The identity half of giving an agent container its own way into the store.
The operator's ruling: minting an identity the agent itself can authenticate
with takes the delivery from four pieces (mint -> store -> pass -> use) to
three (mint -> store -> use), and makes the agent that much less dependent on
the hive it runs on — but only if the grant behind that identity is scoped to
that agent's secrets, read-only. Otherwise it is a second way to be everyone.
So `render_agent` is a SIBLING of `render`, not a parameter added to it. A
hive's document is wide in two of its kinds on purpose (the module header says
why each of those is a decision), and none of that breadth transfers: an
agent's path names the agent, so scoping to it costs nothing and drifts
nowhere, and an agent has no business with a service's OIDC client secret,
another agent's credentials, a hive's, or the controller's. The tests say that
as an exhaustive check over `path::Kind` rather than as a list of paths, so a
kind added later cannot be granted here by a renderer nobody re-read.
`render`'s own text is untouched, and its byte-for-byte assertion is left
exactly as it stands: a hive can still read every agent's secrets, and closing
that is the separate decision its doc comment already prices.
The object name is `hive-agent-<agent>`, one string for the policy, the
cert-auth role and the certificate subject. Inside `hive-` rather than beside
it because `sys/policies/acl/hive-*` and `auth/cert/certs/hive-*` are the whole
of what the controller may create, and the controller is the only principal
that learns an agent exists — at no cost in authority, since it already holds
create/update on `secret/data/swarm/agents/*`. It still cannot collide with
`hive-<hive>`: that needs a hive named `agent-<agent>`, and a hive name may not
contain `agent` (nix/reserved-hive-fragments.nix, the reservation the queue's
`hive-<name>-agent` client ids already lean on). A test spells that collision
out and fails if the prefix moves somewhere that guard does not cover.
Rendering only. Nothing mints a leaf, writes a role or delivers a certificate
yet, and nothing calls either new function — because nothing at the module
layer knows which agents exist: hive-c0re creates them at runtime and renders
them into its own meta flake, which is why even the gateway's per-agent vhosts
are a generated conf rather than nix. Issuance therefore has to be runtime, and
that design is the operator's to approve before it is built.
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