• What Hive does: routes inference through an llm-d OpenAI-compatible endpoint for self-hosted model serving.
• Hive config: backend: llm-d
• Official link: llm-d

LiteLLM

• Owner: BerriAI
• What Hive does: routes model calls through LiteLLM as an OpenAI-compatible proxy for centrally managed models and keys.
• Hive config: backend: litellm
• Official link: LiteLLM

IBM watsonx.ai

• Owner: IBM
• What Hive does: routes model calls through watsonx.ai’s OpenAI-compatible gateway and handles the IBM project and token settings required by Hive configuration.
• Hive config: backend: watsonx
• Official link: IBM watsonx.ai

OpenRouter

• Owner: OpenRouter
• What Hive does: uses OpenRouter as a named model gateway for OpenAI-compatible routing when configured by an operator.
• Hive config: backend: openrouter
• Official link: OpenRouter

Anthropic

• Owner: Anthropic
• What Hive does: records and routes Anthropic-backed models through the configured CLI or gateway while preserving Hive audit metadata.
• Hive config: backend: anthropic
• Official link: Anthropic

OpenAI

• Owner: OpenAI
• What Hive does: records and routes OpenAI-backed models through the configured CLI or gateway while preserving Hive audit metadata.
• Hive config: backend: openai
• Official link: OpenAI

DeepSeek

• Owner: DeepSeek
• What Hive does: routes DeepSeek-backed models through a configured OpenAI-compatible gateway such as LiteLLM.
• Hive config: backend: deepseek
• Official link: DeepSeek

Infrastructure thanks

Hive Commons thanks Akamai (Linode) and Oracle Cloud (OKE) for Kubernetes infrastructure donated through the CNCF, Cloudflare for DNS, edge and tunnels, GitHub Copilot for AI inference donated to CNCF projects through the CNCF, and Bluehost for domain hosting.