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`EnsureAgentIdentity` answered `AlreadyExists` whether it had added the
agent marker to an existing subject or done nothing at all, and the
controller discarded the answer outright. So the one case worth telling
a human about — a subject that was NOT an agent a moment ago — could not
survive the socket, let alone reach a log.

`Healed` is a variant rather than a field on `AlreadyExists` because a
field is ignorable: adding a variant makes every existing match fail to
compile until its author decides what a heal means. That is the property
the old shape lacked.

The store cannot tell a pre-marker agent identity from a human operator
account created without a group — both are `groups: []`. So this is
either the intended migration or an agent joining a person's live SSO
account, and only the caller has the context to tell them apart.

Gated by state/gate-3549-heal.sh (8 arms + mutation): the mutation
collapses Healed back and reddens the discriminating arm while leaving
the anti-noise arm green. The W' control asserts exactly one warn in the
whole run, so a build that warned on every routine ensure would fail.
2026-08-23 19:00:41 +02:00
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src feat(swarm-authelia-bridge): report a heal as its own outcome 2026-08-23 19:00:41 +02:00
Cargo.toml swarm-controller: extract jobq_metrics into its own hive-jobq-metrics crate 2026-08-19 18:10:22 +02:00
README.md docs(gateway): describe what is, not what changed 2026-08-11 18:09:51 +02:00

swarm-controller

The swarm-level daemon. Where hive-c0re owns the agents on one host, this owns what is true across hives — so a swarm runs one of them and most hives leave it off.

Opt-in per host via services.hyperhive.swarm.controller.enable, which is deliberately not derived from services.hyperhive.enable: turning it on is a statement about swarm topology, not about whether hyperhive is installed.

What it does today

Serves one /health endpoint and holds no state.

That is the whole intent of the first slice. The point is to make the unit real — service user, runtime and state directories, socket, nginx reachability — so the swarm-level surfaces that follow have somewhere to land. Inventing those surfaces before they are agreed would bake in a shape nobody chose. See #3066 and the hyperhive.swarm consolidation epic.

Why a unix socket, not a port

The hive-gateway's nginx is the only intended client and reaches the socket through a bind-mount. A listener that is never bound to an address cannot be reached from off-host by mistake.

The socket path is services.hyperhive.swarm.controller.socketPath, default /run/swarm-controller/controller.sock, exported to the process as SWARM_CONTROLLER_SOCKET.

⚠️ The socket's directory is its access control

The socket is 0666. It has to be: nginx runs as a different user and connect(2) needs write. This matches how hive-c0re publishes the per-agent sockets, and rests on the same argument — "the bind source dir is per-agent on host so blast radius is unchanged."

What keeps that safe is that the directory holds one socket. So:

Never point socketPath at a directory that carries anything else. /run/hyperhive above all — it holds host.sock, the host admin socket. Pointing nginx at that directory to reach this socket would put the admin socket within its reach too.

nginx is a host service, so nothing narrows what it can reach except the directory itself — that is the whole of the access control. A unit test pins the default path so a tidying edit fails instead of reviewing cleanly.

RuntimeDirectoryPreserve=yes and the daemon's stale-socket unlink on start are a pair: preserving the directory without the unlink means bind fails with EADDRINUSE after a restart.

Packaging

Built by the workspace derivation and extracted as its own package (nix build .#swarm-controller). Deliberately not in nix/packages' daemonBins — that list is the core stack and drives the bundle services.hyperhive.c0re.package points at, so folding this in would put a swarm-scoped service into every hive's closure.