Every prose and error-message reference to the moved options, including
two in hive-c0re/src/matrix.rs that omitted the services. prefix and so
read as the per-agent option. An error that names an option the operator
cannot find is worse than no hint.
The agents root is 0700 and owned by the daemon's user, so hivectl's
client-side existence guard hit EACCES on traversal for anyone not root.
It reported that as "this command needs root; re-run with sudo", which
turned three verbs' pre-flight check into a permission error about the
wrong thing: `choom`, `subvol upgrade` and `subvol snapshot create` all
failed at the guard rather than at whatever they actually needed.
The daemon runs as the owning user and already answers this question for
its own provisioning paths, so expose it on the host socket as
`AgentExists` and have hivectl ask. Operators reach that socket through
the `hive-admin` group, so the guard now works without sudo.
`choom` still needs root for `machinectl shell` — we ship no polkit rule
granting those actions — so it now checks the effective uid and says so
directly instead of failing later inside systemd's authorisation.
The hive applies one `agentCpuQuota` / `agentMemoryMax` to every
container. That's the right default and the wrong ceiling: a build-heavy
agent needs headroom the other twelve don't, and raising the hive-wide
value to suit it hands that headroom to everyone.
Adds a per-agent override, persisted host-side and resolved per-field
against the hive defaults.
Follows the existing `meta/*.json` pattern (`capabilities.json`,
`tool-groups.json`): a host-side map read by `hive-c0re`, staged and
committed in the meta repo so every change lands in the audit trail.
```json
{ "sock": { "cpu_quota": "400%", "memory_max": "8G" } }
```
Fallback is **per field**, not per agent: an entry with only
`memory_max` leaves that agent on the hive-wide CPU quota. Absent file,
absent agent and absent field all resolve to the hive default, so the
feature is inert until someone opts an agent in.
Unlike the other meta files this one is **not** injected into the
container — a limit is something done *to* an agent, not something it
reads about itself.
```
hivectl agents set-limits sock --cpu-quota 400% --memory-max 8G
hivectl agents set-limits sock --reset
```
Values are validated before they're persisted: they go into a systemd
drop-in verbatim, and a typo there makes the unit fail to *start* —
turning a fat-fingered quota into a container that won't come back.
The command is declarative: each call replaces the agent's whole entry.
That makes a forgotten flag a silent revert, so a bare `set-limits
<name>` is rejected at the clap layer and clearing needs an explicit
`--reset`.
`ContainerView` gains `cpu_quota` / `memory_max`, both always populated:
there's no "unset" state to render, only "same as everyone else". They
reflect what the drop-in *says* — what the next start will enforce — not
a live cgroup reading.
The write goes through `meta::commit_resource_limits` rather than the
bare setter, so it's staged and committed under `META_LOCK`. Writing
without committing would leave the meta working tree dirty for the next
`prepare_deploy` to trip over.
Docs: `persistence.md` (the new meta file, and why it isn't injected),
`tools/hivectl.md` (the prose guide), `tools/hivectl-cli.md`
(regenerated clap dump).
Closes: internal/requests issue 25
A paused agent keeps its container, its claude session and its
dashboard/todo servers up, but stops driving turns. Messages queue
unacked and are drained on resume.
The whole protocol is a single marker file, `<harness>/paused`. That
directory is already a bind-mount shared between host and container, so
both sides just stat the same path: the harness reads it to decide
whether to drive a turn, hive-c0re reads it to render the badge and
writes/removes it for `hivectl pause|resume`. No new wire protocol, no
container round-trip, and it is sticky across restarts by construction.
Not calling `recv_next` while paused *is* the queueing semantic, so
there is no fencing to get wrong: reminders buffer in their unbounded
channel, the todo `Notify` permit coalesces, and a `request_next_turn`
that raced the pause survives because the gate sits above
`self_continue.take()`.
Graceful stop is handled host-side rather than in the harness: a paused
agent provably has no turn in flight, so `run_signal` skips the fence
entirely instead of eating the full `GRACEFUL_STOP_TIMEOUT` waiting for
a checkpoint turn that will never run.
`paused` is reported on `ContainerView` / `AgentStatusRow` for the
dashboard, orthogonal to `running` and reported for stopped containers
too.
Closes: hyperhive/hyperhive issue 2271
The host admin socket `/run/hyperhive/host.sock` was `0660 root:root` (no
SocketGroup), so hivectl needed sudo. Group-own it by a new `hive-admin`
group and add a `services.hyperhive.c0re.adminUsers` allowlist: listed users
join `hive-admin` and drive hivectl without root.
- `SocketGroup = "hive-admin"`, `SocketMode = "0660"` on the hive-c0re.socket
unit.
- `/run/hyperhive` -> `0751` (traverse-only, no listing) so the group can reach
the socket path; the socket's own `0660 hive-admin` mode gates the
connection, and the per-agent subdirs keep their own restrictive perms.
- Empty `adminUsers` (the default) leaves `hive-admin` memberless -> root-only,
as before.
The admin socket is full hive control (spawn/kill/destroy/deploy), so
`adminUsers` is an explicit, opt-in trust grant. Documented in
docs/boundary.md (host admin socket access) + docs/tools/hivectl.md.
hivectl has verbs scattered across CLAUDE.md and domain docs (gateway.md
has the gateway subcommands, matrix.md has a brief mention) but no
single cheatsheet. Add docs/tools/hivectl.md covering all subcommands:
- forge create-user: provision/refresh agent or human forge accounts
- matrix create-user / sync-admin / promote-user / reset-password
- gateway create-user / delete-user / list-users (htpasswd management)
- agents restart / restart-all (container lifecycle via admin socket)
- choom <name> [--fresh]: interactive claude session in agent container
Also add a reading-path entry to CLAUDE.md pointing at the new file.
