# Shared scaffolding for every hyperhive harness container. # `../templates/agent.nix` and `../templates/ruth.nix` both import # agents use the same service unit regardless of which entry-point # they came from. # # This is the core module: container plumbing (boot/nix/nixpkgs), # base tooling, and the cross-cutting `hyperhive.icon` option. Each # feature lives in its own sibling module (imported below) that # declares its own `hyperhive.*` options + config. { pkgs, lib, config, # Flake inputs routed through _module.args by the agent flake.nix. # Default to {} so the module evaluates cleanly even when the agent # flake doesn't set up the routing pattern (e.g. during standalone # nixos-rebuild without a flake wrapper). flakeInputs ? { }, ... }: { imports = [ ./agent-service.nix ./bash-env.nix ./claude-settings.nix ./dashboard-links.nix ./docs.nix ./forge.nix ./frontend.nix ./github.nix ./matrix.nix ./mcp.nix ./network.nix ./packages.nix ./user.nix ./weston-vnc.nix (lib.mkRemovedOptionModule [ "hyperhive" "web" "useUnixSocket" ] '' Unix socket mode is always enabled for all agents. Remove the setting from your agent.nix. '') (lib.mkRemovedOptionModule [ "hyperhive" "allowedBashPatterns" ] '' The built-in Bash tool is fully disabled; agents use mcp__bash__run instead. Remove the setting from your agent.nix. '') ]; options.hyperhive.icon = lib.mkOption { type = lib.types.nullOr lib.types.path; default = null; example = lib.literalExpression "./icon.svg"; description = '' Path to an SVG file used as this agent's icon — shown on the dashboard and the per-agent web UI (header + favicon). Commit the SVG into the agent's config repo next to `agent.nix` and reference it as a relative path (`./icon.svg`). When null (the default) the agent falls back to the shared hyperhive logo. The harness serves the icon (configured or default) at `GET /icon` on the per-agent web port. ''; }; config = { assertions = [ # Guard the inputs-routed-as-output pattern: the agent flake.nix is # expected to set `_module.args.flakeInputs = builtins.removeAttrs inputs ["self"]`. # If `self` leaks into flakeInputs the agent gets a spurious attrset # entry that can shadow real inputs and is almost certainly a bug. # Guard with `or {}` so standalone evaluation stays clean when # flakeInputs is absent from _module.args. { assertion = !(builtins.hasAttr "self" (config._module.args.flakeInputs or { })); message = '' hyperhive: `flakeInputs` must not contain "self". In your agent flake.nix, use: _module.args.flakeInputs = builtins.removeAttrs inputs [ "self" ]; ''; } # hyperhive.icon must reference an SVG file when set. { assertion = config.hyperhive.icon == null || lib.hasSuffix ".svg" (toString config.hyperhive.icon); message = "hyperhive.icon must point to an .svg file"; } ]; # Operator-set per-agent icon (hyperhive.icon). When configured, the # SVG lands at /etc/hyperhive/icon.svg; the harness serves it at # GET /icon, falling back to the bundled hyperhive logo when absent. # Consumed by forge-avatar-sync (./forge.nix) and the matrix avatar # sync (./matrix.nix) too. environment.etc."hyperhive/icon.svg" = lib.mkIf (config.hyperhive.icon != null) { source = config.hyperhive.icon; }; boot.isNspawnContainer = true; # Use a disk-backed /tmp instead of the default tmpfs so large scratch # writes (nix-develop shells, cargo build dirs, multi-GB downloads) land # on disk rather than eating container RAM. The tmpfs default mounts # ~3.2 GB of RAM per container; disk-backed /tmp is effectively unlimited # and cheaper for agents that do heavy build work. # # cleanOnBoot defaults to false in nixpkgs — set it explicitly so /tmp is # cleared on each container start (D! tmpfiles rule), preserving the # ephemeral-per-boot semantics agents expect from a tmpfs /tmp, just # without the RAM cost. boot.tmp.useTmpfs = false; boot.tmp.cleanOnBoot = true; # Every agent gets flakes + the modern `nix` CLI out of the box. # Equivalent to passing `--extra-experimental-features 'nix-command # flakes'` on every invocation. Agents shell out to `nix build` / # `nix flake` constantly (devshells, ad-hoc evals, fetching their # own MCP-server flakes); without this they hit the "experimental # feature not enabled" wall on the first try. nix.settings.experimental-features = [ "nix-command" "flakes" ]; # `lib.mkForce` overrides nixpkgs's normal-priority `false` so # in-container `nix build` invocations fall back to unsandboxed # local builds rather than failing on the missing user-namespace. # See `docs/gotchas.md::Containerized nix-daemon needs # sandbox-fallback = true` + `docs/security.md` for the rationale. # # Note: with NIX_REMOTE=daemon below this becomes a no-op for the # common case — daemon-routed builds run on the host where sandboxing # works. It stays as a belt-and-suspenders fallback for any context # that bypasses the daemon (e.g. direct nix-store invocations). nix.settings.sandbox-fallback = lib.mkForce true; # Route ALL nix invocations in this container through the host # nix-daemon socket, regardless of whether the caller is root or # non-root. Without this, root contexts (PID 1, systemd services # running as root) default to store=auto which resolves to the LOCAL # store — bypassing the shared daemon, its remote builders, and the # host's prebuilt derivation cache, causing spurious full rebuilds. # # systemd.globalEnvironment sets DefaultEnvironment in systemd.conf, # so every unit started by PID 1 inherits NIX_REMOTE=daemon. # Non-root nix clients already default to the daemon socket, so this # is a no-op for them; it only matters for root services that would # otherwise silently use the local store. systemd.globalEnvironment.NIX_REMOTE = "daemon"; # `claude-code` is unfree. Each per-agent container's nixosConfiguration # evaluates its own `nixpkgs` instance, so the operator's host-level # `nixpkgs.config.allowUnfreePredicate` does not propagate into here — # we have to allow it inside the container's config as well. nixpkgs.config.allowUnfreePredicate = pkg: builtins.elem (pkgs.lib.getName pkg) [ "claude-code" ]; # Core tooling every agent gets. Per-bin split packages (see # nix/packages/default.nix + ./packages.nix) rather than the full # `hyperhive` bundle — that bundle also carries `hivectl` (a # host-admin CLI that dials the *host* admin socket — useless and # unreachable from inside a container — wrapped with # `wireguard-tools` for `hivectl wg`). The daemon/harness/MCP bins # the harness execs (hive-agent{,-mcp}, hive-bash-daemon, # hive-matrix-daemon, hive-bash-mcp, hive-matrix-mcp) are wired via # their own ExecStart/command lines in the sibling modules — they # don't need to be on PATH too. Only these two are actually looked # up on PATH by claude/shell code inside the container: # `hive-agent-wake` (external wake CLI, docs/turn-loop/mcp.md) and # `hive-metric` (agent-emitted custom metrics CLI, # docs/observability.md). environment.systemPackages = [ config.hyperhive.packages.hive-agent-wake config.hyperhive.packages.hive-metric ] ++ (with pkgs; [ claude-code bashInteractive coreutils-full # procps for pkill — used by the web UI's /api/cancel to SIGINT the # in-flight claude turn. procps # jq: JSON processing in shell — useful for parsing API responses, # forge REST calls, sqlite output, etc. jq # curl: HTTP client for forge REST API and other web requests. curl ]); # HIVE_ASSETS_DIR points at the project's static runtime assets # (branding + claude prompts; see `nix/packages/assets.nix`). Set # here so both the harness binary and any user-shell `cargo run` # inside the container resolve them from the same path. # SHELL must be set so claude's Bash tool finds a POSIX shell. # HIVE_CONTEXT_WINDOW_TOKENS_* are injected by the meta flake from the # host-level `services.hyperhive.c0re.contextWindowTokens` option — not # set here. environment.variables = { HIVE_ASSETS_DIR = "${config.hyperhive.packages.assets}/share/hyperhive"; SHELL = "${pkgs.bashInteractive}/bin/bash"; # Route interactive-shell nix invocations through the host daemon. # Redundant with /etc/profile.d/nix-daemon.sh but ensures it's set # regardless of which profile files are sourced. NIX_REMOTE = "daemon"; }; # Git is needed by claude's Bash tool (for the agent <-> manager config # request flow) and by hive-c0re's own setup_applied / setup_proposed. # The per-agent `applied//flake.nix` overrides `user.name` and # `user.email` with the agent's identity — values here are `mkDefault` # so the per-agent override wins without needing `mkForce`. programs.git = { enable = true; config = { user = { name = lib.mkDefault "hyperhive"; email = lib.mkDefault "hyperhive@local"; }; init.defaultBranch = lib.mkDefault "main"; }; }; system.stateVersion = "25.11"; }; }