argus's review on this PR flagged a real clarity regression: "Forge
notifications are polled by their own process, not this loop" became
"Their own process polls forge notifications, not this loop" -- the
original's "their" clearly referred back to "Forge notifications"
within the same clause; the rewrite put "Their" first with nothing
plural preceding it in the paragraph, so the pronoun has no
referent when the reader hits it. This was exactly a case where the
passive was doing real work (subject-first noun introduction), not
just avoiding an active verb.
Uses argus's own suggested fix: name the process directly instead of
leaning on a pronoun at all, and drop the now-redundant second
mention of the same name a few words later.
Fifth batch of the ongoing write-good.Passive pass (hyperhive#4042):
read all 42 hits across the four docs/turn-loop files in context and
rewrote the 36 with a clearly nameable actor, usually one already
sitting in the same sentence or established a sentence or two earlier
(the broker, the harness, drive_turn, the renderer, hive-c0re, or a
specific fn/type named right there). Left 6 alone: predicate-adjective
copulas that only look passive ("is gone", "Bash is disallowed", "is
documented behavior" — nothing actually acts on the subject), a
config-conditional idiom with no in-file inconsistency to fix ("when
hyperhive.docs.enable is set"), and a paraphrase of what a rendered
message tells the agent ("the docs are mounted at that path").
Verified via vale before/after: 42 -> 6 write-good.Passive hits in
docs/turn-loop, exactly the 6 left alone; error count and other
warning categories unchanged. Re-read every changed line in its full
surrounding context after editing (not just the vale count) per the
lesson from the docs/process batch.
Fixes the "obvious ones first" slice of #4042 (mara: do the obvious
ones first) -- 81 hits across write-good.So, write-good.ThereIs, and
write-good.Weasel, all in docs/. Each is a genuine sentence rewrite
(lead with the real subject instead of "There is/are", drop a
sentence-initial "So ", replace a vague intensifier), not a blind
regex substitution -- read every hit in its real file context before
touching it.
3 of the 81 hits were in CI-generated CLI docs (docs/tools/{hivectl,
swarmctl,forge}-cli.md) -- fixed at the clap #[arg(...)]/doc-comment
source in hivectl/src/cli.rs, swarmctl/src/main.rs, and
hive-forge/src/verbs/repo_add_collaborator.rs, then regenerated via
each crate's `markdown-docs` subcommand so CI's freshness check stays
green.
Verified: fresh vale re-run shows 0 remaining So/ThereIs/Weasel hits
and no new hits introduced (983->982, exactly the one incidental fix
this pass also picked up at docs/scheduler/observability.md:48).
cargo fmt --check and clippy clean on the three touched crates.
Remaining write-good backlog (Passive: 726, TooWordy: 207) is
judgment-heavy and left for a follow-up slice of #4042, not bulk-
rewritten here.
Apply contraction fixes across ~40 doc files (setup, integrations, lifecycle,
networking, scheduler, swarm, tools, trust-boundary, UI, etc.). Skipped 14 hits:
- 10 where words appear in ALL CAPS for deliberate emphasis (is NOT, do NOT, etc.)
- 4 where text could not be safely located due to markdown formatting or column position
Applied via systematic scan with checks for fenced code blocks, inline code spans,
and intentional caps. Preserves sentence-initial capitalization throughout.
Fixes the 'genuine' bucket from #4040's triage: whitelist/allowlist
(6 hits across 5 files, including a heading rename in turn-loop/mcp.md
-- checked no anchor links reference it first) and the
simply/obvious/easy condescending-word cluster (10 of 13 hits, real
sentence-level rewrites rather than mechanical deletion so nothing
reads awkwardly).
Left 3 alex.Condescending hits untouched on purpose:
integrations/matrix.md:271 and process/conventions.md:442 both say
"non-obvious", swarm/ca.md:162 says "not obvious" -- alex matched
the substring "obvious" inside a negated phrase, the literal opposite
of condescending. Flagging these on the issue rather than silently
leaving them out.
Per mara's go-ahead on hyperhive#3902 ("getting started is good, but
terminal rendering does not go in there i think"):
Moved 21 top-level docs/*.md files into 7 new topic subdirectories
(existing web-ui/, turn-loop/, swarm/, tools/, crates/ untouched):
getting-started/ setup.md
agent-lifecycle/ agent-hierarchy.md, approvals.md, persistence.md
trust-boundary/ boundary.md, security.md
integrations/ forge.md, matrix.md, github.md, knowledge.md
networking/ gateway.md, network.md, snapshot-store.md
scheduler/ jobq.md, coordinator.md, ci.md, observability.md
process/ conventions.md, gotchas.md, pr-review-gate.md
web-ui/ terminal-rendering.md (moved into the EXISTING dir,
per mara's correction to the original getting-started
guess -- it's UI implementation detail, not onboarding)
The physical layout now matches docs/README.md's own topical headers,
which already amounted to this taxonomy -- see the scoping comment on
the issue for the two findings that motivated this (a genuine
duplication between CLAUDE.md's old "Reading paths" list and
docs/README.md's grouped one, since drifted out of sync with each
other; and the flat layout not matching the grouping we already had).
Fixed every cross-reference this moved across the whole repo (~120
files: docs/ internal links at every depth, Rust doc comments, nix
module option docs, crate READMEs) -- verified two ways: a grep sweep
confirming zero remaining references to any old path, and a script
that resolves every markdown link in docs/**/*.md + CLAUDE.md +
README.md against the filesystem and reports anything that doesn't
exist (zero broken links).
Collapsed CLAUDE.md's "Reading paths" section (the duplicate) down to
a pointer at docs/README.md, now the single index. Rewrote
docs/README.md itself to use the new subdirectory paths and added the
one doc it was missing that CLAUDE.md's old copy had (pr-review-gate.md).
Classified all 22 docs/*.md files first via a haiku subagent (mara's
suggestion) on two axes -- proposed grouping and operator-vs-
implementation focus -- before finalizing the taxonomy; spot-checked
the report and found internal inconsistencies (its classification
table disagreed with its own summary section for a few files), so this
taxonomy is my original proposal + the one correction mara gave
directly, not a blind application of the subagent's table. The
operator-focus data it gathered is still useful for a follow-up
content pass (docs skewing 'mixed' rather than pure operator-facing),
not addressed in this PR -- structure only.
nix fmt clean, both pre-push lints clean.
Verified against hive-c0re/src/agent_config/topology.rs: there is no
parent_of function; <parent> sentinel resolution happens in
topology::resolve_recipient.
Verified against hive-agent/src/main.rs and hive-core-agent-sock/src/lib.rs:
there is no AgentRequest/AgentResponse or ManagerRequest/ManagerResponse
alias anywhere in the tree — hive-agent uses hive_core_agent_sock's
unified Request/Response enum directly.
The disk_watch todo producer isn't turn-loop-shaped -- it's disk-space
state tracked in persistence.md's State dirs (per agent) section, right
next to hyperhive-todos.sqlite's own description. Leave a lean pointer
in the boot-wiring narrative instead of duplicating the detail.
Fixes#2727
Part of hyperhive#1898 (b): every docs subdir should have a top-level
README.md link, achieved by moving/renaming where an existing file
already fits the role.
docs/turn-loop.md already served as the hub + index for the three
sub-pages under turn-loop/ (claude-invocation.md, config.md, mcp.md),
so it moves wholesale rather than leaving a redundant top-level
pointer stub. Fixes every inbound/relative link across the repo
(top-level README.md, CLAUDE.md, docs/persistence.md,
docs/tools/scheduling.md, the sub-pages own back-link, hive-agent
README + doc comments, hive-agent/Cargo.toml, .prettierignore per-file
exemption entry) - grepped the whole tree for both turn-loop.md and
turn-loop/ to find every reference rather than trusting a partial
list.
nix fmt clean, cargo check -p hive-agent clean.
