hive.quality-monitor
The hive.quality-monitor skill triggers periodic self-evaluation at configurable intervals to detect performance degradation in Claude outputs by checking task alignment, thoroughness, originality, consistency, and completeness. Use this when running extended operations where quality drift might go unnoticed until external evaluation, particularly in iterative workflows where maintaining standards across many steps is critical.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aden-hive/hive /tmp/hive.quality-monitor && cp -r /tmp/hive.quality-monitor/core/framework/skills/_default_skills/quality-monitor ~/.claude/skills/hive.quality-monitorSKILL.md
## Operational Protocol: Quality Self-Assessment
Every {{assessment_interval}} iterations, self-assess:
1. On-task? Still working toward the stated objective?
2. Thorough? Cutting corners compared to earlier?
3. Non-repetitive? Producing new value or rehashing?
4. Consistent? Latest output contradict earlier decisions?
5. Complete? Tracking all items, or silently dropped some?
If degrading: write assessment to `_quality_log`, re-read `_working_notes`,
change approach explicitly. If acceptable: brief note in `_quality_log`.SOP for debugging browser automation failures on complex websites. Use when browser tools fail on specific sites like LinkedIn, Twitter/X, SPAs, or sites with Shadow DOM.
Required before any hive-browser CLI command. The browser is driven from the terminal by running `hive-browser <command> ... --json` via terminal_exec — not via MCP tools. Teaches the browser lifecycle rules (the bridge attaches to the USER'S running Chrome — never kill or launch browser processes; timeouts are transport issues, not crashes), the screenshot + coordinate workflow (hive-browser interact with a fractional coordinate) that reaches shadow-DOM inputs selectors can't see, the viewport-fraction coordinate rule (not pixels), rich-text editor quirks ("send button stays disabled" failures), and CSP gotchas. Covers Chrome via CDP through the GCU Beeline extension.
Required reading whenever any chart_* tool is available. Teaches the one-tool embedding contract (call chart_render → live chart appears in chat AND a downloadable PNG lands in the queen session dir), the ECharts (data viz) vs Mermaid (structural diagrams) decision, the BI/financial-grade aesthetic baseline (no chartjunk, restrained palette, proper typography, single message per chart), and the canonical spec patterns for the 12 most-common chart types. Skipping this leads to 1990s-Excel charts, missing downloads, and the agent writing markdown image links by hand instead of letting chart_render drive the UI.
Claim tasks, record step progress, and verify SOP gates in the colony SQLite queue. Applies when your spawn message includes a db_path field.
Proactively extract critical values from tool results into working notes before automatic context pruning destroys them.
Follow a structured recovery decision tree when tool calls fail instead of blindly retrying or giving up.
Required before calling image_generate. Create and edit images from a prompt — generate an image, make a picture / logo / illustration / icon / banner / poster / thumbnail / hero image / mockup / product shot / social graphic, or edit / restyle / combine existing images from reference images. Uses OpenAI gpt-image-2 through the Hive image service, billed to the user's Hive credits like an LLM call (no API key needed). Teaches the exact call shape, the quality/cost tradeoff (quality="low" is the default and cheapest), reference-image editing, how to show the result to the user with attach_file, and the failure modes (out of credits, model unavailable, moderation).
Read before automating LinkedIn with browser_* tools. LinkedIn combines shadow DOM (#interop-outlet), strict Trusted Types CSP that silently drops innerHTML, Lexical composer, native beforeunload dialogs that hang the bridge, and aggressive spam filters — each has bitten us at least once. Verified flows for profile messaging, connection-request acceptance, feed composition, and search. Requires hive.browser-automation. Verified against logged-in production 2026-04-11.