security.md's "What's NOT exposed" list said `/home/<name>/.claude/` is mode
`0700`. Measured from inside an agent container — the vantage the claim is
about, since the nixbld users in this threat model run there — it is `0755`.
`ensure_claude_dir` (hive-c0re/src/lifecycle/setup.rs) chmods it to 0755
deliberately, and its comment says why: hive-core is a different user and needs
read+execute to list the directory so `claude_has_session` can detect a valid
session. So the code is right and the doc named a mechanism that was never the
real one.
The conclusion the doc drew still holds — nixbld users can't read anything that
matters. Every sensitive entry is protected on its own: `.credentials.json`,
`history.jsonl` and `settings.json` at 0600, `projects/` and `sessions/` at
0700, and the five `backups/*.backup.*` at 0600. 32 nixbld users exist on this
host (uid 30001+) and none of them can read any of it.
What changes is the invariant a reader should rely on. The directory mode was
the doc's whole stated guarantee and it isn't there; the protection is per-file,
which fails differently — anything landing in `.claude/` at a default mode is
world-readable while the doc says it cannot be. `plugins/` (596 files, 0755) and
`.last-cleanup` (0644) already demonstrate that files do land loose there. Both
are harmless; the point is that nothing stops the next one from being.
Closes#4204.
`cfg` is whatever the reading module bound it to. It does not exist in a
NixOS configuration, so a sentence naming an option as `cfg.<name>` is
correct about behaviour and unusable as an instruction — the reader has
to go find the real path.
The four sites in docs/networking/gateway.md this was filed for:
cfg.sshPort -> services.hyperhive.swarm.forge.sshPort
cfg.dashboardPort -> services.hyperhive.c0re.dashboardPort
cfg.frontend (x2) -> services.hyperhive.c0re.frontend
Sweeping docs/ for the pattern rather than the ticket's line numbers
found five more, in four other files:
approvals.md cfg.hyperhiveFlake -> services.hyperhive.c0re.hyperhiveFlake
matrix.md cfg.registrationTokenFile -> services.hyperhive.deploy.matrix.registrationTokenFile
matrix.md cfg.gatewayHost -> services.hyperhive.swarm.matrix.gatewayHost
conventions.md cfg.dashboardPort -> services.hyperhive.c0re.dashboardPort
gotchas.md cfg.dashboardPort -> services.hyperhive.c0re.dashboardPort
matrix.md is the clearest case for doing this at all: its two `cfg.`
references resolve to *different* option trees — `deploy.matrix` and
`swarm.matrix` — so the shorthand is ambiguous even within one file.
Each path is read off the `mkOption` that declares it plus the
`options.services.hyperhive.*` root it sits under, with the indentation
checked so a nested block cannot have been missed. `cfg.frontend` is
declared in hive-c0re, not the gateway: the gateway module binds
`cfg = config.services.hyperhive.gateway`, which has no `frontend`.
Deliberately unchanged: docs/networking/snapshot-store.md:136, where
`cfg.port` sits inside a ```nix block quoting module source. `cfg` is
correct there, and rewriting it would make the snippet wrong.
Closes#4193.
The TLS section read as universal — "the gateway always terminates TLS",
"listens on httpsPort on every vhost". Measured against the rendered
config of an all-local host: ten of eleven vhosts carry two listens and
addSSL/forceSSL, and `grafana-metrics` carries one plain-HTTP listen on
127.0.0.1 with a single `= /metrics` location proxying grafana's unix
socket for the local collector.
The exception is right; a doc with no room for it is not. Someone asking
"is anything here serving plain HTTP" was told no, when the useful answer
is "no, except an internal class that is loopback-bound and deliberately
exempt" — which tells them what to look for on the next host.
One sentence where the modes are introduced rather than a patch to each
sentence that inherits the assumption, plus "every vhost" -> "every
routable vhost" where the self-signed default repeats it.
Two neighbouring claims were checked at the same time and hold: /_matrix/
proxies to 127.0.0.1:8008, and .well-known/matrix/client returns the
homeserver base_url with no port suffix on 443.
Closes#4191
`docs/tools/forge-cli.md` is generated from the clap tree, so changing an
argument or its doc comment changes that file too. The freshness check in
`checks.hive-forge-docs` is what says so, and it is what failed here —
after 8m44s, on a PR that was already approved.
Regenerated, no hand edits. Two hunks, both the `pr status` section, and
`nix fmt` leaves the result byte-identical so the formatter and the
generator are not fighting over it.
Part of #4182.
observability.md scoped the whole feature to Claude Code statistics, so a
reader asking what leaves an agent container would have concluded
counters and nothing else.
That page also documents the trust properties of the agent->collector
hop, and those are what needs restating for a richer payload: same
destination, same credential, same already-accepted ability to push
arbitrary OTLP. What changes is how much detail leaves by default.
docs/swarm/services.md needs no change. It already said each hive ships
the journals of "the harness units inside every agent container" — which
was not true until now.
Part of #3940.
The `prose lint (vale, errors)` CI gate fails on Microsoft.Contractions
at `setup.md:147`, in prose this branch adds.
Verified against the repo's own styles rather than assumed: with
`XDG_DATA_HOME=$PWD/.vale-data vale sync` (the ini's own note — sync
ignores `StylesPath` and writes under `$XDG_DATA_HOME`), the file
reports 0 errors, and a copy of it with the word put back reports that
line and nothing else. Without the sync, vale exits 2 on a missing
styles dir, which is a config error rather than a pass.
The bootstrap unit writes a policy granting `secret/data/swarm/agents/*` and
nothing creates that engine. A fresh OpenBao has no `secret/` — only a dev-mode
one does — so `swarm-controller`'s first credential write answers `no handler
for route "secret/data/swarm/agents/<agent>/matrix/<name>". route entry not
found.` Measured on the live host at 21:27:27Z; #4171.
`git grep` for `secrets enable`, `kv-v2`, `kv_v2` and `sys/mounts` returned zero
across the whole tree. Control, so the zero means something: `auth enable` in
this same file returns 2 — the same defect was already found and fixed once, for
the cert auth mount, with a comment that states the principle. This is the other
half of it.
The mount name is now bound once and interpolated into both the policy text and
the new step, because a grant and a mount that disagree is exactly the failure
being fixed.
Placed outside the client-CA block: the controller writes *through* this mount
regardless of whether anything can log in by certificate. `module-eval` asserts
that, since one indentation level decides it.
Grants, measured against a real openbao 2.6.2 rather than derived:
`-output-policy` asks for `sys/mounts/secret` create+update, and a token holding
exactly `sys/mounts` read + `sys/mounts/<path>` create/update enabled the engine
— **no `sudo`**, unlike `sys/auth/cert`. Negative control: the same token on an
ungranted path got 403, so the grant is what made it work. `setup.md`'s
documented policy gains those two.
Also from that session, each deciding how this is written: re-enabling an
existing path errors (exit 2), so this asks first like the auth mount does;
`secrets list -format=json` keys look like `"secret/"`, so the `case` idiom
ports over; and `kv put -mount=<p>` reports `<p>/data/...`, confirming v2 — the
prefix the policy grants and the client writes.
setup.md also drops a check that cannot work: it told the operator to confirm
with `bao read auth/cert/…`, which 403s because the host wrapper carries no
token. `systemctl status swarm-bao-controller-policy` needs no credential and
names the three success lines. The first-attempt-after-rebuild race is now
written down too — the store is still coming up, and the 30s retry is what
lands.
Refs #4171.
The bootstrap block still described a one-shot unit "inside the store's
container". That stopped being true when the unit moved, and a merged
change that leaves the docs asserting the old topology is worse than one
that never moved it.
Also retires the "only run once, didn't go all the way through" note. It
has run twice against a live store now and failed both times — but for
its own reasons, not the grants': it could not reach the store from where
it ran, so neither attempt exercised a single one of them. The grants are
still derived from `-output-policy` rather than proven, and the warning
now says that directly instead of implying a partial test.
The host now has a wrapped bao (#4154, deployed) carrying the store's
address, CA and client cert, so the init step is a bare command there
instead of a root-login hop with an SNI override. The container route
stays as one sentence explaining why it needs the two extra pieces.
The delete step said "once that has run" without saying what -- the
rebuild, or the unit succeeding. It now names the check that settles it,
because deleting the token before the role exists leaves the unit
skipping forever and looks exactly like a store nobody bootstrapped.
Closes#4162
The doc-comment sweep changed --help text, so the generated reference went
stale and hive-forge-docs-fresh caught it. Regenerated with the command the
check itself prints; the diff is five lines, all propagations of the sweep.
Kept as its own commit rather than an amend: argus approved d090a9fb, and a
force-push clears both the verdict and the review request.
Refs #4155
docs/tools/forge.md already listed the nine renamed verbs as removed, then
used them ~30 more times in pasteable blocks. Sweeps every occurrence a
reader would type, including three runtime messages that told the user to
run a verb the same binary rejects.
The renamed-verb list itself keeps the old names; it is what documents them.
Refs #4155
mcp.md called it `hivectl choom`; the verb is `hivectl agent <name>
choom`. observability.md cited `hivectl shell`, which has never existed
at any level — the sentence only needs a shell, so it names one instead of
guessing which command an operator reaches for.
Found by subtracting the generated hivectl-cli.md's command headings from
every hivectl citation in docs/. Re-running it after the fix drops the
candidate list from 16 to 14, losing exactly these two.
Closes#4159
"On the host that RUNS the store" is ambiguous in the deployment we
actually ship: openbao runs inside the `swarm-bao` container, so the
host and the container are different vantages with different working
addresses, and the instruction reads as either.
From inside the container neither obvious address works — the server
certificate is issued for the store's DNS name and carries no IP SAN,
while that name resolves to the bridge rather than to the container. The
fix is an SNI override: verify the name, connect on loopback. The host's
own address is stated beside it so the reader can pick a vantage instead
of discovering the constraint from a TLS error.
Per mara's screenshot report (agent-terminal icons not aligned in the
first column) — and her explicit follow-up steer on the first version of
this fix: 'dont do it by offsets at all, it should be part of the layout
that they align.'
Root cause traced first, not guessed: .row-glyph relied on inheriting
text-indent: -1.4em from .live .row to paint its glyph in the reserved
prefix slot; details.row > summary separately reset text-indent: 0 for
its own hanging-caret needs, which also zeroed the inherited value for
the icon nested inside it (indent inherits by computed value, not by
rule). Two independently-computed offsets that had to agree by hand,
and silently didn't.
Replaced the whole offset scheme with a real structural fix: every row
is a 2-column CSS grid (icon column, width from one shared
--row-icon-col custom property, then content column), and a details
row grids its own <summary> with the exact same grid-template-columns
value instead of griding itself (so its <pre> body still stacks full
width below, not squeezed into column 2). Icon and content are placed
by explicit grid-column, not auto-placement inference, so an icon-less
row's lone child still lands in the content column. .row-content is a
new wrapper class (Row.tsx, terminal.js's row()/mutableRow()/
placeholder()) giving that content an element the grid can target by
class - a DocumentFragment (what linkify() returns) doesn't persist as
a node once appended, so without an explicit wrapper there was nothing
for the grid to place.
Caught and fixed a second real bug while building this for real (not
just reasoning about the CSS): the first draft's details.row { display:
block } had lower specificity than .live .row's display: grid and never
actually applied, squeezing <summary> into the row's own 1.4em icon
column and wrapping its text one character per line. Needed
.live details.row to out-specify it.
Verified with a headless-chromium render of all 6 row shapes (flat
icon / flat icon-less / flat markdown-body / details icon / details
icon-less / a long-wrapping flat row) - all align and wrap correctly.
Also verified via the earlier Range.getBoundingClientRect() measurement
(glyph paint position, not just the element's own box): diff 0.00 for
both this and the previous fix, but only this one is structural rather
than two numbers that happen to still agree today.
mara, on #4128: add a CI step (separate from the existing one) that
only flags error-level vale hits, so it can be made a required check
without also gating merges on the pre-existing warning/suggestion
backlog. The full job stays as-is, advisory, for that backlog.
Also brought docs/scheduler/ci.md's CI-checks table back in sync with
reality (it was missing the doc-pointer lint job already; now lists
both vale jobs and their required-check status).
mara disagreed with exempting this section from #4041's ruling.
'Backend' here meant 'which LLM API provider', and the doc already
uses 'provider' for the same concept a few lines down ('provider-
specific model string') - so reword to that instead of carving out
an exception. Drops the inline vale suppression comment entirely.
Per #4128 (mara: allow-everywhere false positives go in a central
list, otherwise fix in source). Testing surfaced better fixes than
the plan posted on the issue:
- 5x Microsoft.Contractions 'that is' idiom false positives: adding
the missing comma ("that is, ...") both reads better and satisfies
the rule's own negative-lookahead, so no suppression is needed at
all. Fixed in docs/integrations/forge.md, docs/tools/forge.md,
docs/tools/hivectl.md, docs/web-ui/dashboard.md, and
swarmctl-cli.md's generated source (swarmctl/src/main.rs, doc
comment regenerated via markdown-docs).
- persistence.md's 'is not' matching inside 'is nothing': reworded to
'there'\''s nothing' rather than add any exception -- dodges the trap
and is a genuine contraction besides.
- ca.md's 'it is' matching inside the already-correct 'it isn'\''t':
tried a central .vale.ini TokenIgnores entry first per the
allow-everywhere framing, but testing against the real file (not
just a synthetic snippet) found it silently fails to suppress
whenever markdown emphasis syntax appears earlier in the same
file -- an offset-drift bug in how Vale applies TokenIgnores, not
a config mistake. Reworded to "it'\''s not" instead, same fix
shape as persistence.md.
- config.md's 3 genuine Microsoft.Avoid 'backend' exceptions (already
flagged and accepted on #4139 -- an actually-pluggable LLM API
provider, matching the nix option's own name, not one internal
system to name): scoped inline vale suppression around just that
section, since this one really is context-specific rather than a
rule bug.
Verified: fresh 'vale docs/ --minAlertLevel=error' is 0 errors AND
0 warnings (was 10 errors). nix fmt 0 changed beyond the edits
themselves. pre-push lints (tracker-tag/comment-block/doc-pointer)
clean. cargo clippy -p swarmctl -- -D warnings clean. Diffed the
regenerated swarmctl-cli.md against the old copy to confirm only
the intended line moved.
Per mara's ruling on hyperhive#4041 (Microsoft.We): keep the rule enabled,
same treatment as the 'backend' rewrites. Traced all 21 genuine hits (4
gateway.md 'Let's Encrypt' hits are a substring-match false positive, left
alone) to their actual referent: some name a specific component already
established nearby in the same doc (forge_notify, hive-github-notify's
poller, hive-forge, hive-agent/the harness, colors.css, the dashboard),
others were pure filler that adds nothing once dropped.
The section this branch adds was the only source of `Microsoft.Contractions`
errors in the file — 9 of them, and vale over the pre-change bytes still
reports exactly those 9, so the count is attributable rather than inferred
from a repo-wide total that was already red.
One of the nine is not a contraction: vale reads `it is` in "Narrowing it is
tracked in ..." as a subject-verb pair, but it is `it` (the object of
narrowing) plus `is tracked`. Rephrased so the sentence leads with the issue
instead, which drops the false hit and the passive-voice warning together.
A hive reads its agents' credentials with its own certificate, and nothing
said which paths that certificate may read, so the read half of a delivery
answered 403.
The grant is wide on purpose. An agent's path does not name the hive
hosting it -- agents move -- so a per-hive grant has to be an enumeration
the controller re-emits whenever the roster changes, and an enumeration
that can drift or land out of order advertises a boundary it does not
hold. A wide grant that says what it is beats a narrow one that only looks
narrow. mara's call, on the PR: rather a too-lax scope than one that
pretends to be strict.
What that buys, beyond honesty: the document is identical for every hive
and depends on nothing, so it is written once at startup beside the rest of
a hive's provisioning instead of on every declaration. No derived state, no
re-emission, and the ordering hazard that came with one stops existing.
What still holds is read-only. A hive cannot write an agent's credential,
so it cannot hand itself an agent's identity, and the grant reaches nothing
in the store outside the agent-credential prefix.
The fact is documented where someone meets the boundary rather than only in
this message, and the two ways to narrow it later -- scope per hive, or
give agents their own store identity -- are tracked.
Per mara's ruling on hyperhive#4041 (Microsoft.Avoid): 'backend' never says
which system it means. Fixed all 21 fixable hits to name the actual daemon
(mostly hive-c0re; one hive-agent instance and one hive-matrix-daemon one,
both confirmed against surrounding context, not guessed). Also tightened
Weston's own 'VNC backend'/'RDP backend' plugin references to their literal
upstream names (vnc-backend/rdp-backend) rather than dropping the accurate
term entirely, and reworded one unrelated Microsoft.Avoid hit ('and so on').
Left alone (flagged on the issue, not guessed): docs/turn-loop/config.md's
3 remaining hits match the actual nix option name (backendEnvironmentFile)
and describe a genuinely pluggable concept (which LLM API provider), not
one specific internal system.
cc8fb0ee44 (swarm-bao controller-write-credentials
work) added a fresh 'did not' warning callout in the bao-provision section,
right after #4129 zeroed out the genuine error-level Microsoft.Contractions
backlog, and its passive 'has been exercised' phrasing put getting-started/
back above its documented Passive-pass accepted-residual baseline (10) too.
Contracted the 'did not' and reworded the passive opener to an active one
('This has only run once...') in the same sentence, since both hits were on
the same line.
16 of the 23 error-level hits from a full-repo vale run were real:
'is/are/does/do NOT' and bold 'not' expanded per Microsoft.Contractions,
one hyphen-as-negative-number fixed to an en dash per Microsoft.Negative
(docs/web-ui/dashboard.md's -45 deg column-header tilt).
Where the caps/bold was there for emphasis (contrasting X does this,
Y does not), kept the emphasis by bolding the contraction rather than
dropping it silently -- 'is not' -> 'isn't', 'does NOT' -> '**doesn't**',
etc.
docs/tools/swarmctl-cli.md's one genuine hit is generated -- fixed the
source doc comment in swarmctl/src/main.rs and regenerated via
'cargo run --bin swarmctl -- markdown-docs', diffed against the old
copy first to confirm only the intended line changed.
Left 7 hits unfixed, false positives from the rule matching a
substring rather than the actual pattern it names:
- 4x 'that's instead of that is': every one is the explanatory 'that
is' idiom (~= i.e.), not a contractible subject+verb -- 'that's'
would misparse as a demonstrative-pronoun contraction and change the
sentence's meaning. docs/integrations/forge.md:282,
docs/tools/forge.md:260, docs/tools/hivectl.md:243,
docs/web-ui/dashboard.md:457 (and the swarmctl-cli.md generated
twin of the same category, source left alone for the same reason).
- docs/agent-lifecycle/persistence.md:482 -- 'is not' matched inside
'is nothing' (the same has-not/has-nothing substring trap noted
before in this doc's own git history).
- docs/swarm/ca.md:182 -- 'it is' matched inside the already-correct
'it isn't'.
Per #4128. Remaining errors on main after this: Microsoft.Avoid's 26
hits, already tracked + awaiting a house-style ruling on #4041.
Closes#4124.
The controller's policy granted only the bootstrap paths -- hive cert-auth
roles and hive ACLs. #4113 then made it a secret WRITER, and nothing related
the grants to the paths the code writes, so every matrix token provision
answered 403. The two halves landed on different issues and neither looked
wrong on its own.
`secret/data/` is KV v2's ACL prefix and is absent from the path the code
passes, so matching `swarm-secret-client`'s spelling literally would have
granted nothing. Write-only: the controller mints these and never reads one
back, and a read capability would let it recover every agent's credentials
rather than only replace them.
The gate is the point. Two module-eval arms -- the grant exists and is not
a broader wildcard, and its capability list is pinned whole, because an
ADDED capability is what a presence check misses -- plus a test in path.rs
pinning MOUNT/AGENT_PREFIX and naming the nix file, since renaming either
constant is a silent 403 rather than a compile error.
setup.md carried two warnings this makes false: that nothing in the tree had
ever authenticated to the store, and that no deployment shape mints a leaf
whose CN reads swarm-controller. glue-bao-tls.nix has minted one since #3726
item 1.
nix fmt table-column-width drift from the earlier comma fix (f3fe0604/82236952)
- shortening that cell by one char left the row under-padded relative to the
table's other rows. Pure whitespace, no content change.
argus's review on this PR caught a real regression: the earlier
passive-voice rewrite ('answers "did the agent come back up?", the
same way...') put a comma immediately outside a closing double-quote,
which vale's Microsoft.Quotes rule flags ("punctuation should be
inside the quotes") -- a brand new error not present on main. The
original phrasing never had a quote directly followed by a comma, so
this was a real side effect of the rewrite, not a pre-existing hit.
Simplest fix: drop the comma. The sentence reads fine without it and
the closing "?" already does the job.
Verified via vale: back to 2 errors (matching main's baseline, down
from the 3 this rewrite introduced), write-good.Passive count
unchanged at 24.
Seventh batch of the ongoing write-good.Passive pass (hyperhive#4042):
read all 65 hits across jobq.md/ci.md/observability.md/coordinator.md
in context and rewrote 41 with a clearly nameable actor -- mostly
hive-c0re, nix/the nix module, the harness, or a specific fn/type
named right there or nearby (coordinator.md's node-inventory table
and DAG-shape descriptions name concrete Rust items constantly, so
the actor is almost always sitting in the same sentence).
Left 24 alone: predicate-adjective-copula state descriptions ("is
stuck", "is gone", "is unaffected", "is done", etc. -- the largest
recurring bucket this batch, especially in observability.md's
scope/status descriptions), negative-capability idioms ("no X is
needed/left", "X can't be written down"), the established "is
tracked as a follow-up" idiom, a firewall-shorthand notation
("bridge->127.0.0.0/8 is dropped") where rewriting would break the
compact rule-like format, a CLI-flag "(repeatable)" annotation ("May
be repeated"), a Rust type-signature fact ("`moves` is typed ..."),
a hypothetical/counterfactual maintenance-burden clause, a
readiness-condition list ("a node is ready when ... every dep is
satisfied"), and one deliberately-parallel idiom pair
("When OTEL is enabled" used identically twice as a section-opening
convention -- fixing one would break the parallelism, not the
opposite).
One self-caught regression: an early attempt to fix "used by every
`Reconcile` node's start action" (a reduced participial clause, not
flagged) into "is used by every `Reconcile` node's start action"
introduced a brand-new flagged passive. Caught by the post-edit vale
count (expected 65->24, got 65->25) not matching, same discipline as
the docs/turn-loop batch's tail-truncation catch -- re-ran with
active voice instead ("Every `Reconcile` node's start action uses
this fallback").
Verified via vale before/after: 65 -> 24 write-good.Passive hits,
exactly the 24 left alone above; error count and other warning
categories unchanged. Re-read every changed line in full surrounding
context after editing before running the final vale check.
Two genuine instruction-verb hits: the container-row selection toggle
and the schedule-table per-target cancel button both said 'click' where
the action also works via keyboard (Enter/Space) or is otherwise
input-device-neutral.
Left the other 4 hits found in the same #4041 sweep alone (false
positives, not fixed here): agent.md's 'ctrl/middle-click' and
'clicks' (real mouse-button-specific browser/VNC behavior, not reader
instructions), shape.md's 'swipes in' (describes the drawer's own
animation, not a user gesture), and process/gotchas.md's
'click-to-unlock' (weston's actual lock-screen feature name).
Second half (lines 762-1389) of dashboard.md's write-good.Passive backlog --
22 rewrites, reusing an actor already named nearby wherever one exists
(the dashboard, hive-c0re, the harness, the operator, the endpoint, the
broker forwarder, CSS, Client, the manual fan-out, ...). Companion to
part 1 (PR #4117, lines 1-697).
10 left alone in this half: five established idioms (config-state
conditionals, negative-capability "nothing is X", state descriptors
"is untouched"/"is gone"), and one literal quoted UI string
("container will be created") that documents exact displayed text
rather than the doc's own voice. One rewrite (naming "the dashboard"
for the old L762 'is known stopped') incidentally leaves behind a new
instance of the same 'is stopped' idiom already accepted at L797 --
21 net fewer hits from this half, not 22, though 22 edits were made.
Together with part 1 (31 rewrites, 7 left alone), this closes out
dashboard.md's 70-hit Passive backlog: 53 edits total, 52 net fewer
hits, 18 left alone.
First half (lines 1-697) of dashboard.md's write-good.Passive backlog --
31 of the file's 70 hits rewritten to name an actor (hive-c0re, the page,
the operator, the table, the filter, builds.js, Provision, the matrix
daemon, ...), reusing an actor already named nearby wherever one exists.
7 left alone in this half: a fixed idiom ("not to be confused with"),
two false positives ("named buckets" / compound adjective; a
field-is-set data-state conditional), a negative-capability idiom
("nothing is written"), and two established state-descriptor idioms
("is unchanged", "is tooltipped").
Part 2 (lines 762-1389, ~32 more hits) is a separate follow-up, not
started -- dashboard.md is too big for one PR.
Read all 94 write-good.Passive hits across docs/swarm/ (ca.md,
README.md, secrets.md, services.md, sso.md, ui.md) in context. 44 are
genuine catches with a nameable, usually already-established actor
(swarm-controller, authelia, swarmctl, the controller, the gateway,
this module, hyperhive itself, or 'the operator' for manual actions) —
rewritten to active. 50 are legitimate passives or false catches, left
alone: predicate-adjective state descriptions (is expected/misconfigured/
broken), negative-capability idioms (no X is needed/placed, can't be
Yed/listed/fetched), config-state conditionals (whenever/when X is
enabled/configured/set), requirement-list labels (is required),
'is tracked as' idiom, backward-looking changelog facts with no actor
(was removed/verified/introduced), ambiguous-actor statements left
conservatively alone (agents are created and destroyed — could be
hive-c0re or swarm-controller, doc doesn't say), and a couple of
deliberately-parallel idiom pairs.
Several sibling-inconsistency fixes: a passive clause sitting next to
an already-active sibling describing the same fact/mechanism (ca.md's
two-bullet consumer list, README's 4-item WireGuard-mesh bullet list,
README's controller-registers-hooks paragraph, sso.md's followed-a-302
sentence).
Verified via vale on the whole directory, diffed against main's exact
baseline (not just the Passive count): write-good.Passive 94 -> 50
exactly, every other category unchanged (1 pre-existing
Microsoft.Contractions error at services... at secrets.md:182,
8 TooWordy, 1 Microsoft.We, 1 Microsoft.FirstPerson — same counts,
same locations).
agent.md, css-vars.md, design-guide.md, shape.md, terminal-rendering.md --
26 of 40 write-good.Passive hits rewritten to name the actor (hive-agent,
browsers, the harness, the client, lifecycle::{spawn,rebuild}, CSS, the
router, ...), reusing an actor already named nearby wherever one exists.
14 left alone: established config-state conditionals ("when X is
set/enabled/given/called"), negative-capability/state-descriptor idioms
("is gone", "is hidden", "is unchanged"), one false-positive
("typed slash commands" as a compound noun, not a passive action), a
backward-looking changelog fact with no actor worth naming, and two
deliberately-parallel rhetorical contrasts (sanitized vs XSS-safe;
cache-hit vs cache-miss) left symmetric on purpose.
dashboard.md (70 more hits) is the next docs/web-ui/ batch, not part of
this one -- big enough to deserve its own PR.
hive-forge and hivectl doc-comment strings for pr-create --label, diff
--full, list --label, ci-runs --branch, and several hivectl subcommand
options read as if things happened to themselves. Name the actor (hivectl,
hive-forge, or the CLI) instead, and regenerate the three docs/tools/*-cli.md
files from the rebuilt binaries.
swarmctl-cli.md needs no source change: its only passive hit is
clap-markdown's own generated boilerplate, out of scope here.
Read all 62 write-good.Passive hits across the 6 hand-written files in
docs/tools/ (bash.md, lifecycle.md, forge.md, hivectl.md, matrix.md,
scheduling.md) in context. Excludes forge-cli.md/hivectl-cli.md/
swarmctl-cli.md (57 more hits) -- those are CI-generated from the
clap doc-comment strings in hive-forge/hivectl/swarmctl, freshness-
checked against the committed markdown, so a fix there has to go in
the Rust source and get regenerated -- separate batch.
33 rewritten to active, actor usually already established in the same
paragraph or given via a 'by X' clause (the daemon, hive-c0re,
hive-forge, hivectl, hyperhive itself, or an established module name
like nix/agent-modules/mcp.nix). Several sibling-inconsistency fixes:
a passive clause next to an already-active sibling stating the same
fact (lifecycle.md's server-scoping sentence, forge.md's clone-derives
sentence, hivectl.md's daemon-hashes-passwords sentence, matrix.md's
daemon-upserts-a-todo paragraph).
29 left alone: no-X-is-Y / no-X-is-needed invariant idioms, config-state
conditionals (whenever/when X is set/configured/given), requirement-
list idiom, a false-positive tokenization (vale matching 'are read'
inside 'read-only'), definitional facts about CLI/attrset structure
with no real actor, hypothetical/counterfactual clauses describing a
rejected design alternative, a forward-looking not-yet-real removal,
compressed bullet-fragment conventions, and one deliberately-parallel
sentence structure left both halves alone to avoid breaking the
symmetry.
Verified via vale on the 6 touched files, diffed against main's exact
baseline (not just the Passive count): write-good.Passive 62 -> 29
exactly, every other category unchanged in count AND location
(TooWordy 16, Microsoft.We 1, Microsoft.FirstPerson 1, and the same
4 pre-existing Microsoft.Contractions errors at the same 4 lines).
argus caught this on PR review: the passive-to-active rewrite of the
packet-authentication sentence in snapshot-store.md started with 'So ',
which write-good.So flags as a new error not present on main. Drop the
leading word; meaning is unchanged.
Eighth batch of the ongoing write-good.Passive pass (hyperhive#4042):
read all 69 hits across network.md/snapshot-store.md/gateway.md in
context and rewrote 34 with a clearly nameable actor -- mostly
hive-c0re, dnsmasq, nginx, or a specific systemd unit/fn named right
there or a sentence or two earlier. snapshot-store.md's operator-facing
prose ("you can deploy it", "you must tell every hive") reuses this
doc's own established "you" address (already present two sentences
away in one case) rather than inventing a new register.
Left 35 alone -- the largest leave-alone count yet, dominated by two
shapes gateway.md is dense with: negative-capability/requirement
idioms ("no X is required/needed/exposed", "can't be added/wired",
"must not be exposed") and predicate-adjective state descriptions
("is misconfigured"/"is broken" in negative-contrast "not that X"
framing, "is privileged" matching the established "is trusted" bucket,
"is closed/internal" deployment-posture, "is encrypted and
unauthenticated" connection-state pair). Also: two "X was removed"
changelog-style facts with no actor clause (same family left alone in
the scheduler batch), a gerund nix-conditional pair ("X being enabled
and Y being set are assertions, not documentation"), and a passive
embedded inside an already-active sentence ("X controls whether Y is
opened" -- the real verb is already active).
One caught-and-reverted mid-edit mistake: an early attempt at the
"nginx is handed the leaf" fix landed on the wrong paragraph (an
unrelated CA-generation sentence two paragraphs up) and left a
nonsensical forward-reference behind. Caught by re-reading the diff
before running vale, not by the count -- same discipline as the
docs/process batch's original catch. Reverted cleanly and reapplied at
the actual target sentence.
One small sibling-consistency fix beyond pure voice-flipping: "The
gateway emits the following headers..." (rewritten) sat two paragraphs
above "a header is added alongside the other security headers" (still
passive) describing the same mechanism -- rewrote the second to match
("the gateway adds a header...") rather than leave one active and one
passive version of the identical fact sitting near each other.
Verified via vale before/after: 69 -> 35 write-good.Passive hits,
exactly the 35 left alone above; error count and other warning
categories unchanged. Re-read every changed line in full surrounding
context after editing before running the final vale check.
Ninth batch of the ongoing write-good.Passive pass (hyperhive#4042):
read all 75 hits across agent-hierarchy.md/persistence.md/approvals.md
in context and rewrote 46 with a clearly nameable actor -- mostly
hive-c0re, a specific fn/type named right there or a sentence or two
earlier (approvals.md's numbered "Reminder delivery" list all share
hive-c0re as the established actor across three consecutive bullets),
or "the worker"/"the daemon" reused from the section's own established
subject.
Left 29 alone. Recurring buckets: predicate-adjective state pairs
("is wedged"/"is stopped", "is unaffected", "are unrelated", "is
overloaded" -- matches the established "is trusted"/"is privileged"
family), negative-capability/invariant idioms ("no X is needed",
"can't be removed/started", "no such transient was cleared"),
forward-looking design-intent statements about not-yet-built
enforcement (agent-hierarchy.md's whole "Planned topology semantics"
section leans on this: "are meant to run", "once enforcement is
finished", "will be gated"), the "audit trail, not cache" policy
invariant restated twice verbatim ("Approvals are kept forever" /
"indefinitely" -- left both alone consistently), and a config-
conditional state idiom ("when interval_seconds is set"). One more
false-positive tokenization, same bug as knowledge.md's earlier case:
persistence.md's "`config` is read-only" trips vale's "is read" match
inside the compound adjective -- not a real passive at all.
One deliberately-conservative leave: agent-hierarchy.md's "Reminder
cancellation is handled fully in-agent" had an ambiguous actor (the
in-agent socket vs. the hive-c0re source file the doc points readers
to for detail) -- left alone rather than risk a wrong attribution,
unlike the higher-confidence rewrites elsewhere in the same batch.
Verified via vale before/after: 75 -> 29 write-good.Passive hits,
exactly the 29 left alone above; error count and other warning
categories unchanged. Re-read every changed line in full surrounding
context after editing before running the final vale check.
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.
Sixth batch of the ongoing write-good.Passive pass (hyperhive#4042):
read all 52 hits across knowledge.md/github.md/matrix.md/forge.md in
context and rewrote 39 with a clearly nameable actor -- mostly
hive-c0re, forge_notify, or a specific fn named right there or a
sentence or two earlier. forge.md's notification poller is the
densest yet (19/20 hits rewritten): forge_notify is established as
the section's sole actor early and reused throughout, the shape
that's produced the highest catch rates all along.
Left 13 alone: the "no X is needed" negative-capability idiom (x2),
a container-lifecycle state descriptor ("when container is stopped"),
a false-positive tokenization ("read-only" split across a line wrap,
vale matches "is read" inside it -- not a real passive at all), the
"X can't be Yed" idiom, a generic "before the ids are minted" timing
clause with no natural actor to name, a room-join policy-state
descriptor, an "is enabled"/"is trusted" pair describing a config/
trust state (predicate-adjective-copula bucket, same family as
"is privileged" from an earlier batch), three "**X is required**"
bolded requirement-list labels (structural convention, not really
mid-sentence passives), and a contrastive "are shared" clause
mirrored against an active sibling clause exactly like
claude-invocation.md's "everything else is shared" from the
turn-loop batch -- left alone there for the same reason.
One sibling-inconsistency catch worth flagging: forge.md's merge-
racing-comment paragraph had two passive clauses ("is left off",
"is dropped") sitting next to a third, already-active clause
("appends nothing") in the same three-item parallel list -- rewrote
all three under one active subject (forge_notify) for consistency.
Verified via vale before/after: 52 -> 13 write-good.Passive hits,
exactly the 13 left alone above; error count and other warning
categories unchanged (still on TooWordy since #4097 hasn't merged to
this branch yet). Re-read every changed line in full surrounding
context after editing, matching the diff to intent before running
the final vale check.
