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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hive-forge-notify
Per-agent Forgejo notification poller: a long-running daemon
(hive-forge-notify) that watches the agent's unread notification list
and turns each thread into a todo the harness surfaces in
get_loose_ends. This is why an agent wakes up when someone comments
on its issue or requests its review.
When to use it
Look here when changing what a forge notification says when it
reaches an agent, or when it reaches one at all: the poll cadence, the
self-echo filter, the comment / review / new-item / state-change
wrapper formats, body-excerpt truncation, and the assigned-issue
rollup all live in notify.rs. The behaviour contract — activation
gates, filtering rules, the review-request override — is documented in
docs/2-handbook/swarm/forge.md, "Notification poller".
Shape
One bin, three modules:
main.rs— argument-free entry point. ReadsHIVE_AGENT_SOCKET, initialises tracing, hands off tonotify::run.notify.rs— the poller: forge client setup, the 30s loop, the formatters, mark-read, and the in-process delivery-dedupe map.todo_client.rs— one-shot JSON-line client for the harness's in-agent socket. No retry schedule of its own; see the module doc.
Why it is a separate process
It used to be a tokio::spawn inside the hive-agent serve loop. It
never needed anything from the serve loop except a socket path, and
running it in-process meant a harness restart also took forge
notifications down, and linked the whole forge/HTTP dependency tree
(forgejo-api, reqwest, time, url) into the serve-loop binary.
It is now a sibling daemon alongside hive-bash-daemon and
hive-matrix-daemon, with the same contract: it talks to the harness
over the in-agent todo socket and nowhere else.
Forge's own read-state is the durable, cross-rebuild record of what has been delivered — there is no persisted cursor to migrate or corrupt. A restarted poller re-scans only the genuinely-still-unread set, which is tiny by construction because delivery marks the thread read.