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swarm-builder: build each agent config PR head and post a commit status

A new `swarm-builder` service, in its own container on the host that sets
`deploy.builder.enable` (defaulted on by `allSwarmServices` where the host
has the builder's store leaf, like the review classifier).

When an `agent-configs/<agent>` PR is opened, reopened or synchronized,
swarm-controller queues a `build_agent` jobq node. The node sets a
`swarm-builder` commit status to pending on the PR head, sends
`{agent, rev, pr}` to the builder over NATS request-reply
(`$SWARM.builder.build`), and writes success (store path), failure (last
line nix printed) or error (no builder / no reply) on the head. The node
fails when the build does, so the Jobs page matches the PR.

The builder builds nix/builder/check-flake's `check` with every input
overridden: hyperhive and nixpkgs to the host's own
`c0re.hyperhiveFlake`/`c0re.nixpkgsFlake` (what a hive there renders into
its meta flake), and the agent to the PR head on the forge. Evaluation is
pure and runs in the container; builds go to the host nix daemon as an
untrusted client. The private config repo is fetched with the token of a
new read-only `builder` forge account (in the `hives` team), which the
controller mints into `swarm/services/builder/forge/token`; git gets it
from a credential helper reading the child's environment, so it is in no
argument or URL.

Credentials: a `builder` store leaf minted by glue-bao-tls on the store
host, a `swarm-builder` reader policy (forge token + its own OIDC client
secret), an authelia machine client, and a `--builder-client` grant in the
queue's auth-callout responder. The controller gains a grant on the token
path and the secret publisher a deny on it.

This is the agent-config build check atlas scoped on #5081 (slice 3):
nothing is pushed to a cache, nothing is written to KV, and a red status
gates no deploy. The check composes agent-base + the config without the
values a hive adds (CA, docs, claude-code path, ports, input follows), so
it can disagree with a hive's own build.
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# Swarm builder
The swarm builder checks that an agent config PR builds before an operator
merges it. Each time an `agent-configs/<agent>` PR opens, reopens or gets a new
push, the builder builds the PR's head on the agent base, and the result shows as a
`swarm-builder` commit status on the PR and as a `build_agent` node on the
swarm UI's Jobs page.
Where it runs and how it's enabled: [`services.md`](services.md#builder).
## What happens on a config PR
1. The forge delivers the `pull_request` event on the `config-pr` webhook
swarm-controller already registers on `agent-configs`. An `opened`,
`reopened` or `synchronized` action on an open PR queues one `build_agent`
node carrying the agent, the head commit and the PR number. An edit, a
label or a close builds nothing.
2. The node sets the status to `pending`, then sends the build as a request on
the queue subject `$SWARM.builder.build` and waits up to 61 minutes for the
reply.
3. The builder runs `nix build` of `nix/builder/check-flake`'s `check` output
with every input overridden:
- `hyperhive` and `nixpkgs`: the sources the builder's own host was
deployed with, the same two a hive on that host renders into its meta
flake (`c0re.hyperhiveFlake`, `c0re.nixpkgsFlake`).
- `agent`: `git+https://<forge>/agent-configs/<agent>?ref=refs/pull/<pr>/head&rev=<head>`.
A build has one hour.
4. The reply is the system closure's store path, or the last lines `nix`
printed. The node writes the status on the head commit:
| Outcome | Status | Description | Node |
| ----------------------------------------- | --------- | --------------------------- | ------ |
| built | `success` | the store path | done |
| `nix` failed or timed out | `failure` | the last line `nix` printed | failed |
| no builder listening, or no reply in time | `error` | why | failed |
The full tail is in the failed node's error on the Jobs page and in the
builder's journal line for the build.
## What the check is, and isn't
- It composes the config the way a hive's meta flake does
(`agent-base.extendModules` with the config's `nixosModules.default`), minus
what a hive adds: its CA bundle, docs source, `claude-code` path, ports and
OTEL settings, and the `follows` that point the config's own inputs at the
hive's. A green check can therefore still fail on a hive, and the reverse.
- The agent base is the builder's host's, not the hive's. Hives on another
hyperhive or nixpkgs pin build something else.
- The builder pushes nothing and records nothing. The closure stays in the builder
host's store until it's collected, so on a host that also runs the hive, the
hive's own build can reuse whatever matches.
- It doesn't gate anything. A merge deploys whatever the status says.
- A lost webhook delivery isn't retried: the head isn't built until the next
push. The jobs graph is in memory, so a controller restart drops a build in
flight and leaves its status `pending`.
## Credentials
| What | Where | Who reads it |
| ----------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------- |
| store leaf | `deploy.bao.builderClient{Cert,Key}File` | nspawn, into the service as a credential |
| queue client secret | `secret/swarm/services/swarm-builder/oidc/client` | the builder, at start |
| forge token (read-only) | `secret/swarm/services/builder/forge/token` | the builder, on every build |
The token belongs to the `builder` forge account, which swarm-controller
creates, puts in the `hives` team of `agent-configs` (read on every config
repo) and mints a `read:repository` token for, in a five-minute pass. `git`
gets the token through a credential helper reading the child's environment:
it's in no argument, URL or lock, so no line `nix` prints can carry it into a
status. The builder holds no write credential; swarm-controller writes the
status with its own forge token. Details per path:
[`credentials.md`](credentials.md).
## Isolation
The container has its own network namespace on the bridge, as the CI runner
does, so a config's evaluation can't reach a host-loopback service. Evaluation
is pure and runs in the container. Builds go to the host's nix daemon as an
untrusted client: a config can set no daemon option, and its derivations build
in the host's sandbox. A fixed-output derivation still has the network, as it
does for any build on that host.

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| store path | minter | reader — pulls at runtime, holds in memory | automatic re-mint | automatic re-pull |
| ----------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `swarm/agents/<agent>/matrix/main` | `swarm-controller`, with the swarm's appservice token, at agent creation and in a five-minute pass | the agent container itself, under the certificate its hive passed in | ✅ the pass re-mints when the stored token is missing, unknown to the homeserver, or someone else's | ✅ `hive-matrix-daemon` exits when the homeserver rejects its token, and a five-minute timer restarts it, which reads the store again |
| `swarm/agents/<agent>/matrix/<account>` | `swarm-controller` | the agent container itself, under the certificate its hive passed in | must be stated | must be stated |
| `swarm/agents/<agent>/matrix-recovery/<account>` | `swarm-controller`, a random passphrase for every account listed under the agent's `matrix/`, in a five-minute pass | the agent container itself, under the certificate its hive passed in, when `hive-matrix-daemon` brings the account up | ❌ never replaced: the account's server-side key backup opens only with the passphrase it was enabled with, so the pass writes only to an empty path | ❌ read when the account comes up; an account whose passphrase lands later turns backup on at the next daemon start |
| `swarm/controller/swarm-controller/matrix/appservice-token` | `swarm-matrix-ctl`, inside the `hive-matrix` container, once | `swarm-controller`, under its own certificate | ❌ `swarm-matrix-ctl` mints it once; the container keeps its copy and republishes it when the store's differs | ✅ the controller reads it on every five-minute matrix pass |
| `swarm/controller/swarm-controller/oidc/client` | authelia, at its first boot; `swarm-secret-publish` copies it in | `swarm-controller`, under its own certificate, at start and on refusal | ❌ authelia mints it once. A re-mint is republished by `swarm-secret-publish`'s path unit | ✅ read at start and held in memory; read again when authelia refuses it, at most once per backoff of 5 s doubling to 5 min while the store holds the refused value |
| `swarm/controller/swarm-controller/forge/token` | the forge, inside the `hive-forge` container, once; `swarm-bao-forge-publisher` on the forge's host copies it in under its own certificate, with a write-only grant | `swarm-controller`, under its own certificate, at start | ❌ the forge mints it once and keeps its copy in the container; the publisher writes that copy each time the forge container starts and each time the mint writes the file | ❌ the controller reads it at start, and in the background with backoff until it first finds it; a replaced token reaches it with the next restart |
| `swarm/agents/<agent>/bao-mtls` | the store's agent PKI mount (`deploy.bao.agentPkiMountPath`), which generates the key, at `swarm-controller`'s request at agent creation | `hive-c0re`, under the hive's own certificate, when it writes the agent's container config; then `hive-agent-bao-identity` in the agent container, under the leaf it holds | ✅ `swarm-controller`'s five-minute pass re-issues a live agent's leaf once it's past half its validity (45 of 90 days, read from the certificate itself) | ✅ `hive-agent-bao-identity` re-reads it every 10 minutes and swaps a new leaf into `/run/hive-agent-bao-identity/`, which every store login in the container presents. It reads under the leaf it holds, so it renews only while that leaf is valid |
| `swarm/agents/<agent>/queue` | `swarm-controller`, at agent creation | `hive-agent` in the agent container, under the agent's own certificate, held in memory — the identity it presents to the swarm queue, naming that one agent rather than its hive; `swarm-logs` in the agent container, under the same certificate, on every query, as the bearer it presents at the log store; `swarm-nats-auth` and `swarm-logs-auth`, each under its own certificate, to check a presented secret | ✅ `swarm-controller`'s five-minute pass re-mints a live agent's secret once it's 45 days old by `minted_at` on the stored object; a secret with no `minted_at` gets one stamped, value unchanged. The pass skips agents declared `Destroyed` — declaring an agent destroyed deletes every version of the path instead, the undo of the mint rather than another one | ✅ `hive-agent` reads the path before its first connect and again on every reconnect attempt, so a reconnect after a re-mint presents the new secret. An open connection keeps the secret it connected with; after a revocation the agent keeps retrying under the queue client's backoff. `swarm-logs` reads it on every query and once more after a 401. `swarm-logs-auth` keeps granting a secret it verified for `deploy.victorialogs.authVerdictTtl` (60 s by default) without reading the path, so a replaced or deleted secret still works at the log store for up to that long |
| `swarm/agents/<agent>/forge-token` | `swarm-controller`, at agent creation and in a pass every 5 minutes over every agent with a store identity | the agent container itself, under its own certificate, fetched to `/run/hive-agent-forge-token/token` | ✅ the controller re-mints when the stored token is missing or no longer matches the forge (last eight characters and scopes) | ✅ the agent re-fetches on a 10-minute timer |
| `swarm/agents/<agent>/forge/<label>` | `swarm-controller`, when an operator links an external forge account in the swarm UI | `hive-agent-forge-accounts` in the agent container, under the agent's own certificate, into `<state>/forge-<label>-token` and `forge-<label>.json` | ❌ an operator's token; replaced only by deleting it and linking the label again | ✅ the agent re-fetches on a 2-minute timer |
| `swarm/agents/<agent>/github-token` | `swarm-controller`, when an operator links a GitHub account in the swarm UI | `hive-agent-github-token` in the agent container, under the agent's own certificate, into `<state>/github-token` | ❌ an operator's token; replaced only by deleting it and linking it again | ✅ the agent re-fetches on a 2-minute timer, and `hive-github-notify` re-reads the file on every poll |
| `swarm/hives/<hive>/matrix/sender-token` | `swarm-controller`, with the swarm's appservice token, for every hive in its directory in a five-minute pass | `swarm-controller` under its own certificate, before it decides whether to mint, and hive-c0re's `stored_sender_token()`, under the hive's own certificate | ✅ the controller's pass re-mints when the stored token is missing, unknown to the homeserver, or someone else's | ✅ hive-c0re's matrix sweep reads the store every run and overwrites its token file when the store's token differs |
| `swarm/hives/<hive>/forge/token` | `swarm-controller`, with the forge's admin API, for every hive in its directory in a five-minute pass | `swarm-controller` under its own certificate, before it decides whether to mint, and hive-c0re's `forge::reader_token()`, under the hive's own certificate | ✅ the controller's pass re-mints when the stored token is missing or no longer matches the forge (last eight characters and scopes) | ✅ hive-c0re reads the store on every forge read |
| `swarm/hives/<hive>/queue/agent` | authelia | `swarm-bao-queue-agent` on the hive's host, under its own per-hive certificate; no agent's policy reaches it | must be stated | must be stated |
| `swarm/hives/<hive>/oidc/client` | authelia, at its first boot; `swarm-secret-publish` copies it in | hive-c0re, under the hive's own certificate, when it first connects to the queue | ❌ authelia mints it once. A re-mint is republished by `swarm-secret-publish`'s path unit | ✅ read until the first connect succeeds, retried with a backoff of up to five minutes while it's missing; then held in memory and read again when authelia refuses it |
| `swarm/services/<clientId>/oidc/client` | authelia | that service's own reader, under its own certificate — the queue responder's under `swarm-nats-auth`'s, the homeserver's under `swarm-matrix-ctl`'s, the forge's under `swarm-forge-publisher`'s, the review classifier's under `swarm-review-classifier`'s; the bao UI's by the store's granter | must be stated | must be stated |
| `swarm/services/ci-runner/registration-token` | `swarm-controller`, from the forge's admin API, at start and in a five-minute pass; its grant on the path is write-only | `swarm-bao-ci-runner` on the runner's host, under the runner's own certificate, into a file only `swarm-ci-runner-register` in the runner's container loads; no other principal's policy reads it | ❌ the forge hands out one token until an admin resets it; the controller writes a reset token within five minutes | ✅ `swarm-bao-ci-runner` reads it at boot, on deploy and every ten minutes, and restarts the runner when the value changed |
| `swarm/services/review-classifier/anthropic-api-key` | the operator, by hand in the store's UI, field `api_key` | `swarm-review-classifier` in its container, under its own certificate, at the start of every run; held for that run and handed to `claude`'s environment only; no other principal's policy reads it | ❌ an operator's key; replaced by writing a new one | ✅ read on every run, so a written or removed key takes effect on the next run |
| `swarm/services/review-classifier/forge/token` | `swarm-controller`, with the forge's admin API, for its `review-classifier` account, at start and in a five-minute pass; the secret publisher's policy denies it | `swarm-controller` under its own certificate, before it decides whether to mint, and on every review it posts as the account; the classifier service's policy doesn't read it | ✅ the controller's pass re-mints when the stored token is missing or no longer matches the forge (last eight characters and scopes) | ✅ the controller reads the store on every review it posts |
| _(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 | must be stated |
| store path | minter | reader — pulls at runtime, holds in memory | automatic re-mint | automatic re-pull |
| ----------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `swarm/agents/<agent>/matrix/main` | `swarm-controller`, with the swarm's appservice token, at agent creation and in a five-minute pass | the agent container itself, under the certificate its hive passed in | ✅ the pass re-mints when the stored token is missing, unknown to the homeserver, or someone else's | ✅ `hive-matrix-daemon` exits when the homeserver rejects its token, and a five-minute timer restarts it, which reads the store again |
| `swarm/agents/<agent>/matrix/<account>` | `swarm-controller` | the agent container itself, under the certificate its hive passed in | must be stated | must be stated |
| `swarm/agents/<agent>/matrix-recovery/<account>` | `swarm-controller`, a random passphrase for every account listed under the agent's `matrix/`, in a five-minute pass | the agent container itself, under the certificate its hive passed in, when `hive-matrix-daemon` brings the account up | ❌ never replaced: the account's server-side key backup opens only with the passphrase it was enabled with, so the pass writes only to an empty path | ❌ read when the account comes up; an account whose passphrase lands later turns backup on at the next daemon start |
| `swarm/controller/swarm-controller/matrix/appservice-token` | `swarm-matrix-ctl`, inside the `hive-matrix` container, once | `swarm-controller`, under its own certificate | ❌ `swarm-matrix-ctl` mints it once; the container keeps its copy and republishes it when the store's differs | ✅ the controller reads it on every five-minute matrix pass |
| `swarm/controller/swarm-controller/oidc/client` | authelia, at its first boot; `swarm-secret-publish` copies it in | `swarm-controller`, under its own certificate, at start and on refusal | ❌ authelia mints it once. A re-mint is republished by `swarm-secret-publish`'s path unit | ✅ read at start and held in memory; read again when authelia refuses it, at most once per backoff of 5 s doubling to 5 min while the store holds the refused value |
| `swarm/controller/swarm-controller/forge/token` | the forge, inside the `hive-forge` container, once; `swarm-bao-forge-publisher` on the forge's host copies it in under its own certificate, with a write-only grant | `swarm-controller`, under its own certificate, at start | ❌ the forge mints it once and keeps its copy in the container; the publisher writes that copy each time the forge container starts and each time the mint writes the file | ❌ the controller reads it at start, and in the background with backoff until it first finds it; a replaced token reaches it with the next restart |
| `swarm/agents/<agent>/bao-mtls` | the store's agent PKI mount (`deploy.bao.agentPkiMountPath`), which generates the key, at `swarm-controller`'s request at agent creation | `hive-c0re`, under the hive's own certificate, when it writes the agent's container config; then `hive-agent-bao-identity` in the agent container, under the leaf it holds | ✅ `swarm-controller`'s five-minute pass re-issues a live agent's leaf once it's past half its validity (45 of 90 days, read from the certificate itself) | ✅ `hive-agent-bao-identity` re-reads it every 10 minutes and swaps a new leaf into `/run/hive-agent-bao-identity/`, which every store login in the container presents. It reads under the leaf it holds, so it renews only while that leaf is valid |
| `swarm/agents/<agent>/queue` | `swarm-controller`, at agent creation | `hive-agent` in the agent container, under the agent's own certificate, held in memory — the identity it presents to the swarm queue, naming that one agent rather than its hive; `swarm-logs` in the agent container, under the same certificate, on every query, as the bearer it presents at the log store; `swarm-nats-auth` and `swarm-logs-auth`, each under its own certificate, to check a presented secret | ✅ `swarm-controller`'s five-minute pass re-mints a live agent's secret once it's 45 days old by `minted_at` on the stored object; a secret with no `minted_at` gets one stamped, value unchanged. The pass skips agents declared `Destroyed` — declaring an agent destroyed deletes every version of the path instead, the undo of the mint rather than another one | ✅ `hive-agent` reads the path before its first connect and again on every reconnect attempt, so a reconnect after a re-mint presents the new secret. An open connection keeps the secret it connected with; after a revocation the agent keeps retrying under the queue client's backoff. `swarm-logs` reads it on every query and once more after a 401. `swarm-logs-auth` keeps granting a secret it verified for `deploy.victorialogs.authVerdictTtl` (60 s by default) without reading the path, so a replaced or deleted secret still works at the log store for up to that long |
| `swarm/agents/<agent>/forge-token` | `swarm-controller`, at agent creation and in a pass every 5 minutes over every agent with a store identity | the agent container itself, under its own certificate, fetched to `/run/hive-agent-forge-token/token` | ✅ the controller re-mints when the stored token is missing or no longer matches the forge (last eight characters and scopes) | ✅ the agent re-fetches on a 10-minute timer |
| `swarm/agents/<agent>/forge/<label>` | `swarm-controller`, when an operator links an external forge account in the swarm UI | `hive-agent-forge-accounts` in the agent container, under the agent's own certificate, into `<state>/forge-<label>-token` and `forge-<label>.json` | ❌ an operator's token; replaced only by deleting it and linking the label again | ✅ the agent re-fetches on a 2-minute timer |
| `swarm/agents/<agent>/github-token` | `swarm-controller`, when an operator links a GitHub account in the swarm UI | `hive-agent-github-token` in the agent container, under the agent's own certificate, into `<state>/github-token` | ❌ an operator's token; replaced only by deleting it and linking it again | ✅ the agent re-fetches on a 2-minute timer, and `hive-github-notify` re-reads the file on every poll |
| `swarm/hives/<hive>/matrix/sender-token` | `swarm-controller`, with the swarm's appservice token, for every hive in its directory in a five-minute pass | `swarm-controller` under its own certificate, before it decides whether to mint, and hive-c0re's `stored_sender_token()`, under the hive's own certificate | ✅ the controller's pass re-mints when the stored token is missing, unknown to the homeserver, or someone else's | ✅ hive-c0re's matrix sweep reads the store every run and overwrites its token file when the store's token differs |
| `swarm/hives/<hive>/forge/token` | `swarm-controller`, with the forge's admin API, for every hive in its directory in a five-minute pass | `swarm-controller` under its own certificate, before it decides whether to mint, and hive-c0re's `forge::reader_token()`, under the hive's own certificate | ✅ the controller's pass re-mints when the stored token is missing or no longer matches the forge (last eight characters and scopes) | ✅ hive-c0re reads the store on every forge read |
| `swarm/hives/<hive>/queue/agent` | authelia | `swarm-bao-queue-agent` on the hive's host, under its own per-hive certificate; no agent's policy reaches it | must be stated | must be stated |
| `swarm/hives/<hive>/oidc/client` | authelia, at its first boot; `swarm-secret-publish` copies it in | hive-c0re, under the hive's own certificate, when it first connects to the queue | ❌ authelia mints it once. A re-mint is republished by `swarm-secret-publish`'s path unit | ✅ read until the first connect succeeds, retried with a backoff of up to five minutes while it's missing; then held in memory and read again when authelia refuses it |
| `swarm/services/<clientId>/oidc/client` | authelia | that service's own reader, under its own certificate — the queue responder's under `swarm-nats-auth`'s, the homeserver's under `swarm-matrix-ctl`'s, the forge's under `swarm-forge-publisher`'s, the review classifier's under `swarm-review-classifier`'s; the bao UI's by the store's granter | must be stated | must be stated |
| `swarm/services/ci-runner/registration-token` | `swarm-controller`, from the forge's admin API, at start and in a five-minute pass; its grant on the path is write-only | `swarm-bao-ci-runner` on the runner's host, under the runner's own certificate, into a file only `swarm-ci-runner-register` in the runner's container loads; no other principal's policy reads it | ❌ the forge hands out one token until an admin resets it; the controller writes a reset token within five minutes | ✅ `swarm-bao-ci-runner` reads it at boot, on deploy and every ten minutes, and restarts the runner when the value changed |
| `swarm/services/review-classifier/anthropic-api-key` | the operator, by hand in the store's UI, field `api_key` | `swarm-review-classifier` in its container, under its own certificate, at the start of every run; held for that run and handed to `claude`'s environment only; no other principal's policy reads it | ❌ an operator's key; replaced by writing a new one | ✅ read on every run, so a written or removed key takes effect on the next run |
| `swarm/services/review-classifier/forge/token` | `swarm-controller`, with the forge's admin API, for its `review-classifier` account, at start and in a five-minute pass; the secret publisher's policy denies it | `swarm-controller` under its own certificate, before it decides whether to mint, and on every review it posts as the account; the classifier service's policy doesn't read it | ✅ the controller's pass re-mints when the stored token is missing or no longer matches the forge (last eight characters and scopes) | ✅ the controller reads the store on every review it posts |
| `swarm/services/builder/forge/token` | `swarm-controller`, with the forge's admin API, for its `builder` account (read on every config repo through the `hives` team), at start and in a five-minute pass; the secret publisher's policy denies it | `swarm-builder` in its container, under its own certificate, on every build; held for that build and handed to `git` through the environment only; `swarm-controller` under its own certificate, before it decides whether to mint | ✅ the controller's pass re-mints when the stored token is missing or no longer matches the forge (last eight characters and scopes) | ✅ the builder reads the store on every build |
| _(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 | must be stated |
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| `swarm-builder`, in its container | `builderClientCertFile` / `builderClientKeyFile` | `swarm/services/builder/forge/token` and `swarm/services/<builder client id>/oidc/client` |
# Swarm secrets: what exists, and where each one lives
A swarm generates its credentials in three different places and reads them
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### Per-principal identities
Bao matches a cert-auth role on the certificate's subject, so a certificate is an
identity and sharing one merges the identities. Each of these seven leaves has
identity and sharing one merges the identities. Each of these eight leaves has
a role and a policy of its own, and reaches one path, except the review
classifier's, the forge host's and Grafana's, which reach two each:
classifier's, the builder's, the forge host's and Grafana's, which reach two
each:
| unit | option pair under `deploy.bao.` | reads, or writes |
| --------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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and every hive runs its own reader. Its subject is
`<deploy.bao.queueAgentCommonNamePrefix>-<hive>`; `swarm.nix` reserves that
composed spelling as a hive name, so nobody can name a hive into another hive's
role. The other six reach a path that names a swarm service rather than a hive,
role. The other seven reach a path that names a swarm service rather than a hive,
so one role each is enough and their subjects are the flat
`deploy.bao.grafanaOidcCommonName`, `deploy.bao.otelOidcCommonName`,
`deploy.bao.forwarderOidcCommonName`, `deploy.bao.ciRunnerCommonName`,
`deploy.bao.reviewClassifierCommonName` and
`deploy.bao.reviewClassifierCommonName`, `deploy.bao.builderCommonName` and
`deploy.bao.forgePublisherCommonName`. The last is the only writer, and the one
leaf two units share: the forge's host holds one store identity for the token it
publishes and the OIDC client secret it reads.

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the container and the threat model are in
[`../scheduler/ci.md`](../scheduler/ci.md).
### Builder
The swarm builder, in a `swarm-builder` container on the host that sets
`deploy.builder.enable`. `allSwarmServices` defaults it on wherever the host
has the builder's store identity, on the same terms as the review classifier.
Set `deploy.builder.enable` directly to override either way.
When an `agent-configs/<agent>` PR opens, reopens or gets a new push,
swarm-controller queues a `build_agent` job. The builder builds that config at
the PR's head on the agent base its own host runs, through the
host's nix daemon, and swarm-controller writes the result as a `swarm-builder`
commit status on the head. The job shows on the swarm UI's Jobs page. A red
status blocks nothing: the merge still deploys.
It needs neither the forge nor a hive on its host. It reaches the queue, the
secret store and the forge by name, under its own `builder` leaf, and fetches
the private config repo with the read-only token of its own `builder` forge
account. On a host without the store, that leaf is the one file to copy, as
for the CI runner. What it builds and why are in [`builder.md`](builder.md).
### Review classifier
The review classifier's try-out service, in a `swarm-review-classifier`