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Cross-hive trust was O(n²) hand-pinning: every hive had to name every peer's CA. A swarm root makes it O(1) — trust the root once and every present and future peer validates. The root is generated by a new `swarm-ca` unit on a single-host swarm and operator-provided otherwise; `swarm.ca.autoConfigure` picks between them and derives its default from `swarm.peers` being empty, so "all on one host" is read off the deployment rather than remembered. Both modes produce the same artifacts in the same places, so splitting hosts later is moving the service dirs, not switching code paths. The root key never enters the nix store, and the root is never regenerated automatically — replacing it invalidates every peer at once. Each hive CA carries `nameConstraints` pinned to that hive's domain, so a leaked hive CA can only mint names inside its own subdomain, enforced by verifiers rather than by convention. `ca.pem` was serving as both the issuer and the anchor consumers trust; those are the same file only while it is self-signed. openssl will not terminate a chain at a trusted cert that isn't self-signed (rustls and Go will), so the promotion would have broken some consumers and not others. `hive-tls-ca` now also writes `trust-bundle.pem` — the hive CA plus whatever it is rooted at — and every anchor consumer reads that: agents, the CI and forge containers, and the peer-config recipe. On a hive with no swarm root the bundle is just that CA, so nothing consuming it needs a mode to branch on. |
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| conventions.md | ||
| coordinator.md | ||
| forge.md | ||
| gateway.md | ||
| github.md | ||
| gotchas.md | ||
| knowledge.md | ||
| matrix.md | ||
| network.md | ||
| observability.md | ||
| persistence.md | ||
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| README.md | ||
| security.md | ||
| setup.md | ||
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hyperhive docs
Depth reference for hyperhive — the substrate, not the pitch (that's the
top-level README / website).
Every page here stands alone; pick the one matching your task rather than
reading top to bottom. For the auto-generated NixOS options reference
(every services.hyperhive.* / hyperhive.* option, host and agent), see
the options site instead —
this tree is prose, that one's generated straight from the module
declarations.
Getting started
- Bringing a fresh hive online? →
setup.md(first-runhivectlbootstrap). - What does the dashboard look like, and how do I use it? →
web-ui/— the operator-facing starting point; its own sub-pages (shape,dashboard,agent,css-vars) go deeper into implementation. - What tools does an agent (or the operator) have available? →
tools/—hivectl(yours) plus every agent's MCP tool surface (bash, forge, lifecycle, matrix, scheduling).
Dashboard & agent UI internals
- How does the per-agent terminal classify + colour events? →
terminal-rendering.md.
Turn loop, config, approvals
- How does claude get its prompt, and what tools does it have? →
turn-loop/— the loop, binary shape, turn outcomes; sub-pages:claude-invocation,config,mcp. - How do config changes flow from manager to operator to container? →
approvals.md(two-step spawn, approval state machine,flake.lockvalidation). - What state survives destroy / purge / restart? →
persistence.md.
Trust boundary & security
- What's the operator/agent trust boundary? What's a capability? →
boundary.md. - Agent trust model, prompt-injection threat model, credential
isolation? →
security.md. - Who can do what to whom — agent hierarchy and privilege? →
agent-hierarchy.md.
Accounts & integrations
- How do per-agent forge accounts work? What does
forge_notifypoll, and how does it format wake messages? →forge.md(the hive's own Forgejo);tools/forge.mdfor thehive-forgeCLI verbs agents actually call. - How does the matrix-tuwunel container work? Multiple accounts per
agent? →
matrix.md(the homeserver);tools/matrix.mdfor the MCP tool surface andhyperhive.matrixAccounts. - How do I give an agent a GitHub account (
gh+git push)? How is the PAT injected? →github.md. - What does
hivectldo? Provisioning, gateway users, container shells? →tools/hivectl.md(the curated guide);tools/hivectl-cli.mdfor the exhaustive, auto-generated flag reference.
Networking & swarms
- What nginx vhosts does the gateway serve? How does matrix
discovery work? →
gateway.md. - How does DNS resolution work in agent containers? What's the
bridge network for? →
network.md. - How do I connect two hives into a swarm? →
swarm.md(peer hives, TLS trust). - Where do agent snapshots go? How does the swarm's
btrfs receiveendpoint authenticate a pushing hive? →snapshot-store.md.
Scheduler, CI, observability
- How does the rebuild queue work? What are queue kinds and
sources? →
coordinator.md. - How does the CI runner work? What's the auto-registration flow? →
ci.md. - How do I export Claude Code metrics (tokens, cost, tool calls) to
Prometheus/Grafana? →
observability.md.
Process & conventions
- Naming, commit style, wire protocol, the
data-asyncpattern? →conventions.md. - Why does the nspawn flag look like that? →
gotchas.md(bind mounts, conf flags, other NixOS/nspawn quirks). - What is
/knowledge? How does the hive-wide knowledge repo sync, and how do I contribute a document? →knowledge.md.