hione — All In One AI Tools

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hione is an all-in-one AI tools desktop app + CLI system. The Tauri desktop app provides a graphical interface for managing agents, MCP servers, skills, and settings. The hi command is the CLI tool for launching multi-window AI collaboration in your terminal.

Supported Tools

How It Works

hione operates in two modes:

1. tmux mode (CLI default): hi start splits your current tmux session into panes — one per AI agent — and launches each tool automatically.
2. Desktop mode (Tauri): Each agent runs in a separate native window with an embedded XTerm.js terminal. This mode provides a richer UI for managing tasks and configurations.

Features

• Multi-Window Parallelism: hi start claude,opencode,gemini launches multiple AI terminals at once
• Task Dispatching: hi push <target> "<task>" routes tasks to specific agents
• Structured Result Detection: Reads each tool's native history storage — no fragile text scraping
• Auto-Pull on Stuck: Falls back to terminal snapshot capture for unknown tools after 30s
• tmux Layout: Splits your session into a smart grid (even = equal halves, odd = right-weighted)
• SQLite Persistence: All messages, snapshots, and task queues are stored for traceability
• Auto & Resume Modes: -a skips all permission prompts; -r restores last session context

Prerequisites

Runtime (always required)

tmux — used for the terminal layout when Tauri desktop is not available:

# macOS
brew install tmux

# Ubuntu / Debian
sudo apt install tmux

# Fedora
sudo dnf install tmux

Windows — tmux does not run natively on Windows. Use one of:

• WSL2 (recommended): Install WSL2, then inside the WSL terminal run sudo apt install tmux and use hi from there.
• Git Bash / Scoop: Limited support, not recommended for multi-window features.

AI tools — install whichever agents you want to use (see table above).

For end users — no Rust needed

Download a pre-built release from the Releases page and run the installer.

For building from source

# Install Rust (macOS / Linux)
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

# Install Node.js (via fnm)
curl -fsSL https://fnm.vercel.app/install | bash
fnm install 20 && fnm use 20

On Windows:

# Install Rust
winget install Rustlang.Rustup

# Install Node.js
winget install OpenJS.NodeJS.LTS

# Restart PowerShell after installation, then verify:
rustc --version
cargo --version
node --version

Installation

Option A — Pre-built Binary

Go to Releases and download:

Option B — Build from source (CLI + Desktop)

Using install script (recommended)

git clone https://github.com/your-org/hi.git
cd hione

# macOS / Linux
bash scripts/install.sh --with-desktop
export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"

# Windows (PowerShell)
pwsh scripts/install.ps1 -WithDesktop

The --with-desktop flag will build the Tauri application and install it alongside the hi CLI.

Manual build

git clone https://github.com/your-org/hi.git
cd hione

# 1. Install tauri-cli (required for cargo tauri build)
cargo install tauri-cli --locked

# 2. Install frontend dependencies (first time only)
cd crates/hi-tauri && npm install && cd ../..

# 3. Build desktop app (beforeBuildCommand handles CLI + frontend)
cargo tauri build

Windows PowerShell:

git clone https://github.com/your-org/hi.git
cd hione

# 1. Install tauri-cli
cargo install tauri-cli --locked

# 2. Install frontend dependencies
cd crates\hi-tauri; npm install; cd ..\..

# 3. Build desktop app
cargo tauri build

Desktop Application Usage

Once installed, you can launch the hione desktop app from your Applications folder (macOS), Start Menu (Windows), or via the command line:

# Launch the desktop UI
hi-tauri

In the desktop app, you can:

• Configure Agents: Set up paths and flags for each AI tool.
• Session Launcher: Select tools and project directories to start a new collaborative session.
• Task Panel: Monitor task queues and results across all active agents.
• Skill Manager: Manage custom skills and MCP servers.

Quick Start (CLI)

Prerequisite: CLI terminal mode requires running inside a tmux session. If you haven't installed the desktop app (hi-tauri), first enter tmux:

# Create a tmux session (required for terminal mode)
tmux new -s hi

# Then start three AI agents in separate windows
hi start claude,opencode,gemini

# Auto mode — skip all permission prompts
hi start -a claude,opencode,gemini

# Resume last session context
hi start -r claude,opencode,gemini

# Dispatch a task
hi push opencode "implement JWT auth"

# Check agent status
hi check opencode

# Pull current terminal content
hi pull opencode

CLI Reference

Start flags

Per-tool flags used internally:

Multi-Agent Collaboration

Custom Tools

Any tool not listed above can be configured in .hione/tools.toml:

[tools.ccg]
auto_flags   = ["--dangerously-skip-permissions"]
resume_flags = ["--continue"]

Unknown tools without config are passed through unchanged.

Task Protocol

When an agent completes a task pushed via hi push, it should end its reply with:

Task DONE: <uuid>

Hi detects completion automatically via each tool's structured history storage (JSONL / SQLite). The Task DONE line is required only when Claude coordinates other agents inside a session.

Architecture

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  hi push opencode "Implement login API"              │
└──────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────┘
                       │ Unix Socket (.hione/hi.sock)
                       ▼
              ┌────────────────┐         poll every 10s
              │   hi-monitor   │ ──────────────────────┐
              │  (daemon)      │                       │
              └────────┬───────┘                       ▼
                       │ Task Queue              ┌──────────────┐
                       │                         │   hi-tauri   │
                       ▼                         │  + XTerm.js  │
              ┌────────────────┐                 │  + PTY       │
              │ SQLite (.hione)│◄────Snapshots───┤              │
              │ messages/      │                 └──────┬───────┘
              │ snapshots/     │                        │
              │ task_queue     │                        ▼
              └────────────────┘               ┌─────────────────┐
                                               │  claude / gemini │
                                               │  opencode / ...  │
                                               └─────────────────┘

Contributing

Please read CLAUDE.md for contribution guidelines before submitting a PR.

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.