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archetypes: build an archetype agent from its archetype's module on the hive

The hive reads the agent-archetype key when it provisions and rebuilds an
agent and keeps it in swarm-agent-archetypes.json. For an archetype agent
the meta flake has no agent-<name> input and mkAgent imports
hyperhive.hyperhiveArchetypes.<name>.module; provisioning, rebuilds, the
meta-input cascade, a deploy's rev and the startup migration skip the
config repos. The harness gets HIVE_ARCHETYPE and the system prompt says
the agent has no config repo. The create form sends the picked archetype.
Adds the android-dev built-in.

Refs #5386
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atlas 2026-10-17 08:49:03 +02:00 • committed by mara
commit 553ed8376c
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@ -106,13 +106,16 @@ state dirs work as for every other agent.
deploy log). Any agent holding it gets the same mounts.
The operator dashboard's `POST /api/meta-update` is the only path
that writes `flake.lock`.
- **Prompt** — identical for every container: `prompts/system.md`
- **Prompt** — identical for every container but one block (below):
`prompts/system.md`
carries `<!-- role:agent -->` / `<!-- role:manager -->` marker
blocks, and `prompt::render` filters for `"agent"` unconditionally,
manager included ("always `agent` role — there is only one role",
`hive-agent/src/prompt.rs`'s own module doc). The `role:manager`
blocks are dead in production, exercised only by a unit test
(`filter_role_blocks(SAMPLE, "manager")`).
(`filter_blocks(SAMPLE, "role", "manager")`). The one block that differs
is `<!-- config:repo -->` vs `<!-- config:archetype -->`: an agent built
from an [archetype](../swarm/archetypes.md) is told it has no config repo.
- **Tool allow-list** — the MCP tools claude sees come from the agent's
permissions alone, the same mechanism for every agent
([`docs/turn-loop/mcp.md`](../turn-loop/mcp.md)). Ruth's permissions

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@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ Creating a brand-new agent is swarm-level (`swarmctl agent create`,
an agent. The swarm controller's `InitAgentConfigRepo` job seeds the
agent's config repo with a default `agent.nix` template, then asks the
target hive to deploy it.
An agent created from an [archetype](../swarm/archetypes.md) gets no
config repo: its hive builds it from the archetype's module.
Changing what the template seeded isn't a special case: like every
later change, it's a PR on that config repo, made from a clone and

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@ -420,6 +420,12 @@ reads it at every container start for `manage_root_agent`. Each agent gets
its own entry from it as `swarm-permissions.json` in its runtime dir, which
it holds until its own first read of its key succeeds.
`/var/lib/hyperhive/swarm-agent-archetypes.json` holds the archetype each of
this hive's archetype agents runs, as last read from the swarm's
`agent-archetype` bucket at the agent's provision and each rebuild. An agent
with an entry has no `applied/<n>` repo and no `agent-<n>` meta input; see
[archetypes](../swarm/archetypes.md).
hive-c0re renders containers onto `meta#<n>` at creation.
## Destroy vs purge

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@ -1,21 +1,24 @@
# Agent archetypes
An archetype is a named set of settings to create an agent from. The swarm
UI's create form lists the archetypes the swarm knows. Picking one fills the
form's permissions, resource caps and inference fields from it, and you can
still change each field before you create the agent.
An archetype is a named agent setup: settings to create the agent with, and
a NixOS module its container runs. The swarm UI's create form lists the
archetypes the swarm knows. Picking one fills the form's permissions,
resource caps and inference fields from it, and you can still change each
field before you create the agent.
The agent you create this way is an ordinary agent: it gets its own
`agent-configs/<name>` repo like any other, and the request carries only the
fields as the form shows them. Nothing records which archetype you picked.
An agent created from an archetype has no `agent-configs/<name>` repo of its
own. Its hive builds it from the archetype's module, so every agent of that
archetype runs the same configuration. To change what it runs, change the
archetype. Picking "none" creates a custom agent, with its own config repo.
## The built-in archetypes
The hyperhive flake ships these:
| archetype | what it sets |
| ---------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `reviewer` | permissions `messaging`, `inbox`, `execution`: the default set without `meta`. With `execution` it can run `hive-forge`, `git` and other commands. |
| archetype | what it sets |
| ------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `reviewer` | permissions `messaging`, `inbox`, `execution`: the default set without `meta`. With `execution` it can run `hive-forge`, `git` and other commands. |
| `android-dev` | installs `android-tools` (`adb`, `fastboot`), Gradle and a JDK; default permissions. |
## Where an archetype comes from
@ -38,8 +41,8 @@ hyperhiveArchetypes.reviewer = {
- Every archetype needs a `description`. `permissions`, `limits` and
`inference` are optional and take the shapes `POST /api/agents` takes. The swarm ignores
other keys in `meta`.
- `module` is a NixOS module for the agent's container. The swarm doesn't
apply it yet.
- `module` is a NixOS module for the agent's container. A hive imports it
into each agent created from the archetype.
Today the swarm reads one flake: the hyperhive source the
[builder](builder.md)'s host runs, so only the built-ins appear.
@ -85,3 +88,42 @@ The stored value:
"refused": { "broken": "limits: …" }
}
```
## Creating an agent from an archetype
The create form sends the picked archetype as `archetype` on
`POST /api/agents`, `{ "source": "hyperhive", "name": "reviewer" }`. The
controller refuses with 400 an archetype the stored list doesn't hold, then:
1. stores the choice in the `agent-archetype` KV bucket, keyed by agent name,
next to the agent's permissions, caps and inference;
2. queues the creation graph without `CreateRepo`, `AddRepoMember` and
`InitAgentConfigRepo`. Identity, forge user, docs read, the mints and the
wanted state stay, and the deploy waits on those alone.
Destroying the agent deletes its key.
Every hive may read any key of the bucket
(`$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_agent-archetype.>`) and write none; only the
controller writes it.
The hive reads the agent's key when it provisions the agent and on every
rebuild, and keeps the last value read in
`/var/lib/hyperhive/swarm-agent-archetypes.json`, so the meta flake renders
without the queue. When the read fails, a rebuild keeps the value
stored there. For an archetype agent the hive:
- seeds no `proposed` or `applied` repo, and gives the meta flake no
`agent-<name>` input. `mkAgent` imports
`hyperhive.hyperhiveArchetypes.<name>.module` in place of the agent's own
flake, and sets `HIVE_ARCHETYPE` in the harness environment;
- relocks no agent input on a rebuild or a meta-input bump, and ignores the
`rev` of a swarm deploy request;
- mounts an empty `/agents/<name>/config/`.
The agent's system prompt says it has no config repo and names its
archetype.
The hive takes the module from its own `hyperhive` input. When that input
predates the archetype, the agent's build fails with
`this hive's hyperhive input has no archetype <name>`. Update the hive's
`hyperhive` input to fix it.

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@ -255,7 +255,12 @@ needs to `chown` a bind mount), once at startup:
`hive-agent/prompts/system.md` by `hive-agent`'s `prompt::render`:
HTML-comment markers (`<!-- role:agent -->...<!-- /role:agent -->`,
same for `role:manager`) gate the role-specific blocks; both flavors
share everything else. Five placeholders are then
share everything else. `<!-- config:repo -->` and
`<!-- config:archetype -->` blocks gate the config-repo paragraphs: an
agent with `HIVE_ARCHETYPE` set (the meta flake sets it on an agent built
from an [archetype](../swarm/archetypes.md)) gets the archetype block and
every other agent the repo block, with `{archetype}` filled in with the
archetype's name. Five placeholders are then
substituted: `{label}` (short agent name), `{qualified_label}`
(hive-qualified `name@domain` form),
`{hive_identity}` (for example `` on hive `pr1ma` ``; empty when
@ -275,14 +280,17 @@ needs to `chown` a bind mount), once at startup:
telling the agent where the docs live.
Passed via `--system-prompt-file`.
**Marker grammar.** `<!-- role:X -->` opens a block; any
`<!-- /role:X -->` closes the current block. The renderer always uses
role `agent`, so it elides blocks with other role tags. Nesting **isn't**
**Marker grammar.** `<!-- KIND:X -->` opens a block; any
`<!-- /KIND:X -->` closes the current block of that kind. The renderer
filters the two kinds one after the other. The renderer always uses
role `agent`, so it elides blocks with other role tags, and config `repo`
or `archetype` as above. Nesting **isn't**
supported — a stray opener with no closer runs until end of file.
The renderer tolerates whitespace inside markers (`<!--role:foo-->` parses the
same as `<!-- role:foo -->`). Content outside any marker is always
included. Today's `system.md` carries no markers (single agent role) —
the grammar stays wired for a future manager / multi-role prompt.
included. Today's `system.md` carries no role markers (single agent
role), and the role grammar stays wired for a future manager / multi-role
prompt; it carries one pair of config blocks.
**`hive_identity` / `swarm_identity` shape.** Each carries a
leading space + backticked name (` on hive \`pr1ma\``,