matrix: mint the appservice sender token in the matrix container

A swarm runs one homeserver and a homeserver has one appservice sender
account, so "mint it once" is a property of the thing being minted
rather than something a lock has to enforce. That is what makes this
account the one to move first: no trigger route, no controller change
and no agent list — a boot-time oneshot beside tuwunel is the whole
mechanism.

`swarm-matrix-minter` runs inside `containers.hive-matrix`, which
already holds the appservice token: the rendered registration is bound
in read-only because that is how tuwunel is handed it. What the
container lacked was an identity of its own, so this adds one — a leaf
from the store's CA with a grant of exactly one path, not the hive's
leaf, which reads every secret in the store.

Both ends of the credential ship here. The minter reads the path it
publishes to before it touches the homeserver, and returning on a
non-empty read IS the "only once"; `hive-c0re`'s `ensure_hive_user`
reads the same path, authenticating with the hive name already in
`HYPERHIVE_HIVE_NAME`. The existing mint-then-`M_USER_IN_USE`-login
ladder stays as the fallback for a store that is empty, unconfigured or
unreachable, which is every swarm deployed before this — so nothing
needs backfilling and nothing breaks if the rest of the sequence never
lands.

The credential is not an admin credential, and is not named like one.
It is the access token of the appservice registration's own
`sender_localpart` — `@hive:<server_name>`, an account the homeserver
creates for itself when it loads the registration. The store path is
`swarm/services/matrix/sender-token`, the host path is
`matrix/access-token`, and the homeserver no longer runs an
`admin_execute` promotion for that account at boot. Everything the hive
provisions with it — the Space, the chat room, their hierarchy and join
rules, the invites — rides on being the creator of those rooms at power
level 100, not on homeserver admin; there is no Synapse admin API here
to need, tuwunel has none.

Two operations do need an admin *sender* and therefore stop working:
`hivectl matrix promote-user` and `hivectl matrix reset-password`, both
`!admin …` messages into `#admins:<server>`, plus the password-reset
recovery path that an agent with a lost password file falls back to.
They are swarm-level operations and are left failing loudly rather than
served by an over-privileged token every other call site would also
carry. The sweep's own admin-rights check and self-repair go with them:
an account that is deliberately not an admin has nothing to check.

`ephemeral = false` stays, and hive root can still read the container's
filesystem. Accepted: what this buys is identity separation — no hive
*process* holds or reads the appservice token — not physical isolation.

Refs #4345
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atlas 2026-09-20 13:42:17 +02:00 committed by mara
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@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ running (`services.hyperhive.deploy.matrix.enable = true`).
hivectl matrix create-user iris # provision (or re-provision) matrix account for agent `iris`
hivectl matrix create-user mara # create matrix account for a human; prints access_token to stdout
hivectl matrix create-user mara --password hunter2 # set a client-login password
hivectl matrix sync-admin # provision / refresh the hive internal admin account
hivectl matrix sync-admin # provision / refresh the hive's own `@hive:` account
hivectl matrix promote-user mara # promote an existing matrix user to homeserver admin
hivectl matrix reset-password iris # generate and set a new random password for `iris`; prints it
hivectl matrix invite mara # invite a user to the hive Space
@ -74,19 +74,21 @@ hivectl matrix invite @mara:server --room '#hive-chat:server' # ...or to a spec
- `create-user`: for agents, persists the `access_token` to
`<state>/matrix-token`. Skips registration when the file already
exists — delete it first to force re-registration.
- `sync-admin`: ensures the hive's internal admin matrix user exists
(used by `hive-c0re` for admin-room commands). Token persisted to the
admin token path. Safe to run again — idempotent.
- `sync-admin`: ensures the hive's own `@hive:` matrix user exists
(the account `hive-c0re` provisions rooms with). Token persisted to the
access token path. Safe to run again — idempotent.
- `promote-user`: promotes an already-registered user to homeserver
admin via the matrix admin API. Requires `sync-admin` to have run
first (needs a valid admin token).
- `reset-password`: calls the matrix admin API to set a new random
password and prints it to stdout. Useful if an agent or human lost
admin by an `!admin` command in `#admins`. ⚠️ Needs an admin **sender**,
which `@hive:` is not — this operation is being rehomed at swarm level
and does not work from the hive today.
- `reset-password`: asks the admin room to set a new random
password and prints it to stdout. ⚠️ Needs an admin **sender** too, so
it does not work from the hive today either. Useful if an agent or human lost
credentials.
- `invite`: invites a matrix user (full `@user:server` or a bare
localpart, qualified with the homeserver's `server_name`) to the hive
Space by default, or to a `--room` id / `#alias`. Uses the hive admin
token; the admin account must be a member of the target room with
Space by default, or to a `--room` id / `#alias`. Uses the `@hive:`
token; the account must be a member of the target room with
invite power (it owns the hive Space, so that case always works).
Idempotent — already-member / already-invited is a no-op.