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A project groups related chats and gives Hive instructions and files that apply to all of them. Use one for anything you come back to: a client engagement, the quarterly board pack, a hiring round, month-end close. Instead of repeating “use our house style and these three files” in every chat, you set it once on the project.

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Create a project

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Open Projects

In the sidebar’s chat history, choose New project (or open Projects).
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Name it

Give it a Project name — for example “Q3 board reporting” — and pick a colour.
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Add custom instructions (optional)

Standing guidance Hive follows in every chat in the project: audience, tone, format, what to include or avoid. Up to 4,000 characters.
4

Start chatting

Type in the Start a new chat in … box at the foot of the project page, or choose + on the Chats tab. Every chat there carries the project’s instructions, files and skills.

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Inside a project

A project page has four tabs: Choose Edit instructions to change the project’s Project instructions at any time. Changes apply to the next message in every chat in the project.

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Share a project

Projects are private to their creator by default. To work on one with colleagues, share it with named people in your workspace and choose their access:
  • Editor — can chat in the project and change its instructions, files and skills.
  • Viewer — can read the project. They see “You have view-only access to this project.”
Only people in the same workspace can be added, and workspace admins can read projects but being an admin does not make you a project owner or let you reshare it. Your shared projects are listed under Settings → Account → Shared projects.
Sharing a project shares its chats, instructions and pinned files — not your connected accounts. Each person’s questions use the connections they are allowed to use.

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Limits

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Tips for good project instructions

  • State the audience and the output. “Board members; one-page summaries with a numbers table first.”
  • Name the sources to prefer. “Use the pinned management accounts before live Xero data.”
  • Say what to avoid. “Never include client names in drafts meant for external sharing.”
  • Keep them stable. Put one-off requests in the chat, not in the project instructions.

Ask Hive

Citations, files and actions.

Library

Files and folders for your workspace.

Agent Studio

When a project should become a reusable agent.

Workflows

Automate the repeatable parts.