> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.open-hive.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Overview

> The five ideas you need to understand OpenHive: colonies, queens, sessions, skills, and memory.

OpenHive organizes work the way a company does — specialists who own a function, teams
assembled around a goal, and institutional knowledge that outlives any single task.

| Concept                       | What it is                                                                                                                         |
| ----------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [Queen](/concepts/queens)     | A specialist agent that owns a function — growth, sales, market research, content. Queens are long-lived and accumulate expertise. |
| [Colony](/concepts/colonies)  | A team of agents working toward one goal, led by a queen. This is where work actually happens.                                     |
| [Session](/concepts/sessions) | A single run of work inside a colony. Colonies persist; sessions are the individual passes of execution.                           |
| [Skill](/concepts/skills)     | A reusable capability an agent can invoke — a procedure, tool, or integration.                                                     |
| [Memory](/concepts/memory)    | What agents remember between runs, scoped globally or to a single queen.                                                           |

## The flow

1. You describe a goal on the home screen.
2. OpenHive picks the queen best suited to it and names a colony for the work.
3. The colony starts a session and its agents begin executing.
4. Agents pause for your input at decision points, then continue.
5. What they learn is written to memory, so the next run starts smarter.