Read the compact hive://toolsets index or call search_tools with the user's intent. Use its tool and toolset cursors instead of requesting a broad catalog.
Select one canonical task toolset and the single compact routes[] entry whose trigger/question matches the user's intent. Preserve its route_id; broad coverageCatalog arrays are not an execution plan.
Ask for the route's missing identifiers before execution.
Follow its ordered steps, calling get_api_endpoint_schema for each exact primary tool. Use a fallback only under that step's published condition.
Call reads through invoke_api_endpoint. For an explicitly approved Hive-native state change, use invoke_stateful_endpoint; never auto-approve that router.
Stop when the route's stop condition is met or its maxMaterialCalls (2, 3, or 4, depending on the route) is used. Copy server-returned _hive blocks into the task receipt and run validate_task_result with the selected route_id before presenting a structured result.
Report source recency, provider/runtime status, and missing-data caveats.

Read references/root-mcp-workflow.md when you need the bigger picture: how the root MCP endpoint is organized, what resources exist, or how to navigate without loading the full provider catalog into context.

Canonical task toolsets

hive://toolsets is authoritative; this table is the routing shortcut.

Intent	Toolset id
Price, exchange, OHLC, liquidity, derivatives	`market_research`
Token metadata, holders, liquidity, enrichment, risk	`token_diligence`
Wallet balances, transfers, PnL, NFTs, DeFi positions	`wallet_investigation`
Token, approval, phishing, address, simulation risk	`security_risk`
Pools, pairs, trades, OHLCV, DEX flow	`onchain_dex_pool_analysis`
TVL, fees, yields, stablecoins, bridges	`defi_protocol_analysis`
NFT ownership, metadata, floors, sales, rarity	`nft_research`
Blocks, gas, logs, receipts, RPC diagnostics	`network_infrastructure`
Solana wallets, SPL accounts, DAS assets, priority fees	`solana_analysis`
Tokenized RWA perps, cross-venue funding, carry, open interest	`rwa_perp_analysis`
Polymarket odds, events, order books, odds history, wallet positions	`prediction_markets`
Durable monitors, alerts, scheduled reports, agent memory	`stateful_monitoring`
Ambiguous request or schema lookup	`search_discovery`

Worked example

User: "Investigate this wallet on Ethereum."

Use wallet_investigation. Required identifiers are wallet address and chain. Then: search_tools for wallet investigation ethereum balances, get_api_endpoint_schema for the selected endpoint, then invoke_api_endpoint with schema-valid address and chain arguments. Do not hardcode endpoint names from memory — the catalog changes and search is authoritative.

Add transfer, NFT, or DeFi-position tools only when the user's question needs that detail.

Report template

Use this structure for Hive-backed answers:

## Summary
[One or two sentences answering the user.]

## Calls made
- Toolset: [task toolset]
- Endpoint(s): [exact endpoint names]
- Identifiers: [chain, wallet, contract, market, protocol, etc.]

## Evidence
- Provider/source: [provider names]
- Freshness: [Hive fetched_at/observed_at/cache_age_ms plus provider timestamp, block, or slot; upstream recency unknown if absent]
- Runtime status: [ok/invalid_input/missing_key/plan_required/rate_limited/degraded/failing]

## Caveats
[Fallbacks, stale data, unavailable providers, missing identifiers, limits.]

## Next action
[Only include if a retry, deeper check, or user choice is needed.]

Evidence receipt (required)

End every Hive-backed answer with a compact receipt built from the _hive object on each material tool response:

provider, tool, fetched_at, observed_at, cache_age_ms, and runtime_status
receipt_id, receipt_version, server/build version, and SHA-256 input/result digests when present (self-checks, not signatures)
source, cache_status, truncated, and any warnings
canonical chain/entity identifiers plus block, slot, transaction, or query ids present in provider data
material provider disagreements and how they were handled
checks that were unavailable, gated, stale, truncated, or intentionally not run
a claims[] citation from each material statement to exact receipt IDs
one coverage[] entry for every canonical evidence phase, with each gap explained

Never turn missing evidence into a clean result, silently merge conflicting provider values, or omit a degraded/fallback call from the receipt. observed_at is Hive's first-observation/original cache-population time, and cache_age_ms: 0 only means newly retrieved by Hive. Use provider time, block, slot, transaction, or candle close for upstream recency; if absent, mark it unknown. validate_task_result checks structure but cannot authenticate an invented receipt.

Runtime status handling

Hive uses ok, invalid_input, missing_key, plan_required, rate_limited, degraded, and failing. Do not treat a non-ok provider state as a missing tool. Tell the user which task/tool failed, why, and what can be retried or upgraded.

Guardrails

Never invent token, wallet, market, or event identifiers.
Prefer exact contract addresses, wallet addresses, pair addresses, market ids, or exchange ids over fuzzy names.
Keep raw provider endpoints callable; task toolsets are only the selection layer.
If a tool is absent from this skill, use search_tools instead of guessing.

Hand-offs

A domain-specific hive-* skill matches the question → prefer it; this skill is the generalist entry point.
Routing cannot surface the exact tool or schema → hive-tool-discovery.
The user wants Hive to keep watching something → hive-stateful-monitoring.

hive-query

hive-query — Route Crypto Questions Through Hive

Routing procedure