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-c0re
The unprivileged host daemon (runs as hive-core). Owns the sqlite
broker, the reminder queue, the generic job-DAG
queue, container lifecycle, gateway vhost wiring, forge/matrix config
reconciliation, per-container stats, and the axum operator dashboard.
Largest crate in the workspace — bin-only, no separate lib.
When to use it
Host-level, cross-container orchestration: spawning/rebuilding/
destroying agent containers, dashboard-visible
state, wiring each agent's gateway vhost and reconciling its forge
config-repo access and matrix room membership. The accounts themselves
are swarm-controller's (docs/2-handbook/swarm/forge.md). Agent-side
behavior (turn loop, MCP tools) lives in hive-agent/hive-agent-mcp
instead — this daemon only talks to agents over the socket wire types
in hive-sh4re.
Shape
Cohesive clusters live in directory submodules, each re-exported at
the crate root (crate::broker::… keeps resolving regardless of which
subdirectory a module actually lives in). One line each — read the
module's own //! doc-comment for real detail, don't expect this file
to track it:
dashboard/— the operator dashboard (containers, schedules, logs, topology).job_queue/— the job-DAG queue + desired-state reconciliation (docs/4-implementation/scheduler/coordinator.md).lifecycle/—nixos-containerlifecycle + per-agent config flake generation.stores/— sqlite-backed stores (broker, queues, audit, power).workers/— background sweeps (crash watch, autoupdate, knowledge sync).agent_config/— per-agent registries (permissions, resource limits, topology).stats/— dashboard metrics aggregation + OTEL export.socket_server/— the unix-socket request server for the per-agent sockets.forge/— optional Forgejo wiring (docs/2-handbook/swarm/forge.md).coordinator.rs— top-level wiring forserve.agent_set.rs— the files that follow the agent set (topology, gateway map).meta.rs— the commit that removes the legacy permission seed files.migrate.rs— schema/state migrations.matrix.rs,gateway_nginx.rs,priv_client.rs— matrix provisioning, gateway vhosts, and thehive-privclient respectively.
See the top-level AGENTS.md/docs/ index for the full reading-path
map.