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docs: the agent roster page is Agent permissions, and the docs say agent list

Roster named the permissions page, the hive's topology file and the swarm's list of agents without saying which. The page and its links are renamed; the implementation docs and UI text follow separately.
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iris 2026-11-11 23:02:31 +01:00 • committed by mara
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@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ runtime (Claude Code or any Agent Client Protocol agent) and its model. This
section covers running one: its identity, what survives a restart, how its
config changes, what its own page shows and how far you can trust it.
- **[Roster](agent-roster.md)** — the agents of a hive, and who may do what
to whom.
- **[Agent permissions](agent-permissions.md)** — the hive's list of agents, and
who may do what to whom.
- **[Persistence and config changes](persistence.md)** — what survives a
restart, a destroy and a purge, and how a change to an agent's config flows
from a pull request to its container.

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# Agent permissions
Agents are a **flat set**: no agent manages another by position. The
`manage_root_agent` permission is the one grant that reaches another agent.
## The hive's list of agents
Which agents exist is the swarm's to decide:
[which agents exist](../swarm/README.md#which-agents-exist). Each hive also
keeps a small file of its own, `topology.json`, with the agents this hive has
state or config for. You never edit it: the hive rebuilds it from what it sees
locally, so a hand edit is overwritten, and one that doesn't parse stops the
rebuild until you fix it. It matters for one thing, covered next.
## Who may reach whose state
An agent holding no permission sees its own directories and nothing else. An
agent holding `manage_root_agent` gets every other agent's `state` directory on
this hive mounted read-write at `/agents/<name>/state`, never `config` or
`harness`. It's the only grant that reaches another agent's state. Ruth, the
root agent, holds it (the swarm creates her from the `ruth` archetype, see
[which agents exist](../swarm/README.md#which-agents-exist)). The mounts
follow the hive's list: an empty file means no mounts until the next rebuild.
## The manager is a normal agent
`ruth` differs from other agents in her name and in that grant. Her
permissions, prompt and tools work as for every agent, and destroying her is as
final as for any other.
How the hive reads and rebuilds the file, the wire protocol and the prompt blocks:
[`roster.md`](../../4-implementation/agent-state/roster.md). The operator/agent
trust boundary is a separate axis: [`boundary.md`](../hives/boundary.md).

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@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ agent's whole encrypted history, not only messages from then on.
That's deliberate and it's the interim state, not the intent. An agent's
credential path doesn't name the hive hosting it (agents move between hives),
so a per-hive grant has to be an enumeration the controller re-emits whenever
the roster changes — and an enumeration that can drift or land out of order
the agent list changes — and an enumeration that can drift or land out of order
advertises a boundary it doesn't actually hold. A wide grant that says what it
is beats a narrow one that only looks narrow.