The agent roster page opened with how an agent comes to exist (the identity
store, swarmctl, the swarm UI, the ruth archetype), which is the swarm's
doing. That text now sits in a "Who is on the roster" section of the swarm
page, and the roster page keeps what is a hive's and an agent's: the hive's
own list, who may reach whose state, and that the manager is a normal agent.
The page says who is on the roster, who may reach whose state and that the
manager is a normal agent. How topology.json is read and rebuilt, the wire
protocol and the prompt blocks move to 4-implementation/agent-state/roster.md,
unchanged, since the code they describe still exists.
system.md carries {{ label }}-style variables and an {% if not archetype %} block in place of the config:repo / config:archetype marker pairs, so prompt.rs drops its line filter, marker parsers and string replaces. The rendered prompt is byte for byte the old one for a custom agent, an archetype agent and an empty archetype name, with and without hive, swarm, docs and operators. hive-template now drops a block tag's own line.
The operator parts of the persistence and config-changes pages merge into
agents/persistence.md. The sqlite tables, state dirs, mounts and migrations move
to 4-implementation/agent-state/persistence.md, and the deploy path, meta flake,
deploy markers, startup migrations, root container, system messages and
autoupdate move to 4-implementation/agent-state/config-changes.md. Links, code
comments and nix comments that named the old sections point at the new pages.
The handbook's sections were agent-lifecycle, integrations, swarm, tools,
trust-boundary and web-ui, which do not follow how the system is built, so a
reader could not tell which layer a page is about. Its pages now sit in
swarm/, hives/ and agents/, with the accounts an agent can hold outside the
system in external-accounts/.
- swarm/: forge, matrix and the knowledge repo join the swarm pages, and so
does the swarmctl reference.
- hives/: the dashboard, hivectl and its reference, and the operator/agent
boundary, with a README that takes over the old web-ui and tools pages.
- agents/: the roster, persistence, config changes, the agent's own web page
(was web-ui/agent) and the security model, with a README.
- external-accounts/: GitHub and GitLab.
Pages are moved whole; none is split yet. Every reference follows: relative
links in the docs, `docs/2-handbook/...` paths in code comments, the nix
checks that regenerate the CLI references and the ignore list, and docs/README.md,
whose handbook section is now by layer.
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Renamed from docs/2-handbook/agent-lifecycle/agent-roster.md (Previous history)
