hive-c0re reads its cache facts from the store every five minutes and writes /run/hyperhive/attic/{netrc,substituter,public-key}, each 0600. it accepts only an https url, so the pull token never travels in clear. hives get a read grant on the agent-closures bucket, and swarm-queue-client a reader for it. part 2 of 3: nothing uses the files or the reader until the probe lands.
the in-swarm cache stores its address, name and public key beside its tokens, create-only. swarm-controller copies the four cache facts to swarm/hives/<hive>/attic/* every five minutes, with read on the sources and write on the copies. part 1 of 3: nothing reads the copies until the hive reader and probe land.
The folded-in secrets.md text sat after the reference's table, so the
reference was half prose. The overview now holds all the prose (where a
secret lives, topologies, the swarm- and hive-level notes, how a reader
reaches the store, the browser UI, adding a secret) and the reference holds
only the tables, each pointing at the section that explains it. No text
dropped; links that asked for the explanation now go to the overview, and
the ones that asked for a list or a row go to the reference.
secrets.md and credentials-reference.md answered the same question from two
pages. secrets.md's text now follows the reference's table and operating
notes as a 'Where each secret lives' section, unchanged apart from where it
sits. Every link and doc path that named secrets.md (docs, nix comments,
crate READMEs) points at credentials-reference.md; anchors are unchanged.
The overview keeps the store invariant, the mTLS exception and the
minter/reader/renewal contract. The table of every credential and the
operating notes (forge token checks, re-creating agents, revoking a queue
credential, store login retries) move unchanged to credentials-reference.md,
and the links that asked where a credential lives point there.
