hyperhive/CLAUDE.md
atlas 7a826f9ee2 refactor(sock): one socket client, retry as a policy value
Six places in the tree hand-rolled the same connect / write one JSON
line / read one JSON line back. Two of them — the harness serve loop's
client and the MCP server's — were byte-identical apart from a six-line
wrapper, ~145 lines of literal copy-paste. The other four each
reimplemented a subset, and the subsets had drifted: some named the
socket path in their errors and some did not, one classified transient
against fatal failures and the rest retried nothing at all, two drained
the response and two decoded it.

That duplication was defended when the daemons were split out, on the
grounds that a daemon's socket etiquette should stay visible in the
crate that depends on it. The etiquette genuinely does differ. The code
does not, and five copies is where "each daemon documents its own
etiquette" stops paying for itself.

`hive-sock-client` now owns the transport once, generic over the
request and response types so it is protocol-agnostic: the host-served
control socket and the harness's in-agent socket both use it with their
own wire-type crates. The two real differences become values instead of
forks. Retry is `Retry::RideOutRestart` (2/4/8/16/30s, sized to ride out
a service restart) for callers with no natural retry of their own, or
`Retry::None` for callers already inside a poll loop where the poll
interval is the retry — and the reason each caller picked one is a
comment at the call site rather than a reimplementation. The response is
either decoded (`request`) or half-closed and drained (`notify`, where
the drain exists so the server's write-back doesn't land on a closed
socket). Whether a failure propagates or is logged and swallowed stays
at the call site, because that is the caller's choice and not a property
of the transport.

Errors always name the socket path now, everywhere. That detail is
load-bearing: a permission problem on a socket that reads as "is the
daemon running?" sends the operator to fix the wrong thing.

The transient-against-fatal enum is gone rather than moved. Serialising
happens before the retry loop and deserialising after it, so only
connect, I/O and short-read failures can reach the loop at all — a
deterministic failure is now unretryable by construction instead of by
classification.

It is deliberately a new crate and not part of `hive-agent-sock`. The
`*-sock` crates are pure wire types by convention — `hive-agent-sock`
depends on serde and nothing else — and the two largest copies talk to
the host socket, whose types live in a different crate entirely. A
transport in either wire-type crate would drag tokio into it and point
the wrong way besides.

No wire-format change: same JSON line in, same line out.
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# 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: `agents <spawn|kill|
destroy|rebuild|restart|list|set-parent|…>`, `approvals <pending|
approve|deny>`, `forge`/`matrix`/`github`/`gateway` provisioning,
`choom`, `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 Forgejo notification poller daemon
(`hive-forge-notify`); turns unread notification threads into todos on
the harness's in-agent socket. 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).
- **"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`