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docs: the forge, knowledge, archetypes, matrix and SSO pages move their implementation detail out

Account minting, knowledge sync, the archetype refresh, the matrix appservice
flow and the SSO secret delivery move to pages under 4-implementation/swarm.
Each handbook page keeps what an operator does or sees, with a pointer.
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@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ read-only — agents never write through it. To contribute, use the
`hive-forge` AGit flow (no fork needed — see
[Contributing](#contributing)); the operator reviews and merges, and
the local clone updates automatically (see
[Sync mechanism](#sync-mechanism) below).
[Staying current](#staying-current) below).
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@ -38,91 +38,25 @@ and every few minutes after, and seeds an empty one with a `README.md`
containing a contribution guide and a blank table of contents. Add an entry to that ToC each time you
create a new document.
## Sync mechanism
## Staying current
hive-c0re maintains the local clone at
`/var/lib/hyperhive/knowledge` via two paths:
Each hive keeps a local clone of the repo and mounts it read-only into every
agent container. The swarm controller holds the single push hook on
`internal/knowledge`, and on any push to main it sends an event that makes
every hive pull. A periodic pull closes the gap for a hive that was offline, so
one hive may briefly show older content than another. When a pull changes
anything, every agent gets a `/knowledge updated` notice.
1. **Swarm event** — the swarm controller holds the single push hook on
`internal/knowledge` (see
[swarm-wide forge webhooks](../../4-implementation/swarm/controller.md#swarm-wide-forge-webhooks)).
On any push to main, including merge commits, it sends an
event to every hive over the swarm queue and each hive runs `git
pull`, so agents see the new content on their next turn.
**Don't add a per-hive hook.** A webhook has one target URL, so a second
registration takes delivery away from whoever registered first.
A hive that's offline when the swarm controller sends the event
doesn't get it on reconnect — the periodic pull below is what closes that gap. One
hive briefly showing older `/knowledge` content than another is
expected, and resolves by itself within the fallback interval.
The clone lives on the host at `/var/lib/hyperhive/knowledge` and survives
hive-c0re restarts and agent destroy or recreate; only a manual delete removes
it. The mount leaves out `.git`, so agents see the documents but not the
history.
**don't add a per-hive hook.** A webhook has exactly one target
URL, so a second registration against the same repo doesn't add a
recipient — it takes delivery away from whoever registered first.
Earlier versions had each hive register its own, and later ones
removed that leftover at startup. A hive upgraded straight past those
versions still holds its old hook: delete any hook on the repo that
points at a hive's own `/webhook/knowledge`.
2. **Periodic pull** — a background task in `hive-c0re::main`
queues a pull on a fixed cadence as a fallback (webhook missed, c0re
restarted between pushes). The pull is best-effort — a failure
shows as a failed `KnowledgePull` node on the job queue, counts toward
the `knowledge_pull` hive warning, and doesn't affect the rest of the daemon.
A failed pull of either kind, or the one at boot, also queues a retry after 5 s,
doubling per failure in a row up to 5 min, until a pull succeeds. The
`knowledge_pull` hive warning appears after seven failures in a row, about five
minutes in, so a forge still starting at boot raises nothing.
Both paths, and the one pull at boot, queue the same `KnowledgePull` job
node. It holds the working tree for its duration, so two pulls never run
over each other — each trigger queues its own pass, and a pass that lands
while another is already queued or running waits its turn, since the
one ahead of it may have fetched before the push. The node runs
`knowledge::pull()`, which also handles the change notice below.
### Change notice
When a pull actually moves the local clone's `HEAD` (a real change,
not a no-op — for example the periodic pull finding nothing new), hive-c0re
broadcasts a short notice to every currently registered agent's inbox:
sender `system`, body `[system] /knowledge updated:` followed by a
`git diff --stat <old>..<new>` summary of what changed (or a generic
"see the repo" fallback if computing the diff itself fails). This is
the same broadcast mechanism used for other hive-wide notices — inbox
message only, no forced wake, and it carries the standard "this was a
broadcast" hint. hive-c0re logs a diff or per-agent send failure
without blocking the pull itself.
On a hive with no local clone yet, `knowledge::pull()` takes the clone
instead of pulling, so every hive gets `/knowledge` from its first pull,
whether or not it runs the forge. It authenticates with the hive's forge
read token when it has one (see
[forge.md](forge.md#how-a-hive-reads-the-forge)) and clones the public
repo anonymously otherwise.
## State
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- **Host clone**: `/var/lib/hyperhive/knowledge` — persists across
hive-c0re restarts and agent destroy/recreate. Deleted only by
manual operator action.
- **In-container mount**: `/knowledge` — bind-mounted read-only
from the host clone on every container start. Gone when container
is stopped; reappears on next start with the current clone state.
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The mount deliberately **excludes `.git`**: hive-priv overlays an empty
tmpfs at `/knowledge/.git`, so agents see the documents, not the branches or
history. An older clone also kept a token in `.git/config`; `knowledge::pull()`
rewrites that remote to the plain URL.
hive-priv adds the overlay only when the host clone has a `.git`. Before the
first clone succeeds, the agent starts with an empty `/knowledge` and no
overlay, because nspawn can't create the mount point inside the read-only
bind. A container that started in that window sees the `.git` once the clone
lands, until its next start.
The sync jobs, retry timing, the change notice and the mount rules:
[`knowledge.md`](../../4-implementation/swarm/knowledge.md).
## Contributing
@ -161,7 +95,7 @@ required.
4. The operator reviews and merges. The webhook fires on merge; every
running container sees the updated content within seconds (see
[Sync mechanism](#sync-mechanism)).
[Staying current](#staying-current)).
Do **not** try to `git push` a branch directly — lacking write access,
it's rejected. The `--agit` flow above is the no-fork path that works