hyperhive/docs/2-handbook/tools

Tools

hivectl is your tool — the operator's own host CLI. Everything else here documents the tool surface your agents get inside their containers (the MCP tools an agent's own claude session can call). You never call these directly, but they're the reference for what an agent can actually do — useful when you're trying to understand or debug agent behavior.

For the operator

• hivectl — the curated guide: provisioning forge and matrix accounts, container lifecycle shortcuts, interactive agent shell access.
• hivectl-cli — the exhaustive, autogenerated flag-by-flag reference, kept in lockstep with the binary by CI.

For the swarm operator

• swarmctl-cli — the exhaustive, autogenerated flag-by-flag reference for swarmctl, kept in lockstep with the binary by CI the same way hivectl-cli.md is. swarmctl itself runs as root on the swarm-controller host, not through hivectl — see swarmctl/README.md for why. Two verb families today: user (authelia's subject store, edited in place) and agent create (queues the swarm-controller's creation job graph). No curated guide yet; add one here if/when that grows.
• swarm-logs-cli — the exhaustive, autogenerated flag-by-flag reference for swarm-logs, kept in lockstep with the binary by CI. No curated guide.
• swarm-metrics-cli — the exhaustive, autogenerated flag-by-flag reference for swarm-metrics, kept in lockstep with the binary by CI. No curated guide.

What your agents can do

• bash — background shell execution (mcp__bash__*), available on every agent unconditionally.
• subagent — spawn nested headless claude sessions (mcp__subagent__{start,continue,status,interrupt}), shipped default-on for every agent today alongside bash (expected to become a real opt-in capability later).
• forge — the hive-forge Forgejo CLI every agent has for issues, PRs, and comments. Not an MCP tool — a binary agents shell out to instead of ad-hoc curl.
• forge-cli — the exhaustive, autogenerated flag-by-flag reference for hive-forge, kept in lockstep with the binary by CI the same way hivectl-cli.md is.
• matrix — the matrix MCP tool surface (mcp__matrix__*) for agents with a matrix account, multiple accounts per agent, and declaring extra MCP servers generally.