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swarm-matrix-ctl: one control binary for the matrix container, not one per job

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Renames `swarm-matrix-minter` and reshapes it around subcommands. Minting
is now `swarm-matrix-ctl mint`.

Running rust inside `containers.hive-matrix` is not free: it needs its own
store identity, its own cert role and its own bind mounts, and every one of
those is per-*container*, not per-task. A second single-purpose crate would
have had to duplicate that plumbing to add one action, so the next thing
that has to run in there should be a verb here rather than a new crate.
The old name guaranteed the opposite.

`main.rs` is clap dispatch; the minting logic moves to `mint.rs` unchanged.
A bare invocation is refused: `mint` writes a credential, so "no verb"
defaulting to it would make a typo in the unit mint rather than fail.

The environment prefix moves with it, `MATRIX_MINTER_*` → `MATRIX_MINT_*`.
Scoped to the verb and not to the binary, because a binary-scoped prefix is
one the next verb has to share or widen, and a widened one never narrows
again. A test asserts every variable carries the verb's prefix.

The principal renames too. The cert role, bao policy, granting unit, leaf
filename and `certAuthCns` entry all have to spell one string the same way,
so leaving them as `swarm-matrix-minter` would have rebuilt the naming
split this branch exists to remove. Renaming the nix options alongside is
free here: every one of them is introduced by this PR and has never been
released, so no operator config names them yet.

`ExecStart` now names the verb, which is a contract between a nix string
and a clap enum that fails at deploy time with no local signal. Both ends
assert it: `mint_is_spelled_the_way_the_unit_invokes_it` in the crate, and
a new module-eval arm reading the rendered `ExecStart`.

docs/getting-started/setup.md drops the sender token from its "live on the
host" list: setup does not touch this credential, so a setup guide has no
reason to name it.
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atlas 2026-09-20 14:29:45 +02:00 • committed by mara
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@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ See [`tools/hivectl.md`](../tools/hivectl.md) for every `hivectl` verb.
- **No forge admin token is stored in any agent state dir.** Agents
hold a regular agent token in their `forge-token` file; sensitive
creds (the core token, the matrix sender token) live on the host.
creds (the core token) live on the host.
- All config changes (forge PRs on `agent-configs/<name>`) go through
operator approval — agents can't unilaterally rebuild containers, by design.
See [`boundary.md`](../trust-boundary/boundary.md) and [`security.md`](../trust-boundary/security.md).

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@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ homeserver runs no `admin_execute` for it.
Its access token is the **sender token**, and it's the credential
hive-c0re presents for every homeserver call it makes on the hive's
behalf. `swarm-matrix-minter` mints it inside the `hive-matrix`
behalf. `swarm-matrix-ctl` mints it inside the `hive-matrix`
container and publishes it to `swarm/services/matrix/sender-token`; the
hive reads it from there. The name says what it authenticates as — an
account the appservice registration brings into being — rather than any

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@ -54,15 +54,15 @@ strategy for every credential, including the mTLS leaf.
<!-- vale write-good.Passive = NO -->
| store path | minter | reader — pulls at runtime, holds in memory | renewal |
| -------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------- |
| `swarm/agents/<agent>/matrix/<account>` | `swarm-controller` | the agent container itself, under the certificate its hive passed in | must be stated |
| `swarm/agents/<agent>/bao-mtls` | `swarm-controller`, at agent creation | `hive-c0re`, under the hive's own certificate, when it writes the agent's container config | must be stated |
| `swarm/hives/<hive>/matrix/appservice-token` | one minter, on the authelia host | the hive process that presents the token to its homeserver, under the hive's own certificate | must be stated |
| `swarm/hives/<hive>/queue/agent` | authelia | the agent container presenting the OIDC client to the swarm queue, under its own certificate | must be stated |
| `swarm/services/<clientId>/oidc/client` | authelia | the service process that presents the client secret, under the certificate of the host it runs on | must be stated |
| `swarm/services/matrix/sender-token` | `swarm-matrix-minter`, in the `hive-matrix` container | `swarm-matrix-minter` itself, under its own certificate, before it decides whether to mint, and hive-c0re's `stored_sender_token()`, under the hive's own certificate | must be stated |
| _(not in the store)_ a hive's mTLS leaf | the store's own PKI, or an operator placing it by hand | its own client, off disk — the exception above, because it's what makes every other row's pull possible | must be stated |
| store path | minter | reader — pulls at runtime, holds in memory | renewal |
| -------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------- |
| `swarm/agents/<agent>/matrix/<account>` | `swarm-controller` | the agent container itself, under the certificate its hive passed in | must be stated |
| `swarm/agents/<agent>/bao-mtls` | `swarm-controller`, at agent creation | `hive-c0re`, under the hive's own certificate, when it writes the agent's container config | must be stated |
| `swarm/hives/<hive>/matrix/appservice-token` | one minter, on the authelia host | the hive process that presents the token to its homeserver, under the hive's own certificate | must be stated |
| `swarm/hives/<hive>/queue/agent` | authelia | the agent container presenting the OIDC client to the swarm queue, under its own certificate | must be stated |
| `swarm/services/<clientId>/oidc/client` | authelia | the service process that presents the client secret, under the certificate of the host it runs on | must be stated |
| `swarm/services/matrix/sender-token` | `swarm-matrix-ctl`, in the `hive-matrix` container | `swarm-matrix-ctl` itself, under its own certificate, before it decides whether to mint, and hive-c0re's `stored_sender_token()`, under the hive's own certificate | must be stated |
| _(not in the store)_ a hive's mTLS leaf | the store's own PKI, or an operator placing it by hand | its own client, off disk — the exception above, because it's what makes every other row's pull possible | must be stated |
<!-- vale write-good.Passive = YES -->