Read all 62 write-good.Passive hits across the 6 hand-written files in docs/tools/ (bash.md, lifecycle.md, forge.md, hivectl.md, matrix.md, scheduling.md) in context. Excludes forge-cli.md/hivectl-cli.md/ swarmctl-cli.md (57 more hits) -- those are CI-generated from the clap doc-comment strings in hive-forge/hivectl/swarmctl, freshness- checked against the committed markdown, so a fix there has to go in the Rust source and get regenerated -- separate batch. 33 rewritten to active, actor usually already established in the same paragraph or given via a 'by X' clause (the daemon, hive-c0re, hive-forge, hivectl, hyperhive itself, or an established module name like nix/agent-modules/mcp.nix). Several sibling-inconsistency fixes: a passive clause next to an already-active sibling stating the same fact (lifecycle.md's server-scoping sentence, forge.md's clone-derives sentence, hivectl.md's daemon-hashes-passwords sentence, matrix.md's daemon-upserts-a-todo paragraph). 29 left alone: no-X-is-Y / no-X-is-needed invariant idioms, config-state conditionals (whenever/when X is set/configured/given), requirement- list idiom, a false-positive tokenization (vale matching 'are read' inside 'read-only'), definitional facts about CLI/attrset structure with no real actor, hypothetical/counterfactual clauses describing a rejected design alternative, a forward-looking not-yet-real removal, compressed bullet-fragment conventions, and one deliberately-parallel sentence structure left both halves alone to avoid breaking the symmetry. Verified via vale on the 6 touched files, diffed against main's exact baseline (not just the Passive count): write-good.Passive 62 -> 29 exactly, every other category unchanged in count AND location (TooWordy 16, Microsoft.We 1, Microsoft.FirstPerson 1, and the same 4 pre-existing Microsoft.Contractions errors at the same 4 lines).
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Scheduling and diagnostics tools
scheduling tool group
Scheduled prompts fan a message body out to one or more agent inboxes
at a future time, optionally recurring. All scheduling ops go through
the operator approval queue (even self-targeted schedules — use
remind for unapproved self-wake). Authorization for read/cancel/edit
ops: you can act on schedules you own or any owned by a sub-agent in
your topology subtree.
request_schedule_prompt(targets, body, first_fire_at_unix, interval_seconds?, description?)
Queue an operator-approval for a scheduled prompt. On approve,
hive-c0re fans body out to each agent in targets at
first_fire_at_unix (Unix timestamp). Recurring when interval_seconds
is set, one-shot otherwise.
Catch-up clamp: if hive-c0re is down across multiple intervals, only
ONE delayed fire happens on resume (per recurring schedule). The
skipped-cycle count surfaces in the per-target last_result for
audit.
edit_schedule(id, body?, description?, interval_seconds?, next_fire_at_unix?, targets_add?, targets_remove?)
Partial-update a schedule. Pass only the fields to change; absent
fields are left alone. targets_add / targets_remove mutate the
recipient list in the same transaction — re-adding a previously
cancelled target drops its tombstone and starts fresh.
interval_seconds accepts positive values only via this tool (omit
to keep the existing cadence; pass a new positive value to change
it). Toggling recurring → one-shot (clearing the interval) is
operator-only via the dashboard PATCH endpoint. Refuses cancelled
rows (terminal state).
cancel_schedule(id, targets?)
Cancel a schedule. Omit targets / pass empty to cancel the whole
schedule; pass a list to cancel just those recipients (the schedule
autocancels when every target is removed).
fire_schedule_now(id)
Fire a scheduled prompt out of band immediately. Recurring schedules keep their cadence — the manual fire is additive. The manual fire consumes one-shot schedules and cancels them afterwards.
list_schedules()
Snapshot every schedule (active + cancelled-but-not-reaped): id,
owner, body, per-target last_fired_at + last_result,
next_fire_at_unix, interval_seconds. Use to look up an id before
cancelling, or to audit upcoming wake-ups across the swarm.
diagnostics tool group
get_logs(agent, lines?)
Fetch recent journal lines for a sub-agent container. Useful for diagnosing MCP-registration failures, startup crashes, plugin install errors, or any harness issue you can't see from inside the container.
Pass the plain logical agent name (for example "gui") — hive-c0re resolves
the machine name (h-<name>). lines defaults to 50, host-capped at 500.
read_host_journal capability
Capability-gated (not a tool group) — the operator enables it in the
P3RM1SS10NS C4P4B1L1T13S section. Unlike tool groups this isn't
configurable from agent.nix.
get_host_journal(unit?, container?, lines?, priority?, grep?, since?, until?)
Fetch recent lines from the host journal (requires
read_host_journal capability). Useful when you need visibility
outside your own container — infrastructure services, hive-c0re
lifecycle events, or another container's boot log.
unit— filter to a systemd unit (for examplehive-c0re.service).container— nspawn machine name verbatim. Agent containers use theh-<name>prefix (for exampleh-iris); infrastructure containers use their full name (for examplehive-ci,hive-forge,hive-matrix). Omit for the host journal. The gateway has no machine — its nginx runs on the host, so read it withunit: nginx.serviceand nocontainer.lines— how many lines to return (default 30, max 100).priority— minimum syslog level (emerg…debug).grep— regex matched against log message fields (journalctl --grep).since/until— time bounds (for example-1h,2024-01-01 12:00:00).
See also
remind(no-approval self-wake path) — documented indocs/turn-loop/.docs/agent-lifecycle/approvals.md— approval flow forrequest_schedule_prompt.