Nothing capped how many subagents an agent runs at once; the operator
wants to set that per agent from swarm-ui (#5234, shape (b)).
AgentInference gains `max_subagents: Option<u32>`. An absent field
decodes as None, so every stored value still parses and means "no cap",
which is today's behaviour.
swarm-controller accepts 1..=32 on PUT. 0 would refuse every start; 32
is far more concurrent claude sessions than one agent container has
memory for, so anything above it is a typo, not a cap.
The subagent daemon already read the agent's agent-inference key for
subagent_models; it now reads it on every start and continue (not only
those naming a model) and refuses a new run once the cap's worth of
names is tracked, counted under the same lock as the name reservation.
Every tracked slot counts: running, starting, a goal run between turns,
and an interrupted one still exiting. A goal re-prompt never goes
through the reservation, so it is never refused. A failed read applies
no cap, as it falls back for models.
swarmctl's `inference set` does GET, merge, PUT; its mirror type now
carries the field so a set from the CLI keeps a cap set in swarm-ui
instead of dropping it, and `get` prints it.
After a rollback, a record a newer build wrote (a new enum variant, a
changed required field) stopped decoding, and the strict
`schedules::read` turned that into an error on every read and write of
the key until someone deleted it by hand.
- agent_limits / inference (one document per agent): an undecodable
document reads as unset, with a WARN naming the bucket, key and error.
The PUT's "equal to stored, skip the write" shortcut no longer applies
to an undecodable document, so a PUT of the defaults replaces it too.
- schedule definitions (one document, every schedule): salvaged per
definition, as the review-classifier run list is. An undecodable
definition is kept as its raw JSON, hidden from the list, edits and
projections, written back by every commit after the readable ones, and
its id is never minted again. A document with no list of schedules
stays an error: reading it as empty would empty every agent's key.
- per-agent agent-schedules: an undecodable key reads as no schedules
and is rewritten on the next projection, even when the agent has none.
`schedules::read` is replaced by `read_or_default`; `wanted` keeps its
own strict read.
Closes#5193
mara on #5034: "effort shares /models fate". The per-agent web UI no
longer sets effort: the `/effort` slash command, the effort picker,
`POST /api/effort`, `Bus::set_effort`, the `hyperhive-effort` writer,
`EFFORT_LEVELS`/`is_valid_effort` and the ACP effort-list payload are
gone, and `lib/modelEffort.ts` with them. The effort chip is
display-only and shows its source (`effort_source` in `/api/state`);
on ACP it stays hidden while the session offers no effort level.
The read side is unchanged: with no swarm value an agent runs an
existing `hyperhive-effort` file, else its agent.nix effort, else
medium. Existing files are not touched.
Refs #5034
The per-agent web UI no longer sets the model: the `/model` slash
command, the model picker, `POST /api/model`, `Bus::set_model` and the
`hyperhive-model` writer are gone. The model chip is display-only and
shows where the model comes from (`model_source` in `/api/state`). The
model is set on the swarm (swarm UI agents page, `swarmctl agent
inference set`).
The read side is unchanged: with no swarm value an agent runs its
agent.nix model, else an existing `hyperhive-model` file, else haiku.
Existing files are not touched.
With the picker gone, its model list goes too: `available_models` in
`/api/state`, the ACP model-list filter, and the harness's global
`HIVE_AVAILABLE_MODELS`. The subagent daemon keeps its own
`HIVE_AVAILABLE_MODELS` from mcp.nix, and the `availableModels`
assertion stays.
`/effort` (command, picker, route, file) is unchanged.
Refs #5034
The agent detail panel shows the model and effort an agent runs on with
where each comes from, plus the swarm's subagent model list. An edit
dialog sets the swarm value (PUT) and a clear action removes it (DELETE).
Reads the configured/effective view, and shows the stored values alone
until an agent has reported what it runs on.
`GET /api/agents/{name}/inference` answered `"configured": {}` both for
an agent with no key in `agent-inference` and for a stored value with no
fields, so a reader could not tell "the swarm sets nothing" from "a
setting with every field unset". It now reads the key as
`Option<AgentInference>`: an absent or deleted key is `null`, a stored
`{}` stays `{}`. The shared `schedules::read` helper is unchanged.
`swarmctl agent inference get` prints "no swarm setting; the agent runs
on its own model and effort" for `null`; `set` merges into an empty
value in that case, as before.
The agent itself still treats no key and `{}` the same.
Refs #5034
`check_model` accepted a value like `--dangerously-skip-permissions`,
and the stored model ends up in the agent's `claude` argv. A PUT whose
`model`, or any `subagent_models` entry (same validator), starts with
`-` is now a 400 with the same problem+json shape as the other model
checks. A dash inside a name (`claude-opus-4-8`) is still accepted.
Raised by argus on #5084.
Refs #5034
The header on `$SWARM.agent-state.<agent>` went out only when a bus event
changed it, and the core subject keeps nothing for a late subscriber. An
idle agent therefore said nothing to a reader that attached after its
last change: swarm-controller after a restart showed `effective: null`
for that agent until its next turn, which can be hours.
The publish loop now also wakes every 60 s and re-sends the current
header through the same `publish` path (clearing the dedup state first).
Transitions still go out as they happen. Same subject, same grant.
An agent whose queue connection is down now logs `swarm agent state:
publish skipped` once a minute even while idle, so the
`hh-swarm-agent-state-publish-skipped` alert also fires for idle
disconnected agents, not only busy ones.
Refs #5034
Each agent now reports the model and effort it runs on, and where each
comes from (`swarm`, `agent_nix`, `local_file` or `default`), in its
turn-state header on `$SWARM.agent-state.<agent>`: `effort`,
`model_source` and `effort_source` join `model`. The shared
`swarm_queue_client::agent_inference::{Effective, Source}` types spell
those fields for both ends.
The Bus keeps a source next to the model and effort. `Bus::new` takes it
from the local fallback chain (`harness_state::local_model` /
`local_effort`, which now return the source with the value), a `/model`
or `/effort` pick sets `local_file`, and the swarm poller sets `swarm`
or, on a clear, the local chain's source. A swarm value equal to the one
the agent already runs is now applied once, so the source moves to
`swarm` and the header is republished; before, `next()` skipped it as
unchanged.
swarm-controller subscribes to every agent's header with the reader
grant it already holds for the state relay, and keeps the latest
inference fields per agent in memory (`inference::Reported`).
`GET /api/agents/{name}/inference` now answers
`{configured, effective}`, `effective` being `null` until the agent's
first header with these fields since the controller started.
`swarmctl agent inference get` prints both; `set` reads `configured`.
Refs #5034
A `start` or `continue` naming a `model` now reads this agent's key in the
`agent-inference` bucket and, when `subagent_models` is set, checks the
model against that list instead of HIVE_AVAILABLE_MODELS (agent.nix
`availableModels`). An unset field, an absent key or an absent bucket
keeps today's check. A read that fails or takes over 2 s falls back to
HIVE_AVAILABLE_MODELS with a warning, so a subagent start never waits on
the queue. A call without a `model` is not checked and does not read.
The read uses the agent's own queue credential through swarm_term's
connect, and the one direct-get subject the agent is granted in that
bucket. The refusal names the list and that it came from the swarm.
Refs #5034 (S5)
swarm-controller keeps each agent's inference settings in a new
`agent-inference` KV bucket, one key per agent, and is its only writer
(`GET`/`PUT`/`DELETE /api/agents/{name}/inference`; `swarmctl agent
inference get|set|clear`). Every field is optional. Each agent reads its
own key every 10 s through a direct-get grant on that key alone, and a
set `model` or `effort` replaces the Bus value, so the next turn runs on
it and the badge follows.
The swarm value is applied without persisting it: `Bus::set_model` and
`set_effort` are split into a persisting setter and a non-persisting
`apply_*`, and the poller uses the latter. Otherwise the swarm value
would overwrite `hyperhive-model`/`hyperhive-effort`, and clearing it, or
a restart, would no longer find the agent's own value. An unset field
changes nothing; a field cleared after being applied goes back to the
local value (`harness_state::local_model`/`local_effort`, the same
resolution `Bus::new` uses), read again at the clear.
`subagent_models` is validated, stored and shown by `get`; no agent
applies it yet.
Refs #5034
