pure frontend — Notification API + existing /api/state and
/messages/stream signals. Caveats: secure-context requirement
(HTTPS or localhost), per-browser permission grant. Includes a
sketch of the implementation: request-permission button, count
deltas on refreshState, SSE hook on operator-bound sends,
localStorage 'muted' toggle.
model persistence: /model <name> now writes to /state/hyperhive-model
(in-container), Bus::new reads it on init. operator override survives
harness restart and container rebuild; gone on --purge like every
other piece of agent state. path overridable via HYPERHIVE_MODEL_FILE
for tests. failure to persist is a warn, not fatal — runtime override
still applies, just won't survive a restart.
unfree opt-in: drop the auto-allowUnfreePredicate from
harness-base.nix and the claude-unstable overlay. operator now has to
set nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree (or a predicate listing claude-code)
in their own host config. silent unfree bypass was sketchy; this is
honest. readme + gotchas updated to spell out the snippet.
todo: drops model-persistence + container-crash + journald (all
shipped); adds per-agent send allow-list (constrain who an agent can
message).
new hive_c0re::crash_watch task polls every 10s, builds the set of
currently-running containers, and on running→stopped transitions
checks the transient snapshot: if no Stopping / Restarting /
Destroying / Rebuilding flag is set, the container exited
unexpectedly and we fire HelperEvent::ContainerCrash into the
manager's inbox so it can react (typically: start it again).
first poll is a seeding pass — no events on harness startup. dbus
subscription would be lower-latency but polling is honest and
debuggable, and a 10s delay on crash detection is fine for our
scale.
manager prompt + approvals doc updated to advertise the new
event variant. todo drops the entry (and the journald-viewer
entry that already shipped).
- runtime model override: Bus::{model,set_model} + POST /api/model
(form-encoded {model: name}). turn.rs reads bus.model() per turn
so a flip lands on the next claude invocation. /api/state grows
a model field; agent page shows a 'model · <name>' chip in the
state row. '/model <name>' slash command POSTs to the endpoint
and refreshes state.
- port regression fix: agent_web_port no longer probes forward for
*existing* agents (the previous fix shifted ports for any agent
without a port file, including legacy ones whose container was
already bound to the bare hashed port — dashboard rendered the
new port, container was still on the old one, conn errors). new
rule: port file exists → use it; absent + applied flake present
→ legacy, persist port_hash without probing; absent + no applied
flake → fresh spawn, probe forward.
- SO_REUSEADDR on both the dashboard and per-agent web UI binds
via tokio::net::TcpSocket. operator hit 12 retries failing on
manager :8000 — REUSEADDR handles the TIME_WAIT case cleanly
without a new dep; retry still covers the genuine
process-still-alive overlap.
todo: drops the model-override entry (shipped); adds two new
items — model persistence (optional, future), and custom
per-agent MCP tools (groundwork for moving bitburner-agent into
hyperhive).
recv-with-timeout is strictly better than a fixed sleep because it
wakes instantly on incoming messages. drop the half-written nap MCP
tool, raise the recv wait_seconds cap from 60s to 180s on both
agent and manager sockets.
prompts updated: agent.md + manager.md now spell out the pattern —
when there's nothing else useful to do, call recv with
wait_seconds=180 to park the turn; do NOT use Bash sleep for the
same purpose. todo drops the nap entry and the napping-state-badge
follow-up; both replaced by 'just use a long recv'.
new TurnState { Idle, Thinking, Compacting } on hive_ag3nt::events::Bus
with set_state + state_snapshot. the turn loops in hive-ag3nt and
hive-m1nd flip Thinking before drive_turn and Idle after; the
web_ui's /api/compact handler flips Compacting around compact_session.
per-agent /api/state grows turn_state + turn_state_since (unix
seconds). frontend prefers the server-reported state over the
client-derived one — setStateAbs takes the absolute since-time so
the 'last turn' chip reads the actual server-side duration instead
of the client's perceived gap between SSE events. SSE turn_start /
turn_end still drive state instantly between renders; /api/state
re-anchors on each turn_end refresh.
new compacting state gets its own purple badge with pulse
animation (mirrors thinking's amber). napping will slot in the
same way once the nap tool lands.
new GET /api/journal/{name}?unit=&lines= shells out journalctl -M
<container> -b --no-pager --output=short-iso --lines=<N> (cap 5000).
optional unit filter, restricted to hive-ag3nt.service /
hive-m1nd.service so the shell-out can't be coerced into reading
unrelated units. validates the container name against the live list
before invoking journalctl.
frontend renders a collapsed '↳ logs · <container>' details block
on each container row. expanding triggers a lazy fetch; refresh
button re-fetches; unit dropdown switches between the harness
service (default) and the full machine journal. output sits in a
24em-tall monospace pre, auto-scrolled to the bottom on fresh
fetch.
hive-c0re's systemd unit already runs as root, so journalctl has
the access it needs.
manager can pass ttl_seconds to ask_operator. on submit, host
stores deadline_at = now + ttl in operator_questions (new column,
migrated via existing pragma_table_info pattern), spawns a tokio
task that sleeps until the deadline then resolves the question with
answer '[expired]' and fires the same OperatorAnswered helper event.
already-resolved races no-op silently.
dashboard renders a '⏳ MM:SS' chip on the question row when
deadline_at is set. format collapses seconds → s, < 1h → m s, ≥ 1h
→ h m. heartbeat refresh (5s) keeps the chip current; the operator
sees it tick down.
manager prompt + mcp tool description updated. journald viewer per
container queued in todo (separate task).
new wire request AgentRequest::Recent { limit } / ManagerRequest::Recent
(plus matching responses with Vec<InboxRow>). InboxRow moved to
hive-sh4re so it lives on both surfaces without an internal-to-wire
conversion. host-side dispatch in agent_server / manager_server
calls broker.recent_for(name, limit).
per-agent web_ui /api/state grew an inbox: Vec<InboxRow> populated
via the same per-agent socket (best-effort; transport failure
returns empty). frontend renders as a collapsible <details> section
between the state row and the terminal — fmt timestamp / from /
body in a tight grid, capped at 16em scrollable. only visible when
there are rows.
title bar grows a '↑ DASHB04RD' link next to the rebuild button —
opens the host dashboard in a new tab so the operator can pivot
between agents without losing the live tail. uses the dashboardPort
already plumbed via /api/state.
state row picks up a 'last turn 12.3s' chip that fills in when
state transitions away from thinking. format: ms / s.s / m s.
hidden until the first turn completes.
new POST /cancel-question/{id} resolves a pending operator question
with the sentinel answer '[cancelled]' and fires the usual
HelperEvent::OperatorAnswered so the manager sees a terminal state
and can fall back. uses the same OperatorQuestions::answer path —
no special handling, the manager already has to deal with arbitrary
answer strings.
dashboard renders the cancel as a separate <form> below the main
qform so the answer-merge submit handler on the main form doesn't
inadvertently fire when the operator clicks cancel. confirm dialog
spells out what the manager will see.
ttl-based auto-cancel is still on the todo (would spawn a tokio task
per submitted question).
Write and Edit tool_use rows used to render as the bare file path. now
they're collapsed <details> blocks with the actual change inside —
Write shows every content line prefixed '+', Edit shows old_string as
'-' lines then new_string as '+' lines. summary carries the file path
+ counts ('→ Edit /foo · -3 +5'). lines colored via diff-add /
diff-del / diff-ctx; click to expand the full body.
renderFileWriteEdit returns null for any other tool so the existing
flat-row path (fmtToolUse) is untouched.
retention is a host concern — agents have no business doing their
own cleanup, and a misbehaving harness could skip it. drop
spawn_events_vacuum from both hive-ag3nt and hive-m1nd, drop the
matching Bus::vacuum + EventStore::vacuum methods. new
hive_c0re::events_vacuum module sweeps every existing
agents/<name>/state/hyperhive-events.sqlite on the same hourly
cadence as the broker vacuum. same two-stage delete (older than 7
days, trim to 2000 newest). called from main alongside broker
vacuum.
also: server-side state badge entered into todo.md (today's badge
is derived client-side from sse, fine for idle/thinking but a
state machine that grows compacting/napping wants authoritative
status from the harness).
submitting R3QU3ST SP4WN immediately queues an approval that lands
in the very next list. the form belonged with that list, not at the
top of containers — the agent doesn't exist yet at form time anyway.
docs: claude.md grows operator_questions.rs / events.rs sqlite /
broker vacuum to the file map; web-ui shape lists the actual current
endpoint set (per-agent cancel/compact/history, dashboard tombstone
purge/answer/spawn); live-view section now describes the state
badge, sticky-bottom scroll, history backfill, and the terminal-
embedded prompt with its slash commands; dashboard-action-surface
rewritten around the new six-section page (containers / kept-state /
questions / inbox / approvals / message-flow) and the two-line
container row. new 'persistence + retention' section documenting both
sqlite databases and their vacuum cadences. readme picks up the new
mgr mcp surface (start/restart/ask_operator) + operator-side
features list + ask_operator answer flow.
todo trimmed of shipped items (bigger terminal / sticky scroll /
cancel button / /compact trigger / /cancel command). new entry for
the two-step spawn-with-preconfig flow.
hive_ag3nt::events::Bus replaces its in-memory VecDeque with a sqlite-
backed store at /state/hyperhive-events.sqlite (overridable via
HYPERHIVE_EVENTS_DB). emit() inserts a row; history() reads back the
most recent 2000 events. survives harness restart now — operator reload
mid-investigation no longer wipes the trail.
vacuum runs hourly (immediate first sweep): drop rows older than 7
days, then trim to 2000 newest. two-stage so a quiet agent keeps a
useful tail and a chatty one stays bounded. wired into both
hive-ag3nt and hive-m1nd via spawn_events_vacuum.
if the db open fails (e.g. no /state mount in dev), Bus runs in
no-store mode — events still broadcast, just nothing persisted.
undelivered rows are always kept regardless of age (still in flight).
sweep runs immediately on serve start then every hour. logs row count
when non-zero. keep_secs is hard-coded for now (30 days); can be
config-driven later if a host wants to retain more / less for audit.
drop the one-shot send/recv/kill/start/restart/request-spawn/request-
apply-commit subcommands from both in-container binaries. they were
debug-only — the host admin socket (`hive-c0re ...`) exposes the
same verbs and the manager mcp surface covers the rest from inside
claude. now each binary's --help shows just `serve` and `mcp`,
which are the only commands either is meant to be started with.
removes the `one_shot` helper and the `render` / `check` glue.
new --purge flag on the destroy verb (cli + admin socket + dashboard).
default destroy still keeps /var/lib/hyperhive/{agents,applied}/<name>/
so recreating with the same name reuses prior config + creds.
with --purge, both dirs go too (config history, claude creds, /state/
notes). no undo. dashboard adds a separate PURG3 button with an
explicit confirmation copy; the existing DESTR0Y button keeps the
soft semantics.
claude.md dashboard-action-surface section updated; todo entry
dropped.
new mcp tool on the manager surface that queues a question on the
dashboard and returns the question id immediately. operator submits an
answer via /answer-question/<id>; the dashboard fires
HelperEvent::OperatorAnswered { id, question, answer } into the manager
inbox so the next turn picks it up.
also: fix async-form button stuck on spinner after successful submit
(refreshState skipped re-rendering, so the button was never re-enabled).
