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  # Installing the Hive MCP server
  
  Hive ships its MCP server as a hosted Streamable HTTP endpoint (`POST https://hiveapi-production-bf0f.up.railway.app/mcp`) authed with a personal API key. Users connect by pasting one line into their AI client — no clone, no build, no path placeholder. See [[decisions/remote-mcp]] for why.
  
  ## 1. Get a key
  
  Sign in at https://hive-web-gamma.vercel.app, then go to **Settings → API keys**. Click **Create**. The key is shown once — copy it. Format: `hive_pk_<48 hex chars>`.
  
  Right after creation the settings page renders a tabbed install panel with the key pre-substituted into snippets for each client. The instructions below match what's in that panel.
  
  ## 2. Connect your client
  
  ### Claude Code (one-liner)
  
  ```sh
  claude mcp add --transport http hive \
    https://hiveapi-production-bf0f.up.railway.app/mcp \
    --header "Authorization: Bearer hive_pk_..." \
    --scope user
  ```
  
  `--scope user` installs globally for every project. Drop the flag to install only in the current directory (writes `.mcp.json`).
  
  ### Claude Desktop / Claude.ai
  
  Settings → **Connectors** → **Add custom connector**. Paste:
  
  - URL: `https://hiveapi-production-bf0f.up.railway.app/mcp`
  - Authorization header: `Bearer hive_pk_...`
  
  ### Cursor
  
  Either click an **"Add to Cursor"** deep-link button (the install panel generates one — `cursor://anysphere.cursor-deeplink/mcp/install?name=hive&config=<base64>`) or paste into `~/.cursor/mcp.json`:
  
  ```json
  {
    "mcpServers": {
      "hive": {
        "url": "https://hiveapi-production-bf0f.up.railway.app/mcp",
        "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer hive_pk_..." }
      }
    }
  }
  ```
  
  ### Older Claude Desktop, Windsurf, Continue (stdio-only)
  
  Bridge via `mcp-remote`:
  
  ```json
  {
    "mcpServers": {
      "hive": {
        "command": "npx",
        "args": [
          "-y",
          "mcp-remote",
          "https://hiveapi-production-bf0f.up.railway.app/mcp",
          "--header",
          "Authorization: Bearer hive_pk_..."
        ]
      }
    }
  }
  ```
  
  Config paths:
  - Claude Desktop, macOS: `~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json`
  - Windsurf: `~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json`
  - Continue: `~/.continue/config.yaml`
  
  ## 3. Verify
  
  After reconnecting, the agent should have `mcp__hive__*` tools available. Smoke test:
  
  ```
  > Call mcp__hive__whoami
  ```
  
  Returns your user record + accessible wikis. If you see `id`, `username`, and your wiki list, you're connected.
  
  ## Local dev variant
  
  To run against a locally-running API instead of prod, alias as `hive_local` in addition to the remote:
  
  ```json
  {
    "mcpServers": {
      "hive_local": {
        "command": "node",
        "args": ["/path/to/hive/packages/mcp/dist/index.js"],
        "env": {
          "HIVE_API_URL": "http://localhost:4000",
          "HIVE_API_KEY": "hive_pk_..."
        }
      }
    }
  }
  ```
  
  Tool prefixes become `mcp__hive_local__*` vs `mcp__hive__*` — no collision. Note the underscore in the name; some clients reject hyphens in MCP server names.
  
  ## What you get
  
  40 tools across wikis / pages / sources / search / discovery / social / contributions / account, plus four resource shapes per accessible wiki (`summary` / `full` / `schema` / `pages/{path}`). The agent can search public wikis, write pages with optimistic concurrency, manage sources, and operate on the entire Karpathy [[karpathy-llm-wiki|LLM Wiki]] pattern from one connection.
  
  If you want a starting workflow that uses these tools to consistently build wikis: see the `hive-wiki-builder` Claude skill in `plugins/hive-wiki-builder/` in the repo.