MCP Prompts

Hive ships four MCP Prompts — pre-built, parameterised templates that supported clients (Claude Code, Cursor) surface as slash commands. Prompts let you kick off a Hive workflow with one keystroke instead of asking your agent to pick a tool name.

What's the difference between a Tool and a Prompt?

A Tool is something the agent calls — a function with a JSON response. A Prompt is a template the client surfaces to the user; the user picks it, the client sends the rendered template to the agent, and the agent then calls the appropriate tool. Tools do work; Prompts route you to the right tool.

Available prompts

Prompt	Arguments	What it does
/recall-context	topic	Summarises everything Hive knows about topic and makes the agent use it as foreground context.
/what-do-you-know-about	query	Runs a semantic search and weaves the top hits into the agent's next response.
/remember-this	key, value, tags (optional)	Stores the current selection under key, tagged if you provide comma-separated tags.
/forget-older-than	days	Enumerates memories older than days and interactively asks you to confirm each deletion.

/recall-context

Pulls in everything Hive already knows about a subject so the agent can answer follow-up questions from that context.

Example

/recall-context topic="the billing rewrite"

The agent calls summarize_context(topic='the billing rewrite') and uses the returned summary as its working context. If no memories match, the agent tells you so rather than hallucinating.

/what-do-you-know-about

Semantic search across your memories; handy when you remember a concept but not a specific key.

Example

/what-do-you-know-about query="our stance on Redis"

Runs search_memories(query='our stance on Redis', top_k=10) and cites each result by memory key.

/remember-this

Stores a memory without you having to say "remember that…" in prose. Most clients default value to the current editor selection.

Example

/remember-this key="release-cadence" value="Weekly, Thursdays at 2pm UTC" tags="ops,release"

Tags are comma-separated; blank entries are trimmed. If you omit tags the memory is still stored — the template always passes tags=[] to the remember tool so the argument never drifts.

/forget-older-than

Interactive prune using only Hive's actual MCP tools: the agent calls list_tags, walks each tag with list_memories(tag), and compares every memory's last_accessed_at to the threshold. If last_accessed_at is null (memory written but never recalled), the agent falls back to the version timestamp — a UTC ISO string that updates on every write and is always present in the response. The agent shows the key + the timestamp it used and asks for per-memory confirmation before calling forget.

Example

/forget-older-than days=180

The template explicitly forbids batch-delete without confirmation, so even if the agent returns many stale memories you stay in control.

Client support

Prompts only appear in clients that implement the MCP Prompts capability:

• Claude Code — surfaces prompts in the slash-command menu when Hive is connected.
• Cursor — shows prompts under the MCP panel.
• Claude Desktop — lists prompts alongside tools in the connector picker.

Clients that don't support Prompts ignore them — nothing breaks. You can still invoke the underlying tools directly by asking the agent in prose.

Why we ship Prompts

• Lower friction. "What does Hive know about X?" takes one slash command, not a sentence of natural language that the agent has to parse.
• Consistent invocation. The template passes the right tool name and parameters every time, so agents never forget to set top_k or tags.
• Discoverable. Connect Hive, type /, and see everything Hive can do for you — no need to read docs first.