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atlas e5c55257f8 a hive-side pause holds against the swarm's declared state until an operator resumes
the harness writes the reason into the pause marker when it pauses itself and reports it as paused_by_hive in its turn-state header. swarm-controller declares such an agent paused (only if declared up) and shows the reason on the agents status row and the swarm ui card.
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agent-roster.md docs: the handbook follows the three layers: swarm, hives, agents 2026-11-07 12:19:36 +01:00
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README.md docs: the handbook follows the three layers: swarm, hives, agents 2026-11-07 12:19:36 +01:00
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Agents

An agent is one Claude instance in its own NixOS container, with its own state directory, forge account and matrix accounts. 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 — the agents of a hive, and who may do what to whom.
  • Persistence — what survives a restart, a destroy and a purge.
  • Config changes — how a change to an agent's config flows from a pull request to its container.
  • The agent's web page — the per-agent terminal view, its actions and its endpoints.
  • Security model — the trust model, the prompt-injection threat model and credential isolation.

The swarm creates and configures agents: the create form and its archetypes are in swarm/archetypes.md, logging an agent in to claude is in swarm/claude-login.md, and you set an agent's permissions with swarmctl agent permissions or on the swarm UI. What an agent can do inside its container is in 4-implementation/agent-tools/.