🥾 b00t — Agentic Hive OS

"Tell me what I'm running on, what tools are available, what I'm allowed to do, what goals I should optimize for, and where the boundaries are."

b00t is a context-aware agentic operating layer: tool discovery, version management, tribal knowledge, multi-agent coordination, and MCP integration — batteries included.

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⚡ Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elasticdotventures/_b00t_/main/install.sh | bash

Downloads the binary from GitHub Releases and verifies its SHA256 checksum when possible. Supports Linux x86_64/aarch64/armv7 and macOS Intel/Apple Silicon.

From crates.io:

cargo install b00t-cli

From source:

git clone https://github.com/elasticdotventures/_b00t_.git
cd _b00t_ && cargo install --path b00t-cli

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🚀 Quick Start

b00t --version
b00t status                        # check tool versions vs desired

b00t cli check rust                # is rustc installed?
b00t cli install uv                # install/upgrade to desired version
b00t cli up                        # check all datums
b00t cli up --yes                  # update all tools to desired versions

b00t learn rust                    # load Rust dev context into agent session
b00t learn docker                  # container orchestration knowledge

b00t lfmf rust "PyO3: unset CONDA_PREFIX before cargo build to fix linker errors"
b00t advice rust "PyO3"            # retrieve lessons for a tool+pattern

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🤖 MCP Integration

Claude Code Marketplace (recommended)

# In Claude Code, add the b00t marketplace plugin
/plugin marketplace add elasticdotventures/_b00t_
/plugin install b00t@b00t-plugins
/plugin install skill-document-understanding@b00t-plugins

Provides /b00t skill, context-aware tool dispatch, and all available b00t skills. Bundles publish deterministic MCP recipes at .claude-plugin/recipes/{skills,roles}/*.json (for example: skill-document-understanding provides docling-mcp + fetch-url-as-markdown).

Direct MCP Server

b00t mcp install b00t claudecode   # Claude Code
b00t mcp install b00t vscode       # VS Code
b00t mcp list                      # list available MCP servers

50+ MCP tools exposed via b00t-mcp — b00t_up, b00t_status, b00t_learn, b00t_lfmf, b00t_advice, and more.

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🐝 Hive Coordination

# Multi-agent mission coordination
b00t acp hive create mission-id 3 "Build and deploy microservice" leader
b00t acp hive join mission-id developer
b00t acp hive sync mission-id 1    # barrier: wait for all agents at step 1
b00t acp hive ready mission-id 2   # signal readiness for step 2

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🔁 Next Loop Interface

b00t.sh carries forward the useful Ralph/OODA loop lessons, but the standalone b00t-wiggums repo is sunset. The loop interface is now treated as a commodity execution surface, with higher-level research/orchestration living in b00t.sh and karpathy/autoresearch.

# Run with default claude tool, 10 iterations
bash b00t.sh

# Configure via env or flags
TOOL=mistralrs bash b00t.sh --max-iterations 5 --role executor
bash b00t.sh --tool codex --sleep 1

Tools: claude, codex, amp, opencode, mistralrs (local vLLM). Loop exits on EXIT_SIGNAL=true in LLM output, or exit 75 (tempfail/restart) after max iterations.

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📦 Datums

Datums in _b00t_/ declare tools with detect/install/desires/hint. b00t resolves DAG-ordered installs:

b00t cli detect fastmcp            # run datum detect script
b00t cli desires rust              # show target version
b00t cli install fastmcp           # install: python → uv → fastmcp (DAG-aware)

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🧠 Session & Budget Management

b00t session init --budget 25.00 --time-limit 120 --agent "code-reviewer"
b00t session status
b00t checkpoint "completed feature X"

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🌐 Platform Support

Platform	Architecture	Status
Linux	x86_64	✅
Linux	aarch64	✅
Linux	armv7	✅
macOS	Intel	✅
macOS	Apple Silicon	✅

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🛠 Development

git clone https://github.com/elasticdotventures/_b00t_.git && cd _b00t_
cargo build
cargo test --workspace
just -l                            # available recipes
just release                       # dispatch GitHub release workflow

Release pipeline: release.yml (tag + GitHub Release) → build-release.yml (cross-platform binaries) → publish-crates.yml (crates.io).

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📖 Docs

• b00t Gospel — philosophy and architecture
• Agent Guide — agent operation protocol
• CLAUDE.md — LLM alignment instructions
• Release Notes — changelog

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Issues / hive recruitment: github.com/elasticdotventures/b00t/issues