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+# hive-c0re
+
+The unprivileged host daemon (runs as `hive-core`). This is the biggest
+crate in the workspace — it owns the sqlite broker, the approval /
+question / reminder / schedule queues, the generic job-DAG queue,
+lifecycle (`nixos-container` shellouts + per-agent flake generation),
+gateway/forge/matrix provisioning, per-container stats, and the axum
+operator dashboard.
+
+`hive-c0re` is **bin-only**: this binary owns the whole module tree
+directly (no separate lib crate). The operator CLI used to live here
+too, but moved out to the standalone `hivectl` crate, which talks to
+this daemon over the host admin socket instead of linking it.
+
+## When to use it
+
+This is where host-level, cross-container orchestration logic lives:
+spawning/rebuilding/destroying agent containers, approving config
+changes, reconciling desired vs. actual container state, provisioning
+per-agent forge/matrix/gateway accounts, and serving the dashboard.
+If you're changing what the operator sees on the dashboard, how a
+container gets spawned or torn down, or anything in the approval flow,
+it's here. Agent-side behavior (the turn loop, MCP tools) lives in
+`hive-agent`/`hive-agent-mcp` instead — this daemon only talks to
+agents over the unix socket wire types in `hive-sh4re`.
+
+## Shape
+
+Cohesive clusters live in directory submodules; each child is
+re-exported at the crate root so `crate::broker::…`-style paths keep
+resolving unchanged regardless of which subdirectory a module actually
+lives in.
+
+- **`dashboard/`** — the axum operator dashboard: managed containers
+  (with deep-links to each container's own web UI), pending approvals
+  (unified diff vs. the applied repo + approve/deny), schedules,
+  questions, journal/build-log viewers, topology, webhook ingest.
+- **`job_queue/`** — generic job-DAG queue + desired-state
+  reconciliation, the host-side wrapper over the domain-agnostic
+  `hive_jobq` scheduler. Jobs are nodes in per-request DAGs
+  (`templates.rs`); special cases (graceful-stop watcher, deferred-start
+  follow-up, meta-update cascade, topology reparents) collapse into DAG
+  *shapes* over the shared node primitives (`model::NodeKind`). See
+  `docs/coordinator.md`.
+- **`lifecycle/`** — `nixos-container` lifecycle (spawn/kill/destroy/
+  rebuild/restart) + per-agent config flake generation.
+- **`stores/`** — sqlite-backed host-side stores: the broker
+  (`broker.rs`), approval / question / schedule queues, build logs,
+  audit trail, power intent, plus the shared connection open/migration
+  helper (`db.rs`).
+- **`workers/`** — background tasks and periodic sweeps: crash/login
+  watcher, scheduled-prompt delivery loop, boot-time auto-update
+  reconcile, the agent-sockets.json writer loop, the MCP socket
+  listener reconcile loop, knowledge-repo sync.
+- **`agent_config/`** — per-agent configuration registries (tool
+  groups, capabilities, resource limits, topology — all JSON under
+  `/var/lib/hyperhive/meta/`) plus the shared wire-protocol size
+  limits. Note the two similarly-named modules: `limits` caps inline
+  message-body sizes on the sockets, while `resource_limits` holds
+  per-agent CPU/memory caps for the container drop-in (`agentMemoryMax`
+  etc.).
+- **`stats/`** — metrics aggregation for the dashboard: hive-wide
+  turn-stats rollups, host-system probes/server warnings, live
+  per-container cgroup load, OTEL metric export.
+- **`socket_server/`** — the unix-socket request server, shared by the
+  per-agent sockets and the (pure-transport) manager socket. The socket
+  file's existence on disk authenticates the caller — connecting to
+  `<.../agents/foo/mcp.sock>` means you are `foo`. No privilege flag:
+  authority derives from the caller's identity (topology, capabilities,
+  tool-group membership), not a hardcoded name match.
+- **`forge/`** — optional Forgejo wiring: per-agent user + token
+  provisioning, config-repo mirroring, meta read-access grants, the CI
+  runner registration, PR auto-merge. No-op when `hive-forge` (the
+  container) isn't running. Full design: `docs/forge.md`.
+- **`coordinator.rs`** — top-level `Coordinator`/`HiveEnv`/`ServeConfig`
+  wiring that ties the above together for `serve`.
+- **`meta.rs`**, **`migrate.rs`** — the meta flake (agent config repos)
+  and schema/state migrations.
+- **`matrix.rs`**, **`gateway_nginx.rs`**, **`webhook_secret.rs`** —
+  matrix provisioning, gateway nginx vhost rendering, webhook secret
+  management.
+- **`priv_client.rs`** — client for the `hive-priv` privileged-helper
+  socket (the few root operations this unprivileged daemon delegates
+  out — see `docs/boundary.md`).
+
+`src/main.rs` is the `hive-c0re` binary entry point: `serve` (the
+daemon) plus the periodic vacuum/sweep loops. See the top-level
+`CLAUDE.md`/`docs/` index for the full reading-path map — this README
+is just the module tour.
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+# hive-forge
+
+Typed CLI wrapper around the in-cluster Forgejo's REST API. Replaces
+the prior bash script (`hive-forge-tools.nix`) so that agents and
+operators get the same error handling, exit codes, and JSON shapes
+regardless of how the bash mood was that day — this is the **only
+supported path** to the forge from inside an agent container; never
+`curl` it directly.
+
+Single binary, one verb subcommand per forge operation (issues, PRs,
+comments, labels, reviews, CI status, attachments, triage). Reads
+credentials from the environment: `HIVE_FORGE_URL` (base URL),
+`HIVE_FORGE_REPO` (default repo), `HYPERHIVE_STATE_DIR` (state dir —
+`forge-token` lives here). The global `-f/--forge <label>` flag
+retargets a dashboard-provisioned *external* forge account instead,
+reading `forge-<label>-token` + `forge-<label>.json` from the state
+dir rather than the internal-forge pair.
+
+## When to use it
+
+Reach for this crate when you're adding a new forge verb or changing
+how an existing one behaves — it's the single place issue/PR/comment/
+CI logic lives for every agent and `hivectl`. If you're instead adding
+a *tool* an agent's claude session calls, that's `hive-agent-mcp`
+wrapping a shellout to this binary, not new logic here.
+
+## Shape
+
+- **`verbs/`** — one module per subcommand, each exposing a clap-derived
+  `Args` struct and a `run(&Client, Args) -> Result<()>` fn. Splitting
+  one verb per module keeps each handler small and avoids the bash
+  script's monolithic `case` statement. Notable ones:
+  - **`lint.rs`** — `lint <subcommand>` triage queries (unassigned,
+    no-reviewer, stale-branches, assignments), always JSON-able via the
+    global `--json` flag.
+  - **`pr_status.rs`** — the merge-readiness verdict command
+    (`pr-status --pr <n>` / `--sha <commit>`); its exit code IS the
+    verdict, not just a report.
+  - **`comment.rs`** / **`comments.rs`** — post (refuses on unread
+    thread activity) / read (marks forge's own notification read as a
+    side effect) — see `notify.rs` for why that's safe to rely on.
+- **`client.rs`** — the app-level Forgejo client wrapper. Identity is
+  the per-agent token under `${HYPERHIVE_STATE_DIR}/forge-token`. REST
+  calls go through the typed `forgejo_api::sync::Forgejo` client
+  (`Client::api`); a minimal raw `reqwest` client remains for the few
+  *web-router* routes Forgejo doesn't serve under `/api/v1/`
+  (attachment downloads, Actions artifact/log routes).
+- **`notify.rs`** — the read-before-comment guard, backed by forge's
+  own notification read-state rather than a local mirror (which would
+  drift across container restarts). "Is there unread activity here?"
+  is just "does forge still have an unread notification for this
+  thread?" — forge is the single source of truth.
+- **`body.rs`** — body-input resolution shared by every verb that
+  posts a body: exactly one source between `--body`, `--body-file`,
+  and piped stdin (matches the old bash `resolve_body` helper);
+  passing both `--body` and `--body-file` is a clear error.
+
+Full verb reference (with worked examples): `docs/tools/forge.md`.
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+# hivectl
+
+The operator-facing host CLI for hyperhive. A thin client for the
+`hive-c0re` daemon: it speaks the host admin socket protocol
+(`hive-host-sock`) and does **not** link the daemon crate.
+
+Container lifecycle + the approval queue (`agents <spawn|kill|rebuild|
+restart|…>`, `approvals <pending|approve|deny>`, `stop`/`start`) and
+provisioning (`forge`/`matrix`/`github`/`gateway`) all forward to the
+daemon, which owns the broker, the credentials, and the provisioning
+logic — a running daemon is required for those verbs. A few verbs work
+off local host state directly instead, so they don't need the socket:
+`wg`/`peer-config` read the mesh key + TLS CA, and `choom` execs into a
+container.
+
+## When to use it
+
+Reach for this crate when you're adding a new operator-run host
+command, not an agent-run one — agents talk to the daemon over their
+own per-agent MCP tool surface (`hive-agent-mcp`), not this binary.
+`hivectl` is what a human operator (or a script on the host) runs.
+
+## Shape
+
+One module per subcommand family; `main.rs` is just the clap parse +
+top-level dispatch match.
+
+- **`cli.rs`** — the clap `Cli`/`Cmd` derive tree every other module's
+  `Args` hangs off of.
+- **`client.rs`** — the host admin socket client (`request`), split out
+  so it lives with `hivectl` rather than in the daemon crate.
+- **`agents.rs`** — `agents <spawn|kill|destroy|rebuild|restart|list|
+  set-parent|…>` — container lifecycle.
+- **`approvals.rs`** — `approvals <pending|approve|deny>` — the config/
+  init-config/meta-input approval queue.
+- **`dag_progress.rs`** — rebuild-queue progress rendering: everything
+  that polls the daemon's DAG queue (`HostRequest::QueueDag`) and
+  renders per-DAG / per-node progress (spinner or plain), split out
+  because `agents.rs` was already large.
+- **`power.rs`** — `restart`/`start`/`stop` at the container level.
+- **`choom.rs`** — `hivectl choom <agent>`: drop into an interactive
+  Claude session inside an agent container by exec-ing `machinectl
+  shell` running claude as the agent user, mirroring the harness's own
+  per-turn claude invocation.
+- **`forge.rs`**, **`matrix.rs`**, **`github.rs`**, **`gateway.rs`** —
+  per-agent account/token provisioning for each integration
+  (`forge create-user`, `matrix …`, `github set-token`, `gateway
+  create-user|delete-user|list-users`).
+- **`wg.rs`** — `wg`/`peer-config`: WireGuard mesh helpers — generate
+  this hive's key + the nix snippets to enable the mesh, add a peer,
+  print the block a peer pastes to federate with us, show the live
+  interface.
+- **`subvol.rs`** — `agents subvol`: btrfs state-subvolume ops (migrate
+  a plain-dir agent state root to a subvolume, snapshot create/delete/
+  send).
+- **`quota.rs`** — resource-quota reporting/enforcement helpers shared
+  across the above.
+- **`open.rs`** — `open <url>`: opens a hive URL (dashboard, agent UI)
+  in the operator's browser.
+- **`completions.rs`** — shell-completion generation
+  (`clap_complete`/`clap-markdown`).
+- **`util.rs`** — small shared helpers (formatting, table rendering)
+  used across subcommand modules.
+
+Full verb reference: `docs/tools/hivectl.md`.