remove the list_containers and request_update_meta_inputs MCP tools

Both agent-facing tools go away end to end, with no replacement. This is
an intentional capability removal: agents can no longer enumerate their
own subtree, and can no longer queue a meta-flake input bump.

The system prompt and docs/tools/lifecycle.md land in this same commit
on purpose. A tool named in the prompt but absent from the server makes
agents confidently call something that doesn't exist, and the failure
then surfaces far from its cause.

Removed:

- MCP registrations and bodies (hive-agent-mcp), plus the now-unused
  UpdateMetaInputsArgs.
- Wire variants Request::ListDescendants,
  Request::RequestUpdateMetaInputs and Response::Containers, plus
  ContainerInfo, whose only consumer was that response.
- hive-c0re's handle_list_descendants (its whole module) and
  handle_request_update_meta_inputs, the two dispatch arms, and the
  require_group(agent, "approvals", ...) gate on the meta-inputs verb.
- The stream_enrich emoji entry and argument formatter.
- docs/tools/lifecycle.md (both tools it documented are gone), its two
  referrers, the tool-group tables and the agent-hierarchy prose.

Tool groups are kept, deliberately. ToolGroup::Lifecycle listed exactly
one tool and now lists none — it is vestigial, but the variant stays so
existing meta/capabilities.json grants still parse; retiring it is a
separate decision. ToolGroup::Approvals also listed exactly one tool,
but the group is NOT dead: check_can_cancel_approval still gates
cancel_loose_end's approval-cancel arm on it server-side.

ApprovalKind::UpdateMetaInputs stays too. Nothing in production code
produces it any more, but pre-existing approval rows may still carry it,
and the operator's own path to a meta update is unaffected — the
dashboard's POST /api/meta-update inserts the meta_update job directly,
bypassing approvals entirely.

The two format_ack tests in hive-agent-mcp that named
request_update_meta_inputs were only using it as a label string while
exercising the generic OkWarn/Ok renderer, so they are retargeted to a
surviving tool rather than deleted.

Note hive-c0re's priv_client::list_containers is a different thing (the
host-side privileged container listing behind hive-priv) and is
untouched.

Closes #4591
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atlas 2026-09-20 19:36:09 +02:00 committed by mara
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@ -310,8 +310,8 @@ binary flavor.
| `meta` | `get_agent_meta` (`set_status` is always-on, see below) |
| `inbox` | `get_loose_ends`, `cancel_loose_end`, `remind` |
| `execution` | vestigial — `mcp__bash__run` / `mcp__bash__status` are always available unconditionally via `extraMcpServers`; this group's entries expand to non-existent `mcp__hyperhive__run` / `mcp__hyperhive__status` and have no effect. See `docs/tools/bash.md`. |
| `lifecycle` | `list_containers` *(privileged)* |
| `approvals` | `request_update_meta_inputs` *(privileged)* |
| `lifecycle` | none — `list_containers` no longer exists, with no replacement; the variant survives only so existing grants parse. |
| `approvals` | none — `request_update_meta_inputs` no longer exists, with no replacement. Still a live server-side gate: `cancel_loose_end`'s approval-cancel arm requires it. |
| `scheduling` | `request_schedule_prompt`, `fire_schedule_now`, `cancel_schedule`, `edit_schedule`, `list_schedules` *(privileged)* |
| `forge` | `create_repo` — create git repos through hive-c0re (operator-gated merge) |
| `web_tools` | none (gates the Claude built-ins `WebFetch`/`WebSearch`, not an MCP tool) |
@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ bypass the operator approval gate.
`hive-sh4re/src/permissions.rs` + an arm to `as_str`. Add it to `Capability::ALL`
(the source of truth for the permissions UI columns). Implement the access
check in the relevant handler (`hive-c0re/src/socket_server/mod.rs`,
`hive-c0re/src/socket_server/lifecycle_handlers.rs`, `coordinator.rs`, or a
`hive-c0re/src/socket_server/schedules.rs`, `coordinator.rs`, or a
handler under `hive-c0re/src/dashboard/`).
## Async forms