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Bothive guides

Practical articles for building agents that can use integrations, knowledge, voice, channels, workflows, and your own APIs.

25 guides · Updated regularly

Advanced9 min

Building & Scheduling Workflows

Turn your bots into an operations team: chain steps visually, branch on logic, and run them automatically on a schedule.

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Basics6 min

Getting Started with Bothive

Your first 10 minutes on Bothive — sign up, get your bearings on the dashboard, and build your first working bot.

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Advanced10 min

Building Your First Swarm

Connect multiple agents together to solve complex problems through Swarm Architecture.

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Integrations7 min

Use a Bothive Agent in Mintlify Docs

Build a docs assistant in Bothive, ground it with your knowledge base, and expose it inside Mintlify through a widget, hosted chat, or API proxy.

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Development8 min

Understanding HiveLang

A deep dive into HiveLang's syntax, concepts, and how to write deterministic agent scripts.

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DevOps6 min

Deploying Bots to Production

Best practices for deploying bots, managing secrets, and monitoring performance.

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Basics7 min

Build Your First Bot

A step-by-step walkthrough: define a bot, give it capabilities, test it, and save it — two ways, in plain language or HiveLang.

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Integrations7 min

Connect a Bot to Your App

Call a bot you built on Bothive from your own product — with the SDK, the REST run endpoint, or the CORS chat endpoint.

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Integrations12 min

Connect Your Own API

Give a bot live access to your backend — your SaaS, your database, your business logic — without handing Bothive any credentials.

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DevOps6 min

Embed a Bot & Go Live

Make a bot public, embed it on your site, and ship it to real users — with keys, monitoring, and quotas handled.

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Basics5 min

Building with HiveMind

Use HiveMind, the AI copilot, to scaffold bots, integrations, and workflows just by describing what you want.

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Basics5 min

Give Your Bot Knowledge

Upload documents into a knowledge base so your bots can answer from your own content, not just their training data.

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Agents4 min

Give Agents an ElevenLabs Voice

Connect ElevenLabs, choose a voice for a bot, preview it, and let playground responses speak aloud.

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Integrations8 min

Generate Integrations from OpenAPI Specs

Upload an OpenAPI or Swagger JSON spec to HiveMind so it can build a custom integration your bots can use.

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Integrations5 min

API Keys & Authentication

Create, send, rotate, and secure the bh_ keys that let your app call hosted bots and workflows.

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DevOps5 min

Understanding Billing & Credits

How Bothive meters usage with credits, what counts against your quota, and how to keep costs down.

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Integrations9 min

Connecting Integrations

Connect Slack, Gmail, Notion, GitHub and more so your bots and workflows can act in the apps you already use.

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Advanced6 min

Triggers & Automation

Run workflows automatically — on a schedule, from a webhook, or in response to an app event — and call them from your app.

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Advanced5 min

Swarm vs. Workflow: Which to Use

Both coordinate multiple bots. Here's when to reach for an implicit Swarm vs. an explicit visual Workflow.

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Dashboard6 min

A Tour of the Dashboard

Where everything lives — bots, HiveMind, the Orchestrator, integrations, keys, knowledge, billing — and when to use each.

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Development5 min

Writing HiveLang in the Hive IDE

Prefer code? The Hive IDE lets you write, run, and iterate on HiveLang bots directly, with the full language at your fingertips.

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DevOps5 min

Monitoring Bots with Logs & Analytics

Watch requests in real time, track success rate and latency, and debug failures with per-run logs.

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Basics5 min

Writing Better Bot Instructions

Your bot is only as good as its instructions. Practical tips for clear, reliable agent behavior.

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Dashboard5 min

Publishing & Installing on HiveStore

Share a bot with others on HiveStore, or install a ready-made one into your own workspace in a click.

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Dashboard5 min

Workspaces, Teams & Permissions

Organize bots by project, invite teammates, and control who can do what with roles and permissions.

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