# hyperhive — claude entry point

Hey claude. This is your starting page. The detailed docs live in
[`docs/`](docs/) and are written for humans + you both — read them
when you need depth on a subsystem. This file is the index.

- High-level project intro: **[README.md](README.md)**.
- Open work + backlog: the **[forge issue
  tracker](http://localhost:3000/hyperhive/hyperhive/issues)**.
- Operator/agent trust-boundary design:
  **[docs/boundary.md](docs/boundary.md)** (`area:ops` issues
  for the deployment/gateway/privsep work).
- Agent trust model (trust boundary, prompt-injection threat model,
  capability = accepted risk), credential isolation + sandbox threat model:
  **[docs/security.md](docs/security.md)**.

## Repo map

One line per crate / top-level dir. **Each module's authoritative,
always-current description lives in its own `//!` doc-comment** —
`grep`/read the module when you need detail. This index is kept
deliberately lean: it auto-loads into every turn's context, and a
hand-maintained per-file tree drifts out of sync with the code.

### Rust workspace (`Cargo.toml` members)

- **`hive-c0re/`** — host daemon (runs as the unprivileged `hive-core`
  user). `src/main.rs` is the `hive-c0re` binary — **daemon-only**
  (`serve` + the periodic vacuum/sweep loops); the operator CLI lives in
  the separate `hivectl` crate, which talks to the daemon over the host
  admin socket. Owns the sqlite broker, approval + question + reminder +
  schedule queues, the meta flake, lifecycle (`nixos-container`
  shellouts), gateway / forge / matrix provisioning, per-container stats,
  and the axum operator dashboard (`dashboard.rs`). Largest crate.
- **`hivectl/`** — standalone operator CLI (`hivectl` binary). Talks to
  the `hive-c0re` daemon over the host admin socket (`hive-host-sock`
  wire types) — does NOT link `hive-c0re`. Verbs: `list-agents`,
  `agent <name> <spawn|kill|destroy|rebuild|restart|set-parent|choom|
  watch|…>`, `approvals <pending|approve|deny>`, `forge`/`matrix`/
  `github`/`gateway` provisioning, `stop`/`start`, `wg`/`peer-config`.
- **`hive-agent/`**, **`hive-agent-mcp/`** —
  in-container harness, two sibling crates for every agent (not a
  single `hive-ag3nt/` dir — that's the runtime/binary-family nickname,
  not a directory).
- **`hive-agent/`** — the serve-loop binary: turn-loop *policy* layer
  (`turn.rs`) over the `hive-claude` driver, per-agent web UI (`web_ui/`
  module dir), event + turn-stats sqlite sinks, login flow, system-prompt
  renderer.
- **`hive-agent-mcp/`** — the embedded MCP server (long-lived
  streamable-http listener, `hive-mcp-http` systemd unit) + its claude
  launch-config layer (tool-group/capability → `--allowedTools`,
  `--mcp-config` render).
- **`hive-claude/`** — reusable, app-agnostic driver for headless
  `claude --print`: spawns the CLI, streams + classifies stream-json,
  parses per-turn `Telemetry`, and drives a durable self-compacting
  `InfiniteSession` (name + `SessionStore` + `CompactionPolicy`). Uses
  `thiserror` (it's a library); the `hive-*` binaries consume it with
  `anyhow`. See `hive-claude/README.md`.
- **`hive-priv/`** — minimal root privileged-helper, socket-activated at
  `/run/hive/priv.sock`; performs the few root operations (bind-mount
  edits, nsenter) the unprivileged `hive-c0re` delegates to it. See
  `docs/boundary.md`.
- **`hive-forge/`** — `hive-forge` Forgejo CLI wrapper; one module per
  verb under `src/verbs/`.
- **`hive-forge-notify/`** — per-agent notification poller daemons; turns
  unread notification threads into todos on the harness's in-agent
  socket. Two binaries from one crate: `hive-forge-notify` (the hive's
  Forgejo) and `hive-github-notify` (github.com, installed by
  `nix/agent-modules/github.nix`). Was a task inside the `hive-agent`
  serve loop; own process since it needs nothing else from the harness.
- **`hive-matrix-mcp/`** — per-agent matrix-sdk daemon
  (`hive-matrix-daemon`); serves its MCP tools (`send_message`,
  `read_room`, …) directly over streamable-http (no stdio bridge),
  same shape as `hive-bash-mcp`.
- **`hive-bash-mcp/`** — per-agent bash-task runner daemon
  (`hive-bash-daemon`); serves its MCP tools (`run`/`status`/`kill`)
  directly over streamable-http (no stdio bridge), writes task files
  under `/harness/bash-tasks/`, and records the favorite-tools
  `bash_commands` stat into turn-stats.sqlite.
- **`hive-sh4re/`** — shared wire types (Agent / Manager request +
  response, `Message`, `Approval`, `HelperEvent`) used across the unix
  sockets. Host-admin-socket and hive-priv-socket wire types have been
  split out into their own crates (below) so `hivectl` and `hive-priv`
  don't need to pull in the rest of `hive-sh4re`.
- **`hive-host-sock/`** — wire types for the host admin socket
  (`/run/hyperhive/host.sock`), the protocol `hivectl` speaks to
  `hive-c0re`. Split out of `hive-sh4re` so a standalone `hivectl` only
  depends on this protocol crate, not the whole daemon crate.
- **`hive-priv-sock/`** — wire types for the `hive-priv` privileged-helper
  socket (`/run/hive/priv.sock`), shared by `hive-priv` (server) and
  `hive-c0re` (client). Also split out of `hive-sh4re`.
- **`hive-sock-client/`** — the shared JSON-line-over-unix-socket client
  every daemon uses to talk to a hyperhive socket. Generic over the
  request/response types, so the host-served control socket and the
  harness's in-agent socket both use it with their own wire-type crates.
  Retry is a policy value (`Retry::None` for callers already inside a poll
  loop, `Retry::RideOutRestart` for callers with no natural retry), and
  the response is either decoded (`request`) or drained (`notify`).
  Deliberately separate from the `*-sock` crates — those stay
  dependency-free wire types.
- **`hive-metric/`** — small CLI to push a single labeled metric to the
  OTEL collector via the OpenTelemetry Rust SDK / OTLP HTTP exporter.

### Other top-level dirs

- **`frontend/`** — npm workspaces → static dashboard + per-agent UI
  dist, built hermetically by `nix/packages/frontend.nix`. Packages:
  `shared` (terminal pane + Catppuccin palette), `dashboard` (the
  operator SPA), `agent` (the default per-container UI).
- **`nix/`** — `host-modules/` (the host stack: hyperhive core options,
  `hive-{c0re,priv,forge,gateway,matrix,network,tls,ci}`, otel, swarm),
  `agent-modules/` (the per-agent harness feature modules),
  `templates/{agent,ruth}.nix` (container entry points), `packages/`
  (flake package outputs), `docs/` (the options-doc derivation), plus
  `sources.nix` / `rust.nix` / `checks.nix` / `devshell.nix` /
  `treefmt.nix` behind the thin `flake.nix`.
- **`docs/`** — subsystem reference docs (see *Reading paths* below).
- **`branding/`**, **`scripts/`** — static assets + helper scripts.

## Reading paths

Pick the doc that matches your task. None depend on the others —
read them à la carte.

- **"How do I bring a fresh hive online (first-run hivectl
  bootstrap)?"** → [`docs/setup.md`](docs/setup.md).
- **"What does the dashboard look like?"** →
  [`docs/web-ui.md`](docs/web-ui.md) (index; sub-pages:
  [`shape`](docs/web-ui/shape.md),
  [`dashboard`](docs/web-ui/dashboard.md),
  [`agent`](docs/web-ui/agent.md)).
- **"How does the per-agent terminal classify + colour
  events?"** → [`docs/terminal-rendering.md`](docs/terminal-rendering.md).
- **"How does claude get its prompt and what tools does it have?"** →
  [`docs/turn-loop.md`](docs/turn-loop.md) (index: the loop, binary shape,
  turn outcomes; sub-pages:
  [`claude-invocation`](docs/turn-loop/claude-invocation.md),
  [`config`](docs/turn-loop/config.md), [`mcp`](docs/turn-loop/mcp.md)).
- **"How do config changes flow from manager to operator to
  container?"** → [`docs/approvals.md`](docs/approvals.md).
- **"What state survives destroy / purge / restart?"** →
  [`docs/persistence.md`](docs/persistence.md).
- **"Naming, commit style, wire protocol, the `data-async`
  pattern."** → [`docs/conventions.md`](docs/conventions.md).
- **"Why does the nspawn flag look like that?"** →
  [`docs/gotchas.md`](docs/gotchas.md).
- **"What nginx vhosts does the gateway serve? How does matrix
  discovery work?"** → [`docs/gateway.md`](docs/gateway.md).
- **"How do per-agent forge accounts work? What does forge_notify
  poll + how does it format wake messages?"** →
  [`docs/forge.md`](docs/forge.md).
- **"What verbs does `hive-forge` support? How do I post a comment,
  upload an attachment, manage subscriptions?"** →
  [`docs/tools/forge.md`](docs/tools/forge.md).
- **"What does `hivectl` do? How do I provision a forge/matrix account,
  manage gateway users, restart containers, or drop into an agent shell?"** →
  [`docs/tools/hivectl.md`](docs/tools/hivectl.md).
- **"How does the matrix-tuwunel container work? What about
  fluffychat-web and per-agent matrix accounts?"** →
  [`docs/matrix.md`](docs/matrix.md).
- **"How do I give an agent a GitHub account (`gh` + `git push`)?
  How is the PAT injected?"** → [`docs/github.md`](docs/github.md).
- **"How does DNS resolution work in agent containers? What's the
  bridge network for?"** → [`docs/network.md`](docs/network.md).
- **"How do I connect two hives into a swarm? How do I declare peer
  hives and configure TLS trust?"** →
  [`docs/swarm.md`](docs/swarm.md).
- **"Where do agent snapshots go? How does the swarm's `btrfs receive`
  endpoint authenticate a pushing hive, and what does a snapshot
  actually contain?"** →
  [`docs/snapshot-store.md`](docs/snapshot-store.md).
- **"How does the rebuild queue work? What are queue kinds and sources?"** →
  [`docs/coordinator.md`](docs/coordinator.md).
- **"How does the CI runner work? What's the auto-registration flow?"** →
  [`docs/ci.md`](docs/ci.md).
- **"What is `/knowledge`? How does the hive-wide knowledge repo sync,
  and how do I contribute a document?"** →
  [`docs/knowledge.md`](docs/knowledge.md).
- **"How do I export Claude Code metrics (tokens, cost, tool calls) to
  a Prometheus/Grafana collector? What OTEL options are available?"** →
  [`docs/observability.md`](docs/observability.md).

## Conventions & process

The docs below own the details — this section just points at them.

- **Commit style, naming, identity, reconcile verb:** →
  [`docs/conventions.md`](docs/conventions.md).
- **Never add `#[allow(clippy::…)]`** — fix the lint instead (extract a
  helper, add backticks, etc.). Details + worked examples: →
  [`docs/conventions.md`](docs/conventions.md#building--local-checks).
- **NixOS / nspawn quirks** (bind mounts, conf flags, etc.): →
  [`docs/gotchas.md`](docs/gotchas.md).
- **Turn loop, sentinels (rate-limit, auth-failed), context
  window:** → [`docs/turn-loop.md`](docs/turn-loop.md).
- **Two-step spawn, approval flow, flake.lock validation:** →
  [`docs/approvals.md`](docs/approvals.md).
- **Pre-push lint hook** (catches tracker-tag and comment-block failures
  before CI does — install once per clone):
  `ln -sf ../../scripts/pre-push .git/hooks/pre-push`