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Hive Code (Beta)

Hive Code is currently in beta.

Hive Code is CompactHive's in-portal coding agent, available at /portal/code. It lets you build an app by describing what you want in plain language, directly in your browser — no local dev environment required.

Prefer to use your own AI coding tool (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, …) instead of the in-portal agent? See the Connect Your AI Agent page in Guides & Reference — Hive Code and your own agent are two different ways to build on CompactHive, and you can use either or both.

How it works

  1. Bring your own model credentials. Before starting a session, connect a model: either an API key (OpenAI or Anthropic), or a connected ChatGPT subscription. CompactHive doesn't include model access as part of your plan — you're using your own credentials.
  2. Pick or create a repo. You can point Hive Code at an existing repository in your built-in Forgejo instance, or have it create a brand-new one for you.
  3. Describe what you want. The agent writes code against your repo, running server-side in your own tenant namespace.
  4. It ships itself. When the agent finishes a piece of work, it commits and pushes the change back to your repo. From there, the normal CI/CD pipeline takes over exactly as if you'd pushed the code yourself: Woodpecker builds the image with Kaniko, and — if auto-deploy is on — it goes live. The same Pushed → Built → Deployed → Live timeline applies.

There are no extra buttons to click to "ship" what the agent builds — pushing is shipping, same as it is for humans on the platform.

Current limitations

  • Hive Code works against repositories in the built-in Forgejo instance. If your tenant is connected to GitHub (beta) instead, use the standard "Connect GitHub" flow in Settings to build and push manually; direct GitHub-backed Hive Code sessions are on the roadmap but not available yet.
  • As a beta feature, expect the experience to keep evolving — if something feels rough around the edges, that's expected right now, not a sign you're doing it wrong.

Hive Code is included on all tiers; you only need to supply your own model credentials to use it.