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atlas 3752482524 swarm: let every hive read every agent's credential, and say so
A hive reads its agents' credentials with its own certificate, and nothing
said which paths that certificate may read, so the read half of a delivery
answered 403.

The grant is wide on purpose. An agent's path does not name the hive
hosting it -- agents move -- so a per-hive grant has to be an enumeration
the controller re-emits whenever the roster changes, and an enumeration
that can drift or land out of order advertises a boundary it does not
hold. A wide grant that says what it is beats a narrow one that only looks
narrow. mara's call, on the PR: rather a too-lax scope than one that
pretends to be strict.

What that buys, beyond honesty: the document is identical for every hive
and depends on nothing, so it is written once at startup beside the rest of
a hive's provisioning instead of on every declaration. No derived state, no
re-emission, and the ordering hazard that came with one stops existing.

What still holds is read-only. A hive cannot write an agent's credential,
so it cannot hand itself an agent's identity, and the grant reaches nothing
in the store outside the agent-credential prefix.

The fact is documented where someone meets the boundary rather than only in
this message, and the two ways to narrow it later -- scope per hive, or
give agents their own store identity -- are tracked.
2026-09-09 18:40:41 +02:00
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agent-lifecycle docs: name the specific daemon instead of the vague 'backend' 2026-09-09 17:59:10 +02:00
crates docs: fix the one passive-voice hit in docs/crates/README.md 2026-09-08 12:15:53 +02:00
getting-started docs: fix a Contractions + Passive regression in setup.md 2026-09-09 15:58:32 +02:00
integrations docs: fix genuine Microsoft.Contractions/Negative errors 2026-09-09 01:48:46 +02:00
networking docs: name the specific daemon instead of the vague 'backend' 2026-09-09 17:59:10 +02:00
process docs: name the specific daemon instead of the vague 'backend' 2026-09-09 17:59:10 +02:00
scheduler docs: fix genuine Microsoft.Contractions/Negative errors 2026-09-09 01:48:46 +02:00
swarm docs/swarm: re-pad README table after the unknown-row rewrite 2026-09-08 15:54:16 +02:00
tools docs: fix genuine Microsoft.Contractions/Negative errors 2026-09-09 01:48:46 +02:00
trust-boundary swarm: let every hive read every agent's credential, and say so 2026-09-09 18:40:41 +02:00
turn-loop docs: fix genuine Microsoft.Contractions/Negative errors 2026-09-09 01:48:46 +02:00
web-ui docs: name the specific daemon instead of the vague 'backend' 2026-09-09 17:59:10 +02:00
README.md docs: remove hyphens from auto-X compounds per Microsoft.Auto style 2026-09-07 16:28:06 +02:00

hyperhive docs

Depth reference for hyperhive — the substrate, not the pitch (that's the top-level README / website). Every page here stands alone; pick the one matching your task rather than reading top to bottom. For the autogenerated NixOS options reference (every services.hyperhive.* / hyperhive.* option, host and agent), see the options site instead — this tree is prose, that one's generated straight from the module declarations.

Getting started

  • Bringing a fresh hive online?getting-started/setup.md (first-run hivectl bootstrap).
  • What does the dashboard look like, and how do I use it?web-ui/ — the operator-facing starting point; its own sub-pages (shape, dashboard, agent, css-vars, terminal-rendering) go deeper into implementation.
  • What tools does an agent (or the operator) have available?tools/hivectl (yours) plus every agent's MCP tool surface (bash, forge, lifecycle, matrix, scheduling).

Agent lifecycle

Trust boundary & security

Accounts & integrations

  • How do per-agent forge accounts work? What does forge_notify poll, and how does it format wake messages?integrations/forge.md (the hive's own Forgejo); tools/forge.md for the hive-forge CLI verbs agents actually call.
  • How does the matrix-tuwunel container work? Multiple accounts per agent?integrations/matrix.md (the homeserver); tools/matrix.md for the MCP tool surface and hyperhive.matrixAccounts.
  • How do I give an agent a GitHub account (gh + git push)? how's the PAT injected?integrations/github.md (operator content up top; the gh/git-push + notification-poller mechanics are in a collapsed "Implementation" section at the bottom).
  • What's /knowledge? How does the hive-wide knowledge repo sync, and how do I contribute a document?integrations/knowledge.md.
  • What does hivectl do? Provisioning, gateway users, container shells?tools/hivectl.md (the curated guide); tools/hivectl-cli.md for the exhaustive, autogenerated flag reference.

Networking & swarms

  • What nginx vhosts does the gateway serve? How does matrix discovery work?networking/gateway.md.
  • How does DNS resolution work in agent containers? What's the bridge network for?networking/network.md.
  • How do I connect two hives into a swarm?swarm/ (peer hives, TLS trust).
  • Where do agent snapshots go? How does the swarm's btrfs receive endpoint authenticate a pushing hive?networking/snapshot-store.md.

Scheduler, CI, observability

  • what's the job queue, as a general idea (not hive-c0re specifics)?scheduler/jobq.md — operator-facing, no implementation detail.
  • How does the rebuild queue work? What are the concrete step kinds, queue sources, scheduler internals?scheduler/coordinator.md.
  • How does the CI runner work? What's the autoregistration flow?scheduler/ci.md.
  • How do I export Claude Code metrics (tokens, cost, tool calls) to Prometheus/Grafana?scheduler/observability.md.

Crate reference

  • What does a specific Rust crate do, on its own terms?crates/ — every workspace crate's own README.md, one level up from source (hyperhive#3051); the crate itself is still the source of truth, this is just a walkable mirror.

Process & conventions