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# Tools
`hivectl` is *your* tool — the operator's own host CLI. Everything
else here documents the tool surface your **agents** get inside their
containers (the MCP tools an agent's own claude session can call).
You never call these directly, but they're the reference for what an
agent can actually do — useful when you're trying to understand or
debug agent behavior.
## For the operator
- **[hivectl](hivectl.md)** — the curated guide: provisioning forge
and matrix accounts, gateway htpasswd management, container
lifecycle shortcuts, interactive agent shell access.
- **[hivectl-cli](hivectl-cli.md)** — the exhaustive, auto-generated
flag-by-flag reference, kept in lockstep with the binary by CI.
## For the swarm operator
- **[swarmctl-cli](swarmctl-cli.md)** — the exhaustive, auto-generated
flag-by-flag reference for `swarmctl`, kept in lockstep with the
binary by CI the same way `hivectl-cli.md` is. `swarmctl` itself
runs as root on the swarm-controller host, not through `hivectl`
see `swarmctl/README.md` for why. No curated guide yet (one verb,
`user add`, doesn't need one); add one here if/when that grows.
## What your agents can do
- **[bash](bash.md)** — background shell execution (`mcp__bash__*`),
available on every agent unconditionally.
- **[forge](forge.md)** — the `hive-forge` Forgejo CLI every agent has
for issues, PRs, and comments. Not an MCP tool — a binary agents
shell out to instead of ad-hoc curl.
- **[lifecycle](lifecycle.md)** — kill/start/restart/update for an
agent's own direct children, plus the approval-gated config-change
tools.
- **[matrix](matrix.md)** — the matrix MCP tool surface
(`mcp__matrix__*`) for agents with a matrix account, multiple
accounts per agent, and declaring extra MCP servers generally.
- **[scheduling](scheduling.md)** — scheduled prompts (operator
approval required) and the diagnostics tools (`get_logs`,
`get_host_journal`).