Contributor to Hive maintainer
First merged Hive PR: #1492, merged June 12, 2026. Added to OWNERS as an approver and reviewer on August 28, 2026.
Contributor Relay in practice
Contributor Stories
Hive turns first contribution into a minutes-long path: sign in, pick a task, let the relay and your agent scaffold the work, then learn the codebase by reviewing and merging real pull requests.
How it works in 5 minutes
From sign-in to reviewed code
The relay is documented as a contributor-owned process that connects over WebSocket, receives one task at a time, drives the selected local CLI, and reports completion or PR metadata back to the hive.
- Sign in at a hive contributor portalEach hive serves
/contributewith live queue stats and setup commands. - Pick eligible work from the queueThe hub applies repository, label, assignment, dependency, cooldown, and trust-tier gates before work is offered.
- Run the relay with your CLI
just contribute-hivestarts the relay and agent locally or in the reference container path. - Review, submit, and merge through project rulesThe hub injects short-lived GitHub credentials, receives PR metadata, and keeps the normal maintainer review path.
Evidenced progressions
Stories we can link today
These cards only include public GitHub evidence: first merged pull request dates and the OWNERS commit that added maintainers.
Contributor to Hive maintainer
First merged Hive PR: #3871, merged August 20, 2026. Added to OWNERS as an approver and reviewer on August 28, 2026.
By the numbers
Public data, as of October 1, 2026
Numbers below come from GitHub pull requests and public Hive hub endpoints; the live leaderboard is the source of truth for current contributor activity.
- human PR authors across 7 Hive Commons repos since 2026-07-01
- 22
- human PR authors in hivecommons/hive since 2026-07-01
- 20
- merged PRs in those 7 repos since 2026-07-01, including agent-authored work
- 5,619
- public hives online from the hub stats endpoint
- 26
- agents reported by the public hub stats endpoint
- 99
- PRs reported by the public hub stats endpoint
- 466
Repo human contributor counts since 2026-07-01: hive 20, docs 1, pluk 3, hotshot 1, promptargs 1, rationguard 2, dibs 1. Open the live contributor portal or view the public leaderboard JSON.
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