Hive API

Name: Hive API API
Brand: Hive API
Availability: InStock

✓ Official Vendor SpecProductivityTask ManagementapiKey29 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Create and manage Hive actions, projects, comments, attachments, and labels, and subscribe to workspace events via webhooks.

Quickstart

Get started with Hive API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"create a task in hive"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Hive API API.

Create, update, and delete Hive actions with status transitions and assignees

List and update projects within a workspace, including nested action collections

Add comments and attachments to actions for collaborative review

Audit action history to see status changes and ownership transitions

Manage labels and custom fields applied to actions and projects

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Use Cases

Patterns agents use Hive API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Cross-Tool Task Sync

Operations teams keep Hive in sync with engineering tools by mirroring tasks from GitHub, Linear, or Jira into Hive actions. The API supports create, update-status, and comment endpoints so an agent can reflect external state without manual copy. Status changes propagate via webhook for real-time updates.

Create a Hive action titled 'Review PR #42' in project proj_123 with status 'in_progress' and assignee user_55.

Status Reporting Automation

Project leads need weekly status digests across many actions and projects. The agent calls list endpoints across workspaces, summarises action status counts, and posts a digest to Slack or email. This replaces manual screenshot-based status reporting that consumes hours per week.

List all actions in workspace ws_abc grouped by status and return counts of open, in-progress, and completed for the week.

Webhook-Driven Notifications

Teams want lightweight, real-time pings when specific Hive actions change. Webhook subscriptions deliver action events as they happen so agents can route notifications, update related systems, or kick off downstream automation. This avoids polling the action list endpoint on a timer.

Create a Hive webhook subscribed to action-status-changed events for workspace ws_abc pointing at the agent's ingestion URL.

Agent-Driven Project Setup

An AI ops agent connected via Jentic spins up a new project — creates the project record, attaches the standard label set, and seeds the kickoff actions — all from a single instruction. Credentials remain in the Jentic vault so the agent never holds the api_key or user_id headers. Setup time drops from a manual checklist to a single agent call.

Create a new Hive project 'Q3 Launch' in workspace ws_abc, attach labels 'launch' and 'priority', and create five seed actions.

Key Endpoints

29 endpoints — hive is a project management platform built around actions (tasks), projects, and team collaboration.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

POST

/actions/create

Create a new action

GET

/workspaces/{workspaceId}/actions

List actions in a workspace

PUT

/actions/update-status

Update action status

POST

/actions/{actionId}/comments

Add a comment to an action

GET

/actions/{actionId}/history

View action change history

POST

/actions/create

Create a new action

GET

/workspaces/{workspaceId}/actions

List actions in a workspace

PUT

/actions/update-status

Update action status

POST

/actions/{actionId}/comments

Add a comment to an action

GET

/actions/{actionId}/history

View action change history

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

The api_key and user_id headers are both stored encrypted in the Jentic vault. Agents execute Hive calls through Jentic and never see either header value.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search by intent (e.g., 'create a hive task') and Jentic returns the matching Hive operation with its input schema, so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing docs.

Time to first call

Direct Hive integration: 1-2 days to wire dual-header auth, action lifecycle, and webhook receipt. Through Jentic: under 1 hour — search, load schema, execute.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Alternative

Asana API

Asana is a widely used project and task management API

Choose Asana when the team standardises on it for tasks; choose Hive when working inside a Hive workspace with actions and labels.

Alternative

monday.com API

monday.com offers a board-centric work management API

Choose monday.com for board-and-column workflows; choose Hive when actions, comments, and history are the primary objects.

Alternative

ClickUp API

ClickUp covers tasks, docs, goals, and chat in one workspace

Choose ClickUp when the team needs a broader workspace API; choose Hive when action-level workflow with labels and history is the priority.

FAQs

Specific to using Hive API API through Jentic.

What authentication does the Hive API use?

Hive uses two header-based credentials together: api_key for the workspace key and user_id to identify the calling user. Both are required on every request. Through Jentic, both header values are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault and injected at execution time.

Can I create actions and assign them through the Hive API?

Yes. POST /actions/create accepts title, project, status, and assignee fields. After creation, PUT /actions/update-status moves the action through workflow stages, and POST /actions/{actionId}/comments adds collaborative notes.

What are the rate limits for the Hive API?

Hive does not publish hard rate limits in its OpenAPI spec. Treat the API as moderate-volume — keep request rates below a few per second per workspace and back off on 429 responses.

How do I receive real-time Hive events through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'create hive webhook', load POST to the webhooks resource, and execute with your event types and target URL. Run pip install jentic and use the async SearchRequest, LoadRequest, ExecutionRequest pattern to wire the subscription.

Can I view the change history for a Hive action?

Yes. GET /actions/{actionId}/history returns the audit log for an action, including status transitions, assignee changes, and label edits. Use it to reconstruct who changed what and when.