hyperhive/CLAUDE.md
atlas 246c9471b1 refactor(hive-agent): split the forge notification poller into its own crate
The poller was a `tokio::spawn` inside the `hive-agent` serve loop. It
never needed anything from that loop except a socket path, so being
in-process bought nothing and cost two things: a harness restart took
forge notifications down with it, and the whole forge/HTTP dependency
tree was linked into the serve-loop binary.

It is now `hive-forge-notify`, a per-agent daemon with its own systemd
unit, a sibling of `hive-bash-daemon` and `hive-matrix-daemon`. Same
contract as those two: it reaches the harness only by upserting todos on
the in-agent socket, and nowhere else.

The module moves verbatim (`notify.rs`) — the formatters, the activation
gates, the dedupe map and all 33 tests are unchanged. Only the socket
call sites are rewritten, onto a small local `todo_client` rather than
the harness's. That mirrors what both sibling daemons already do, and
the etiquette differs on purpose: the harness's client carries a 60s
backoff schedule sized to ride out a hive-c0re restart, which its
callers need because they have no retry of their own. This poller's two
call sites both sit inside the 30s poll loop and both treat a failure as
"leave the thread unread, try next tick", so the poll interval already
is the retry; a second backoff would only stack sleeps and delay the
rest of the batch.

The unit is `Restart=on-failure`, not `always`. An agent with no forge
account is a supported configuration and the poller reports it by
logging why and exiting 0 — under `always` that clean exit would be a
restart loop on every forge-less agent.

`forgejo-api`, `url` and `time` drop out of `hive-agent`'s dependencies
with the module.

Also corrects docs that outlived the code they described: the persisted
`forge_cursor` field is long gone (forge's own read-state is the durable
record of what has been delivered), but `docs/persistence.md` and the
`harness_state` module docs still documented it as live.
2026-07-26 21:30:29 +02:00

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hyperhive — claude entry point

Hey claude. This is your starting page. The detailed docs live in 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.
  • Open work + backlog: the forge issue tracker.
  • Operator/agent trust-boundary design: 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.

Repo map

One line per crate / top-level dir. Each module's authoritative, always-current description lives in its own //! doc-commentgrep/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-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.
  • "What does the dashboard look like?"docs/web-ui.md (index; sub-pages: shape, dashboard, agent).
  • "How does the per-agent terminal classify + colour events?"docs/terminal-rendering.md.
  • "How does claude get its prompt and what tools does it have?"docs/turn-loop.md (index: the loop, binary shape, turn outcomes; sub-pages: claude-invocation, config, mcp).
  • "How do config changes flow from manager to operator to container?"docs/approvals.md.
  • "What state survives destroy / purge / restart?"docs/persistence.md.
  • "Naming, commit style, wire protocol, the data-async pattern."docs/conventions.md.
  • "Why does the nspawn flag look like that?"docs/gotchas.md.
  • "What nginx vhosts does the gateway serve? How does matrix discovery work?"docs/gateway.md.
  • "How do per-agent forge accounts work? What does forge_notify poll + how does it format wake messages?"docs/forge.md.
  • "What verbs does hive-forge support? How do I post a comment, upload an attachment, manage subscriptions?"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.
  • "How does the matrix-tuwunel container work? What about fluffychat-web and per-agent matrix accounts?"docs/matrix.md.
  • "How do I give an agent a GitHub account (gh + git push)? How is the PAT injected?"docs/github.md.
  • "How does DNS resolution work in agent containers? What's the bridge network for?"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.
  • "How does the rebuild queue work? What are queue kinds and sources?"docs/coordinator.md.
  • "How does the CI runner work? What's the auto-registration flow?"docs/ci.md.
  • "What is /knowledge? How does the hive-wide knowledge repo sync, and how do I contribute a document?"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.

Conventions & process

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

  • Commit style, naming, identity, reconcile verb:docs/conventions.md.
  • Never add #[allow(clippy::…)] — fix the lint instead (extract a helper, add backticks, etc.). Details + worked examples: → docs/conventions.md.
  • NixOS / nspawn quirks (bind mounts, conf flags, etc.): → docs/gotchas.md.
  • Turn loop, sentinels (rate-limit, auth-failed), context window:docs/turn-loop.md.
  • Two-step spawn, approval flow, flake.lock validation: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