A hive whose CA predates the swarm root keeps a self-signed CA, and
nothing re-roots it. That is what makes the hierarchy non-disruptive,
and it also means the O(1)-trust payoff never arrives for that hive.
Adoption now happens by itself where this host owns the root, and
nowhere else. The split is the whole design: adoption invalidates an
anchor consumers already trust, and they refresh on their own schedule —
on one box that schedule is knowable, across hosts it is not. So the
all-local case migrates itself and every other case gets a failure that
names both files, gives the two-command recipe, says why it is not
automatic, and offers the marker as a deliberate opt-out.
The previous CA rides in the trust bundle afterwards. Consumers read the
bundle rather than ca.pem, so adoption is additive before it is
subtractive; agents pick up new trust only when their container
restarts, which is a window even on a single host. Dropping the old
anchor stays a separate, deliberate step.
`docs/swarm.md` becomes `docs/swarm/README.md` and the shared-services
material moves to `docs/swarm/services.md`, following the shape
`docs/turn-loop/` and `docs/web-ui/` already use. The README keeps a
pointer so the reading path is unbroken.
Every referrer moved with it — five docs pages, two option descriptions
in swarm.nix, and CLAUDE.md's reading path. A pointer to a file that
moved is worse than one to a file that was deleted: the content still
exists, so the reader concludes the note is wrong rather than the path.
Both the option description and docs/swarm.md listed the forge among the
services whose `enable` defaults from `swarm.enableRequiredServices`.
It has no `enable`: it is the canonical store for the meta flake and
every agent's config repo, so it deploys with hyperhive itself.
The distinction is worth stating rather than deleting — a reader who
sees matrix and authelia listed and the forge absent would reasonably
wonder whether the forge is per-hive. It isn't; it's mandatory.
Matrix is a swarm-wide service — one homeserver, not one per hive — so
its `enable` defaults from `swarm.enableRequiredServices` rather than
being flipped on its own. That toggle is off by default, so matrix is
off by default exactly as before; what changes is that a host declaring
"the swarm's services live here" gets the homeserver with it.
The forge needs no equivalent: it is mandatory and deploys with
hyperhive itself, so it has no enable to derive.
One SSO provider per swarm, and a hive is a client of it by default:
`url` exists everywhere so a hive knows where to send people, while the
container only exists where `swarm.enableRequiredServices` says the
swarm's shared services live.
Operator and agents are both subjects of the same provider,
differentiated by roles/claims rather than by mechanism. The users store
is therefore written by swarm-controller rather than maintained by hand
— agents are created and destroyed continuously, so the subject set is
dynamic. This module only guarantees the file exists and parses, so
authelia starts with nobody in it instead of failing to start; a
placeholder account would be a credential nobody meant to create.
Small-deployment defaults, with scope as the justification rather than
preference: file users backend, local sqlite storage (redis buys shared
session state across replicas and there is one instance), filesystem
notifier (SMTP mails humans; provisioning is programmatic).
Secrets are generated in-container on first boot, sharing the authelia
unit's user/group/StateDirectory so systemd creates the directory owned
by the account that reads them. Nothing outside the container reads
these keys, which is what makes that right rather than merely easier —
hive-matrix generates its token host-side only because hive-c0re has to
read that one.
Per-service integration (authelia's auth_request in front of the
gateway's existing auth_basic locations) is deliberately not here:
standing an SSO provider up is reversible, cutting every operator-facing
vhost over to it is not.
`services.hyperhive.enableAllLocalDefaults` is the single "everything
runs on this box" toggle, and the autoconfigurable settings default from
it: `swarm.enableRequiredServices` (new — the swarm's shared services
run here) and `swarm.ca.autoConfigure` (previously an explicit false).
Off by default, unchanged from before: a host cannot tell whether it is
the one meant to hold the swarm's services or its CA, so this stays an
operator saying "this is that box". What it replaces is one toggle per
service for the deployment where the answer is "all of them".
Each derived toggle can still be set on its own, so "all local except X"
needs no further option.
A swarm's services and its hives can live on different hosts, and a host
has no way to tell whether it is the one holding the root — so setting
the swarm CA up is an operator action, not something a host infers.
`swarm.ca.autoConfigure` is off by default and is the only thing that
issues a hive sub-CA, which is also the only case that *can*: signing
one needs the root's private key, and that key is deliberately not on a
hive host otherwise.
With the flag off, a hive self-signs its CA exactly as it always has.
That keeps a plain hive working out of the box; what it gives up is
membership of a swarm's trust hierarchy, which is the right thing to
give up for a hive nobody has federated.
Replaces a default derived from `swarm.peers == { }`. That read "no
peers declared" as "everything is local", which is not the same claim —
a hive can belong to a swarm it has not declared yet, or to one whose
services run elsewhere entirely.
Cross-hive trust was O(n²) hand-pinning: every hive had to name every
peer's CA. A swarm root makes it O(1) — trust the root once and every
present and future peer validates.
The root is generated by a new `swarm-ca` unit on a single-host swarm
and operator-provided otherwise; `swarm.ca.autoConfigure` picks between
them and derives its default from `swarm.peers` being empty, so "all on
one host" is read off the deployment rather than remembered. Both modes
produce the same artifacts in the same places, so splitting hosts later
is moving the service dirs, not switching code paths. The root key never
enters the nix store, and the root is never regenerated automatically —
replacing it invalidates every peer at once.
Each hive CA carries `nameConstraints` pinned to that hive's domain, so
a leaked hive CA can only mint names inside its own subdomain, enforced
by verifiers rather than by convention.
`ca.pem` was serving as both the issuer and the anchor consumers trust;
those are the same file only while it is self-signed. openssl will not
terminate a chain at a trusted cert that isn't self-signed (rustls and
Go will), so the promotion would have broken some consumers and not
others. `hive-tls-ca` now also writes `trust-bundle.pem` — the hive CA
plus whatever it is rooted at — and every anchor consumer reads that:
agents, the CI and forge containers, and the peer-config recipe. On a
hive with no swarm root the bundle is just that CA, so nothing consuming
it needs a mode to branch on.
Neither has a fallback worth having: a guessed swarm domain is a wrong
hostname that evaluates cleanly and deploys, which is worse than an
eval failure naming the one line an operator has to write. Upgrading
past this sets both, once.
Requiring them also makes the hive domain fully derived rather than
merely derivable — `<hiveName>.<swarm.domain>` now always resolves, so
an operator writes the swarm's address and this hive's label and never
writes the hive domain at all.
`hiveName` stops being display-only in the process: it is the leftmost
label of the domain the hive is addressed by, which the option text and
docs now say.
Each of the three required options asserts separately, so a missing one
names itself. A missing `swarm.domain` legitimately fails two of them —
its own, and `domain`, which can no longer derive — and nix reports all
failing assertions together, so the operator sees the whole set rather
than one at a time.
The required-domain assertion in hive-network.nix could not be reached:
`forge.<domain>` and `matrix.<domain>` are evaluated while the
assertion list is, so an unset domain threw `cannot coerce null to a
string` naming one of those options instead of printing the message
that says which option to set.
Both defaults now fall back to a name under the reserved `.invalid`
TLD, which the assertion refuses to let out the door.
Every hive in a swarm occupies its own sub-domain of the swarm's, so
the hive domain is derivable rather than something each hive restates.
`services.hyperhive.swarm.domain` is new and nullable; the hive's own
`domain` keeps its existing required-ness and its existing assertion,
and gains a default of `<hiveName>.<swarm.domain>`.
Deliberately a default and not a rename: an alias would reinterpret the
domains hives have already deployed, while a default only fills in the
ones that never set one. Same reason there is no new assertion — the
existing message just names the derivation, so this adds a way to stop
failing rather than a way to fail.
services.hyperhive.swarm.controller.{enable,package,socketPath} plus the
unprivileged swarm-controller user, its runtime and state directories,
and the unit itself.
enable is deliberately not derived from services.hyperhive.enable, unlike
c0re: a swarm has one controller, so turning it on is a statement about
swarm topology rather than about whether hyperhive is installed.
The socket gets its own RuntimeDirectory. nginx reaches a unix upstream
by having the socket's directory bind-mounted into the gateway
container, and the socket is 0666 because connect needs write -- so the
directory is the only access control there is. Sharing one with the host
admin socket would hand that socket to the gateway too. The constraint
is stated at both ends, in the option description and beside the bind,
because it is invisible from either site alone; a test pins the path so
a tidying edit fails rather than reviews cleanly.
RuntimeDirectoryPreserve and the daemon's stale-socket unlink are a
pair: preserving the directory without the unlink means bind fails with
EADDRINUSE after a restart.
Second slice of the swarm-global service consolidation, same shape as
the forge move: the operator-facing host options become
services.hyperhive.swarm.matrix.*, and one mkRenamedOptionModule on the
namespace carries the whole subtree (nested gui.* included), so there is
no leaf list to forget an entry from.
The rename lives in hive-matrix.nix, the module that declares the
options, so each service's migration stays independent of its siblings.
The per-agent hyperhive.matrix.{enable,url} and hyperhive.matrixAccounts
are a different namespace -- a client pointer at the service, not the
service -- and deliberately do not move.
services.hyperhive.swarmName becomes services.hyperhive.swarm.name, with
one mkRenamedOptionModule in hyperhive.nix -- the module that declares
it, same convention as the forge and matrix renames, so each migration
stays independent of its siblings.
hiveName deliberately stays where it is. It names this hive; swarm.name
names the group the hive belongs to, and that they now sit one level
apart is the distinction rather than an inconsistency.
The per-agent hyperhive.swarmName is an internal mirror rendered from
the host value and does not move, same split as forge and matrix.
mara: "remove the extra deprecatios file, less comments". The alias now
sits in hive-forge/default.nix next to the options it renames, and the
comment is three lines instead of eighteen.
Better than tidier: there is no shared file for the sibling migrations
to queue behind. Matrix's rename goes in hive-matrix.nix, authelia's in
its own module, and none of them touch each other. hive-ci.nix declares
swarm.forge.ci.* from a different module and stays covered, because the
rename is on the namespace rather than on the declaring file.
Re-ran the check both ways this time, per argus on the last round: old
paths set and new paths read back 3999 / 7, and a config that only uses
the new paths produces no warnings at all.
mara on the PR: "why deprecate individual keys instead of the whole
attrset? there is no hyperhive.forge anymore after the move". Right, and
mkRenamedOptionModule takes the namespace path directly - the subtree
comes with it, nested ci.* included.
Fifteen explicit renames collapse to one. The list was also a
liability: an option added under swarm.forge later would have needed
remembering here to get an alias, so it could silently fall behind the
options it mirrors.
Re-ran both evals against the new form. Values still map (httpPort 3999,
ci.concurrency 7 through the old paths) and the warning still fires; it
now names the attrset rather than the leaf, which also means one warning
per hive instead of one per option an operator had set.
Forgejo is a swarm-global service, so its operator-facing host options
move to services.hyperhive.swarm.forge (and .swarm.forge.ci) as the
first of the namespace consolidation.
Existing hive configs keep evaluating: swarm-renames.nix maps every
moved leaf with mkRenamedOptionModule, which also emits a deprecation
warning naming both the old and new path, so an operator is told what to
rename rather than discovering it from a failed eval.
The per-agent hyperhive.forge.url does NOT move. It is a client pointer
at whatever forge an agent talks to - it shares a word with the service
and nothing else, and the two are already documented as separate option
surfaces.
Verified by evaluating the host module, since no Rust gate evaluates
nix: setting the old paths and reading the new ones yields the values
(httpPort 3999, ci.concurrency 7), and config.warnings carries the
rename notice.
/run/hive-agent/<name> was 0777 root root in steady state, not just during
first spawn. A directory without the sticky bit lets any user unlink files
in it, and the gateway container has all of /run/hive-agent bind-mounted
in, so anything that could reach the path could delete an agent's
agent.sock, bind its own, and receive that agent's todos from hive-c0re.
Two mechanisms were writing the dir and undoing each other: the tmpfiles.d
entry wrote 0777 root root, then hive-c0re round-tripped through hive-priv's
ChownSocketDir to narrow it. `d` re-asserts mode and owner on every apply
and the file is regenerated on any agent's spawn or destroy, so every such
event reset every agent's dir back to world-writable.
SyncAgentTmpfiles now carries each agent's container uid/gid and the entry
declares the answer: 0751 <uid> <gid>. Three principals need the dir and no
two share a group -- the harness binds its sockets (owner rwx), hive-c0re
dials agent.sock and the gateway's nginx dials web.sock (both only need
traverse, and both sockets are already 0666).
Deletes ChownSocketDir and ChmodSocketDir, both priv_client wrappers, the
either/or in host_config with its two swallowed warn!s, and the now-dead
socket_dir_path -- two verbs off the privileged helper's surface and one
round-trip off every agent spawn.
Also makes the two tmpfiles rules for /run/hive-agent itself agree: the
gateway module said hive-core, the generated file said root, and which won
depended on the order systemd read them in.
Nix half of the 4th layer mara found (47535: core cannot assume matrix
is on localhost). Rust half (matrix.rs MATRIX_HTTP) NOT done.
Parked here rather than left dirty: she has redirected me to jobq as
prio 1, and uncommitted files migrate across a checkout.
Third and last of #2860's agent-facing URL fallbacks. The operator's
ruling was "any special casing is done on the nix side - same binaries,
no hard coded fallback", so the default is deleted rather than replaced.
Every layer guessed the same wrong thing, and each guess was only ever
correct for a process sharing the host netns:
- nix/agent-modules/matrix.nix: matrixUrlDefault = localhost:8008, both
as the option's default and as a sentinel the daemon unit compared
against to decide whether to write HIVE_MATRIX_URL. Now nullOr str,
default null, the guard is != null, and the doc says what forge.url's
already says: null means "no matrix", not "guess one".
- nix/host-modules/hive-c0re/environment.nix: forwarded
http://127.0.0.1:<port> when no gatewayHost was set. hive-c0re shares
the host netns so it reads as harmless, but the value is handed to
agents, which do not -- there it names the agent itself. Now forwarded
only when there is a gateway vhost to name, matching the guard
HIVE_MATRIX_PUBLIC_URL already uses twelve lines below.
- hive-matrix-mcp: paths::DEFAULT_HOMESERVER was the same address
compiled in, so dropping the nix defaults alone would have left the
daemon dialling loopback inside the agent's own netns -- the very bug,
one layer down. homeserver_url() is now Option, and an account with no
homeserver is skipped with a log, exactly as one with no token is.
discover_token_accounts already refused to guess for the same reason.
Two comments taught the assumption back to the next reader ("shared host
netns means every agent container resolves localhost to the same
machine"); both now say which side of the netns boundary they describe.
MATRIX_HTTP keeps its value -- hive-c0re really does share the host
netns -- but no longer claims agents do.
Gated with nix eval against the extended agent-base config, as a pair:
with no url set the daemon unit carries no HIVE_MATRIX_URL, and with one
set it carries exactly that. Either check alone passes on a broken guard.
Adds services.hyperhive.forge.publicUrl (defaults to the gateway vhost
URL when behindGateway=true, null otherwise). HIVE_FORGE_PUBLIC_URL is
now sourced from it instead of hardcoding https://${forge.domain}
whenever behindGateway is on.
The 4 frontend call sites that built a forge link from
state.forge_public_url now hide the link when that's absent, rather
than guessing http://<browser-hostname>:3000 — a guess that's only
correct by accident once the operator isn't on plain localhost. Fixes
the dashboard H0M3 tile, per-agent-row forge links + agent menu, the
approval-queue PR link, and the per-agent page's own meta-nav forge
link (found during this pass, same defect, not in the original
3-site inventory).
Docs + doc-comments updated to match.
services.hyperhive.c0re.swaggerUiTheme -> services.hyperhive.gateway.swaggerUiTheme.
hive-c0re has no relationship to this option (it's consumed entirely
by the gateway's nginx config) since the previous two commits moved
the theme files out of hive-c0re/ and gateway to hosting the whole
dist itself — the option shouldn't live in c0re's namespace either.
Pure option move: default wiring in flake.nix now sets
services.hyperhive.gateway.swaggerUiTheme instead of the c0re one;
hive-gateway/default.nix reads it via the module's own already-bound
cfg (services.hyperhive.gateway) instead of reaching into c0re's.
Verified: nix build .#swagger-ui-theme unaffected (same store path,
pure option-plumbing change, no content change); a full nixosSystem
eval of nixosModules.default resolves the option at its new path and
confirms the gateway's /api/docs/ location still aliases the correct
store path.
Extends the theme-only alias into the full shape mara asked for on the
PR thread:
1. nix/packages/swagger-ui-dist.nix — plain vendored Swagger UI 5.17.14
dist, sourced directly from the swagger-ui-dist npm package (same
release the Rust utoipa-swagger-ui-vendored crate ships, verified
via matching gitHead commit) rather than through Cargo.lock/cargo.
2. nix/packages/swagger-ui-theme.nix — overlays our 3 override files
(index.html, hyperhive-theme.css, and now swagger-initializer.js)
onto (1).
3. vhosts.nix's swaggerUiLocations now prefix-matches the whole
/api/docs/ tree (not just 2 exact-match files) straight from (2),
plus a `= /api/docs` redirect shim since hive-c0re's own redirect
is going away too. /api/openapi.json (outside this prefix) keeps
proxying to c0re unchanged — that's the one thing that stays
dynamic.
New file swagger-initializer.js needed hand-verification: the plain
vendored copy hardcodes the swagger.io petstore demo URL.
utoipa-swagger-ui normally rewrites it per-request from a {{config}}
placeholder its own build.rs injects — since hive-c0re won't be
serving this file at all once its SwaggerUi mount is removed, that
rewrite has to be baked in statically here instead. Derived by
actually running build.rs's own two transforms (strip the default
layout: line, splice the Config JSON in place of the url/deepLinking
block) against the real vendored file, not typed from scratch —
verified byte-for-byte against what format_config() would produce for
hive-c0re's actual single-URL config, and checked with node --check.
Coordinated with damocles: he's taking the corresponding hive-c0re
side (drop the utoipa-swagger-ui dependency + SwaggerUi::new(...)
mount, keep only the plain /api/openapi.json route) once this lands.
Verified: nix fmt clean; nix build .#swagger-ui-theme succeeds, output
byte-matches the checked-in override files and node --check passes on
swagger-initializer.js; a full nixosSystem eval of nixosModules.default
resolves both new locations (/api/docs/ aliased to the right store
path, = /api/docs redirecting) with auth threaded through.
The push side modelled a store per peer hive: a --peer argument, a
swarm.peers.<domain>.snapshotStorePort option, and a swarm_peers module
whose entire job was answering "which peer". A swarm has exactly one
store, so none of that had anything to select between.
The receiver already proved it. It keys destination directories by
agent, not by sending hive, precisely so an agent that migrates keeps
one unbroken incremental chain -- which only makes sense if every hive
pushes to the same place. Per-hive stores would split the chain in two,
the case that keying exists to prevent.
So the destination moves to services.hyperhive.swarm.snapshotStore,
rendered into HYPERHIVE_SNAPSHOT_STORE, and swarm_peers is deleted
rather than adapted. address has no default because it is a
deployment fact this host cannot derive; port defaults because it is a
convention both ends read from the same option docs. An unset or empty
address fails naming the option instead of connecting somewhere
arbitrary, and a test asserts the message suggests no value.
Adds the caller the fd-passing machinery existed for: hivectl agent
<name> subvol snapshot push --peer <hive> resolves the peer, connects
to its snapshot store, writes the agent header, and hands the connected
socket to hive-priv, which runs btrfs send straight into it.
The split keeps the root helper ignorant. Everything that involves
knowing where a peer is, what the wire protocol looks like, and which
hive to trust happens in the unprivileged daemon; hive-priv only ever
receives an already-open descriptor. Once btrfs send starts, neither
process is in the data path, so a multi-gigabyte transfer costs no
per-byte work and survives a hive-c0re restart.
call_with_fd takes the descriptor by value and closes it as soon as the
kernel has it. A socket stays open until every copy closes, so holding
one back would leave the receiver waiting for an EOF that never comes:
btrfs receive blocks and this side reports success for a transfer the
peer never committed. Ownership makes that unrepresentable.
The peer's store port is a new swarm.peers.<domain>.snapshotStorePort
option rather than a constant matching the module default. A pushing
hive cannot read the receiver's configuration, so assuming 51821 would
push at a port nobody promised to listen on; absent, the push fails
naming the option. swarm_peers parses the mesh address the host module
has always rendered into HYPERHIVE_PEERS but nothing read.
Reverting the namespace move from the previous commit — mara's reason
is better than mine was.
I grouped it with swarm.peers and swarm.wireguard because the module
serves the swarm tier. But those two describe THE SWARM: who is in it,
how it is meshed. snapshotStore describes THIS HOST'S ROLE. On a
standalone store box the operator enables one service, and nesting it
under `swarm` implies they are configuring a swarm when they are not.
The swarm- prefix on the file and units stands: the name says which
tier the component serves, the option path says what you are turning
on. Those are different questions and they are allowed different
answers.
mara, in preparation for the swarm tier: the store is a swarm-level
role, not a hive one, so hive- was misleading about which tier it
belongs to. Module, units, syslog identifier, log lines and docs all
move to swarm-snapshot-store.
Also moved the option under services.hyperhive.swarm.snapshotStore, to
sit with swarm.peers and swarm.wireguard rather than dangling off the
top level. That is a judgement call beyond the literal rename — flagged
on the PR, and cheap precisely now: the option has never shipped, so
there is no deployment to migrate, whereas doing it after a release
would be a breaking change for no new benefit.
mara asked, and the file had already stopped being one thing: after
the gate moved off c0re.enable, swarm.nix held two concerns with
different audiences and different gates.
swarm.nix now declares WHO the peers are — data hive-c0re serialises
into HYPERHIVE_PEERS and the dashboard renders. Declaration only, no
config block.
swarm-wireguard.nix owns the mesh: assertions, the wg-hive interface,
the firewall port. That is plain host networking, and a machine which
runs no hive at all — the snapshot store — still needs it. Under the
old layout a reader could not tell which half of swarm.nix applied to
a non-hive host.
The two stay coupled by data, not by structure: the per-peer
wireguard* fields stay on the peer submodule, because that is where a
peer is described, and the mesh module reads them.
No behaviour change — same options, same gate, same rendered config.
mara: the option was the wrong shape for the concern. "this host runs
nothing else" is a deployment expectation, not something a module
should assert about its own host — and asserting it made co-location
look like a config toggle rather than what it is.
Replaced with docs/snapshot-store.md, which the module had no docs
page at all before: enabling it, why the mesh is the authentication
(cryptokey routing already binds source address to pubkey, so certs
would authenticate the same fact twice and add an expiry), why the
destination is keyed per agent (a per-hive prefix splits an agent's
chain the first time it migrates), what the sender may and may not
choose, why the firewall rule is interface-scoped, what a snapshot
does and does not contain, and what the pull side still needs.
The dedicated-host expectation is stated there as an operational
assumption with its own failure mode — true on day one, quietly false
the day someone notices the box has spare disk — rather than as an
assertion someone flips to false to make the build proceed.
Linked from CLAUDE.md's reading paths.
argus caught it: binding the socket to the mesh address does not open
the port. NixOS's firewall is default-deny and filters in netfilter,
before a packet reaches a bound socket — the bind chooses which
address accepts connections, not whether packets arrive. As shipped
the receiver was unreachable.
swarm.nix already shows the pattern for exactly this situation: it
opens the mesh's UDP port explicitly right after bringing the
interface up.
Interface-scoped to wg-hive rather than host-wide, so the option's
"reachable exactly by mesh peers" claim is actually true. A global
allowedTCPPorts would open the port on every interface including the
public NIC, leaving only the socket's bind address between the
internet and a root btrfs receive.
P1 of the storage backend: hives push agent snapshots over the
WireGuard mesh that swarm.nix already brings up. No controller
dependency — a btrfs subvolume tree, a socket-activated receiver, and
the existing mesh.
The mesh is the authentication. Cryptokey routing already binds a
peer's source address to its public key (allowedIPs = [
peer.wireguardAddress ]), so the store adds no key material and no
certs; anything else would authenticate the same fact twice.
Destination is keyed per AGENT, not per hive: after a migration the
same agent's next incremental send arrives from a different hive, and
a per-hive prefix would split its snapshot chain and break the
incremental parent lookup — the exact case this store exists to serve.
The sender unavoidably contributes the agent name (a btrfs stream
carries no such notion, and the subvolume name inside it is the
sender's). So the receiver owns the destination root and VALIDATES the
sender-supplied leaf against a whitelist charset — no slash, no dot,
so neither traversal nor an absolute path can survive it.
ListenStream binds this host's mesh address, never a wildcard, and
that is asserted rather than commented: bound to 0.0.0.0 the socket
would be an unauthenticated remote write into agent state.
swarm.nix: the mesh config moves off the c0re.enable gate onto
swarm.wireguard.enable. The mesh is host networking, not a c0re
feature — a swarm host that runs no hive (this store) previously got
no wg-hive interface at all. Nothing in that block was c0re-specific;
the peer data c0re consumes is rendered in hive-c0re and stays gated
there.
Confinement is deliberately not in the module: it is a property of the
deployment (a dedicated VM, or a container in the all-local case). The
systemd hardening is defence in depth only — btrfs receive needs
CAP_SYS_ADMIN, which can mount() its way out of the namespace those
directives set up. The `dedicated` option turns "this host runs
nothing else" into an assertion the build checks instead of an
assumption the deployer remembers.
`builtins.toJSON` already serialises a derivation as its out path and
`null` as `null`, so the `if … then null else "${…}"` binding was doing
by hand what the serialiser does anyway. Hand the package in whole and
drop the intermediate.
The gc-root property is unchanged and re-measured on the real module:
`environment.etc."hyperhive/serve.json".text` still `hasContext`, so the
host system closure still holds the package alive. Verified both ways —
with the package set the rendered JSON is byte-identical to the
interpolated version, and unset still emits `null` — with all module
assertions passing in each case.
The assertion now checks `builtins.toJSON cfg.claudeCodePackage`, which
is the value that actually has to carry the context, rather than an
intermediate that no longer exists.
mara on PR #2769: "make the default null instead of special casing """.
`claude_code_path` was a `String` whose empty value meant "no host-level
pin". That is a sentinel doing an `Option`'s job — the same shape argus
and mara already rejected on #2755's weights, and the same
empty-field cruft mara called out on #2756.
So it is `Option<String>` end to end:
- host module: `claudeCodePath` evaluates to `null` when
`claudeCodePackage` is unset, so `serve.json` carries JSON `null`
rather than `""`.
- `Coordinator` + `HiveEnv`: `Option<String>`, defaulting to `None`.
- `render_flake`/`render_flake_with_lookup`: `Option<&str>`, and the
emission is an `if let Some(path)` instead of an `is_empty()` guard.
- agent module: `hyperhive.claudeCodePath` is `nullOr str`, default
`null`.
Behaviour is unchanged in both directions; only the way "unset" is
spelled moves. The `builtins.hasContext` assertion still guards the
pinned case (short-circuited by the null check, so an unpinned hive
never evaluates it).
16/16 `meta::` tests, clippy clean, `nix fmt` no-op, `nix build .#docs`
green.
Agents run whatever `claude-code` the meta flake's `nixpkgs` resolves
to, and that is normally a release channel. This one package moves fast
enough that stable trails unstable by weeks — 26.05 is on 2.1.187 while
unstable carries 2.1.220 — and an agent cannot fix it for itself: it
only ever sees the single nixpkgs hive-c0re injects, so an `agent.nix`
has no other tree to reach for.
New host option `services.hyperhive.c0re.claudeCodePackage` takes the
package directly and rides the existing `hyperhiveDocs` threading path —
serveConfigJson -> HiveEnv -> render_flake — to reach each agent as
`hyperhive.claudeCodePath`. Null (the default) is today's behaviour.
What travels is the store *path*, as a plain string literal, not a flake
input: containers share the host's `/nix/store`, so the build is already
reachable inside them with its whole closure and has nothing to travel.
An input would be worse than useless — a `path:/nix/store/<pkg>` input
is re-copied as a reference-less `-source`, which strips exactly the
closure the binary needs.
The catch is that a path written into a generated flake is text, so
nothing in the container's closure keeps the binary alive. The host does
that instead, and gets it for free: the package is interpolated into
`/etc/hyperhive/serve.json`, `builtins.toJSON` preserves string context,
so the /etc entry references it and the system closure gc-roots it for
as long as that generation is the one the agents were rendered from. An
assertion pins that property, because losing the context is invisible at
eval and at deploy — it would surface only as every agent failing to
spawn `claude` whenever the next gc ran.
Container side wraps the path in a symlink farm rather than putting it
on PATH directly: `systemd.services.<name>.path` and
`environment.systemPackages` both coerce a store-path *string* through
`lib.toDerivation`, i.e. `builtins.storePath`, which pure evaluation
rejects. Interpolating the path into a builder is just text and
evaluates anywhere. `claude-code` drops out of systemPackages when a
pin is set, so there is exactly one claude in the container.
Refs #2693
Encoding "not configured" as weight 0 worked (the writer omitted the
line) but the type lied: 0 is not a legal cgroup v2 weight, and every
reader had to know the sentinel. Use Option<u32> end to end instead —
wire type, priv_client, HiveEnv, drop-in writer — so "unset" is a state
of the type rather than a magic value.
The nix options become nullOr, keeping their default of 80; null now
expresses "leave the setting out of the drop-in entirely" declaratively,
which is the useful shape on a host whose IO scheduler ignores
io.weight anyway.
Backward compat is unchanged: the fields stay #[serde(default)], so a
request from an older hive-c0re deserialises to None and reproduces the
pre-weights drop-in byte for byte. The test that pins that now passes
None instead of 0.
`CPUQuota=`/`MemoryMax=` are hard caps: they throttle an agent even when
the host is idle, so they are the wrong tool for "be polite under
contention". The cgroup v2 relative shares are, and neither was wired.
Adds `services.hyperhive.{agentCpuWeight,agentIoWeight}` (1..=10000,
default 80) threaded through the existing drop-in path: HiveEnv ->
write_dropins -> WriteResourceLimits -> hyperhive-limits.conf, next to
the caps already there. Hive-wide only, as the operator scoped it on the
issue: no per-agent override, no resource-limits.json field, no
dashboard form.
The default of 80 is below the kernel's 100, so agent containers yield
to everything *not* on this drop-in path -- host services and the infra
containers (hive-ci, hive-forge, hive-gateway, hive-matrix). It does not
rank agents against each other; they all carry the same weight.
`WriteResourceLimits` gains two `#[serde(default)]` fields, and the
writer treats weight 0 as "not configured" and omits the line, so an
older hive-c0re talking to a newer hive-priv still produces the exact
pre-weights drop-in. The body is extracted into `limits_dropin_body` so
that is covered by a test rather than asserted by eye.
The gateway container's /etc/resolv.conf is a one-shot copy: nixos-container
cps it in from the host in its start script, and nspawn's --resolv-conf=auto
copies (not binds) for a writable host-netns container. systemd-nspawn(1)
states the consequence outright — "no further propagation of configuration is
generally done after the one-time early initialization (this is because the
file is usually updated through copying and renaming)".
dnsmasq has no explicit upstream and follows that file, so a host network
change strands it on a resolver that no longer answers and every non-hive
lookup from every agent hangs. Agents' own resolvers point at the static
bridge IP and never go stale, which is why the symptom presents as "the
gateway needs a kick".
Add a host-side hive-gateway-resolv path unit watching /etc/resolv.conf.
On change it machinectl copy-to's the file into the container and reloads
dnsmasq — ExecReload is kill -HUP, so upstreams are re-read and the cache
flushed without dropping anything; nginx never notices.
- watched from the HOST: a rename on the host doesn't cross the nspawn mount
namespace, so an in-container path unit can't see it (same reason c0re
reloads nginx from the host side)
- copy, not a file bind-mount: openresolv renames over the file, so a bind
would pin the first inode forever — strictly worse than today
- machinectl copy-to writes through the container's own mount namespace, so
this holds regardless of how the container assembles /etc
- armed Before=network-pre.target so the boot's first DHCP write is caught,
and re-run on gateway start for changes made while it was down
- a host file with no nameserver line is skipped, not pushed, so a
mid-rewrite snapshot can't blank hive DNS
- deliberately no fallback server=: dnsmasq queries all known upstreams in
parallel, so a hardcoded public resolver would take a share of normal
traffic rather than only covering the gap
Container nix invocations hard-failed whenever the remote builder
muede-pc2 was unreachable, while the identical build on the host
succeeded. Both go through the same host nix-daemon, so the difference
looked impossible.
The cause is that `fallback` is a client-side option: the nix client
transmits it to the daemon per connection (`tryFallback` in setOptions),
so the caller decides whether a failed remote dispatch may degrade to a
local build — even when the build itself runs on the host daemon under
NIX_REMOTE=daemon. Only genuinely daemon-side settings such as
`builders` are inherited from the host. The containers never set
`fallback`, so they took nix's default of false.
Set it in the agent-container base module and in the CI container, and
correct the hive-ci comment that claimed fallback was inherited from
the host daemon along with buildMachines and max-jobs.
Verified in an agent container: `nix fmt` fails outright on the remote
store's connection reset, while the same command with fallback enabled
reports the same connection error and then builds locally and succeeds.
The host admin socket `/run/hyperhive/host.sock` was `0660 root:root` (no
SocketGroup), so hivectl needed sudo. Group-own it by a new `hive-admin`
group and add a `services.hyperhive.c0re.adminUsers` allowlist: listed users
join `hive-admin` and drive hivectl without root.
- `SocketGroup = "hive-admin"`, `SocketMode = "0660"` on the hive-c0re.socket
unit.
- `/run/hyperhive` -> `0751` (traverse-only, no listing) so the group can reach
the socket path; the socket's own `0660 hive-admin` mode gates the
connection, and the per-agent subdirs keep their own restrictive perms.
- Empty `adminUsers` (the default) leaves `hive-admin` memberless -> root-only,
as before.
The admin socket is full hive control (spawn/kill/destroy/deploy), so
`adminUsers` is an explicit, opt-in trust grant. Documented in
docs/boundary.md (host admin socket access) + docs/tools/hivectl.md.
CI's nix flake check ran in hive-ci's OWN in-container nix-daemon, which
offloads to the pc2 remote builder and HARD-FAILS when pc2 is
unreachable (Connection-reset) — reddening every PR's queue hive-wide.
The host daemon builds fine in the same situation (buildMachines +
max-jobs>=1 + fallback → local build when pc2 is down), and the agent
containers already route through it.
Give hive-ci the same wiring: bind-mount the host nix-daemon socket dir
into the container, set NIX_REMOTE=daemon, and disable the container's
own nix-daemon service + socket. Now CI builds through the host daemon —
pc2 offload when it's up, graceful local fallback when it's down. Drops
the now-moot in-container wait-nix-daemon precond. Needs an operator
rebuild to apply.
hive-core now fetches each agent's config as a forge-hosted flake input
(git+http://<forge>/agent-configs/<n>.git). Add a git credential helper
(git-credential-hive-forge) that reads the live forge-core admin token on
every invocation and authenticates as the forge core user, wired via the
[credential] stanza in hive-core's $HOME/.gitconfig + on the service PATH.
Reading the token file live means zero stale copies and no resync on
rotation; no token ever lands in a flake URL or lock. Mirrors the existing
github.nix credential-helper pattern.
Completes #2415. Registration no longer gates container@hive-ci start:
- Retire the host-side hive-ci-prefetch.service (+ its 100-line script and
the now-dead coreTokenPath/containerRoot let-bindings) — the forge round-trip
it did on the boot path now lives in hive-c0re (forge/ci_runner.rs), run out
of band during the startup sweep.
- Drop the container@hive-ci TimeoutStartSec = mkForce 180s band-aid that
papered over that boot-path wait tripping the nspawn start timeout (the ~60s
restart loop of #2410).
- gitea-runner-hive gains an ExecStartPre precond (ahead of the nix-daemon
wait) that fails fast unless it is already registered (.runner present) or a
real, non-placeholder token is in place — so missing creds just hold the
runner down instead of blocking the container. Restart=on-failure (no start
limit) self-heals it once hive-c0re writes the token; c0re's explicit restart
is the primary path.
- Set HYPERHIVE_FORGE_CI_ENABLED=1 on hive-c0re.service so the sweep registers.
The tmpfiles TOKEN=placeholder seed + read-only bind-mount are unchanged; the
core admin token still never enters the container.
hive-c0re already samples each agent container's cgroup load for the
dashboard (stats/container_stats.rs); this rides those gauges out to the
configured OTLP endpoint, reusing the existing services.hyperhive.otel
config (endpoint + auth header) — no new toggle.
- New stats/otel_metrics.rs: exports via the OpenTelemetry Rust SDK (same
crates as hive-metric) with the semconv container.* metric names +
container.name attribute so off-the-shelf OTel/Grafana dashboards work,
plus the hive agent label. container.cpu.time (counter, s, from cumulative
cpu.stat usage_usec), container.memory.usage, container.memory.usage.limit;
memory peak / on-disk storage / instantaneous cpu percent stay hyperhive.*
custom (no semconv equivalent). Observable instruments read a shared
snapshot an async task refreshes (gather() is async; SDK callbacks sync).
- container_stats: expose cpu_time_usec (cumulative) on ContainerResource.
- The OTLP auth header is loaded onto hive-c0re's own unit via systemd
LoadCredential and read from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY/otel-headers.
- docs/observability.md documents the host-emitted semconv metrics.
Host-side export, so it covers containers even when their agent is idle.
