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swarm/README.md opens with the swarm and its control plane; hive identity and the directory follow as the substrate. Upgrade notes move into a <details> block, the per-agent queue publishing detail into another, and the one-paragraph pointer sections collapse into a link list. Fact fixes, checked against origin/main: - an empty swarm.hives fails eval (swarm.nix:341-354); it does not mean "not in a swarm" - swarm.domain is required with a hive (hive-network.nix:156,188), hiveName with a hive, store or homeserver (hyperhive.nix:161-166) - the matrix container trusts the hive's trust-bundle.pem at runtime under self-signed certs (hive-matrix.nix:1046-1052, lib/hive-ca-trust.nix:76-85) - singleHostSwarm also defaults the controller, localHostsEntry, the nats callout keys and the bao bootstrap token path (local-defaults.nix:72-129) - swarm-controller serves far more than /health: roster, wanted state, job graph, agent creation and credential mints (main.rs:2874-2899) - swarmctl user add needs --email for the forge account and refuses an existing user (setup.md:67-71, swarmctl/src/main.rs:425-430); document agent mint-identity and mint-forge-token - agent creation also mints store identity, forge token and matrix account, and declares the agent paused (main.rs:1822-1920, 247-248) Refs #3902
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# swarm-controller
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The **swarm-level** daemon. Where `hive-c0re` owns the agents on one host, this
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owns what is true _across_ hives — so a swarm runs one of them and most hives
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leave it off.
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Opt-in per host via `services.hyperhive.deploy.swarm-controller.enable`, which is
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deliberately **not** derived from
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`services.hyperhive.deploy.hive-controller.enable`: turning it on is a statement
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about swarm topology, not about whether this host runs a hive.
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## What it does
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The swarm's control plane. The swarm UI and `swarmctl` are its clients.
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- **Hive directory** — serves `swarm.hives` (`GET /api/hives`) and what each
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hive last published about itself (`GET /api/hives/status`).
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- **Agent roster and wanted state** — every agent the swarm knows
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(`GET /api/agents`, `/api/agents/status`), and the state it declares for
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each one on its hive (`up`/`offline`/`paused`/`destroyed`,
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`PUT /api/hives/{hive}/agents/{agent}/state`).
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- **Job graph** — a `hive-jobq` scheduler, served at `GET /api/jobq/graph`.
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Every provisioning step below runs as a node in it.
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- **Agent creation** — `POST /api/agents` queues the SSO identity (through
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`swarm-authelia-bridge`), forge user, config repo, store identity, forge
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token and matrix account, declares the agent `paused`, then sends its hive
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a deploy message.
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- **Agent credentials** — at start and every five minutes it re-checks every
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agent's forge token and matrix account, and renews store certificates and
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queue secrets as they age.
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- **Swarm-wide forge objects and webhooks** →
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[`docs/swarm/README.md`](../docs/swarm/README.md#swarm-wide-forge-objects).
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- **Relays** — each agent's terminal and turn-state header as SSE, agent
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icons, the cross-repo issue report, and the UI's quick links.
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It reads its configuration once at startup, from the environment the nix module
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sets. The one file it persists is `webhook-secret` in its state directory.
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The job graph lives in memory; hive status and wanted state live in the swarm
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queue, so both survive a restart.
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## Why a unix socket, not a port
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The hive-gateway's nginx is the only intended client and reaches the socket
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through a bind-mount. A listener that is never bound to an address cannot be
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reached from off-host by mistake.
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The socket path is `services.hyperhive.deploy.swarm-controller.socketPath`, default
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`/run/swarm-controller/controller.sock`, exported to the process as
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`SWARM_CONTROLLER_SOCKET`.
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## ⚠️ The socket's directory is its access control
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The socket is `0666`. It has to be: nginx runs as a different user and
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`connect(2)` needs write. This matches how `hive-c0re` publishes the per-agent
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sockets, and rests on the same argument — _"the bind source dir is per-agent on
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host so blast radius is unchanged."_
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What keeps that safe is that the directory holds **one** socket. So:
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> **Never point `socketPath` at a directory that carries anything else.**
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> `/run/hyperhive` above all — it holds `host.sock`, the host **admin** socket.
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> Pointing nginx at that directory to reach this socket would put the admin
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> socket within its reach too.
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nginx is a host service, so nothing narrows what it can reach except the
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directory itself — that is the whole of the access control. A unit test pins
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the default path so a tidying edit fails instead of reviewing cleanly.
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`RuntimeDirectoryPreserve=yes` and the daemon's stale-socket unlink on start are
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a **pair**: preserving the directory without the unlink means `bind` fails with
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`EADDRINUSE` after a restart.
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## Packaging
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Built by the workspace derivation and extracted as its own package
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(`nix build .#swarm-controller`). Deliberately **not** in `nix/packages`'
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`daemonBins` — that list is the core stack and drives the bundle
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`services.hyperhive.c0re.package` points at, so folding this in would put a
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swarm-scoped service into every hive's closure.
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