hyperhive/docs/swarm/ui.md

# Swarm UI

The swarm's own web surface and the operator's day-to-day view: served by
the gateway on the **swarm apex** (`services.hyperhive.swarm.domain`),
readable only by operators. The per-hive dashboard, on each hive's own
domain, covers host-level detail for one hive.

## What it shows

| route                     | what                                                                                        |
| ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `/`                       | the hive directory, each hive with its last reported status                                 |
| `/agents`                 | every agent: status, config PR, wanted state; create agents, link forge and matrix accounts |
| `/agents/<name>/terminal` | one agent's live terminal                                                                   |
| `/jobs`                   | the controller's job graph — where agent creation and credential mints show progress        |
| `/issues`                 | a cross-repo issue report                                                                   |

Everything it shows comes from [`swarm-controller`](../../swarm-controller/README.md).
An agent created here or with `swarmctl agent create` starts `paused`; set it
`up` from its card.

### Linking external accounts

Each agent on `/agents` opens two dialogs that write a credential for it
into the swarm secret store through swarm-controller. Both are blind
set/update actions: no route lists linked accounts or hands a token back.

- **link a matrix account** — `PUT /api/hives/{hive}/agents/{agent}/matrix-accounts/{account}`,
  either a pasted bearer token or a user id + password that
  swarm-controller logs in with, storing the token it gets back.
- **link a forge account** — `PUT /api/hives/{hive}/agents/{agent}/forge-accounts/{label}`
  with a forge URL and an access token, stored at
  `swarm/agents/<agent>/forge/<label>`. The agent's
  `hive-agent-forge-accounts` unit fetches it into
  `<state>/forge-<label>-token` and `<state>/forge-<label>.json`, the files
  `hive-forge -f <label>` reads. The unit never deletes a pair: linking
  the same label again overwrites both files, and a pair whose label the
  store doesn't list stays untouched.

Where each credential lives and who reads it:
[`credentials.md`](credentials.md).

## Enabling

```nix
services.hyperhive.deploy.swarm-ui.enable = true;   # defaults to deploy.swarm-controller.enable
```

Derived from the controller rather than from `allSwarmServices`:
the UI is a view onto the controller's state and reaches it over that
daemon's socket, so the host that runs the controller is the host that
can serve the UI. A hive that merely _uses_ a swarm has nothing to serve.

The UI answers on `services.hyperhive.swarm.domain` and nothing else. It
shares that name with the swarm-controller it fronts — one service to a
reader and to a certificate — so there is no separate option to pin.

> The apex must differ from `services.hyperhive.domain`. The gateway's
> default server already answers for the hive domain, and two vhosts
> claiming one `server_name` don't error — nginx picks one — so this is
> an assertion rather than a runtime surprise.

## 🔑 You must be in the `admins` group

**This is the step that separates "protected" from "locked out."** The
vhost's `auth_request` asks authelia _"is there a session"_; the rule
that makes it mean _"is this an operator"_ is an `access_control` entry
requiring `group:admins`. An account without that group authenticates
fine and still gets bounced.

```sh
swarmctl user add <you> --email <you>@example.com --group admins
swarmctl user update <you> --add-group admins   # an account that already exists
```

`--email` isn't needed for the UI, but the forge won't create your account
without one → [setup.md § 2](../getting-started/setup.md#2--your-sso-account).

Why a group and not "any session": agents are authelia subjects too, so
_authenticated_ includes every agent in the swarm. The group is the only
thing standing between "an operator's page" and "anyone with a session."

## What it costs to be reachable

hyperhive publishes the apex to the hive's resolver like every other
swarm service, so agent containers can resolve it. That's deliberate and it's
not a hole: **reachability isn't the access control here.** An agent
that resolves the name and connects still has no operator session, and
the subrequest denies it.

## Quick links

The swarm UI's header carries a single 🔗 button, visible on every route,
opening a popover of links to other swarm-wide services. Backed by
`GET /api/links` (swarm-controller), which serves
`services.hyperhive.swarm.controller.links` (a `listOf { label, icon, url }`,
same shape as the per-agent `services.hyperhive.agent.dashboardLinks`).

Each service's own module contributes its entry when it's enabled on the
controller's host — `swarm-authelia.nix`, `hive-matrix.nix`,
`hive-forge/default.nix`, `swarm-grafana.nix`, `swarm-victorialogs.nix`, and
`swarm-ui.nix` for this UI's own API docs. Adding a link for a new service is
a nix-only change to that service's module, or an operator adding an entry
directly. An empty list hides the button.

The **Matrix** entry opens the swarm's matrix web client (fluffychat,
`services.hyperhive.deploy.matrix.gui.package`) at the homeserver's
gateway host, `chat.<swarm domain>` by default. `hive-matrix.nix` adds it
only when `services.hyperhive.deploy.matrix.gui.enable` is on and the
homeserver has a gateway host, the same condition under which that vhost
serves the client at `/`.

<details><summary>Adding a swarm service name: the two wiring sites</summary>

Adding a swarm service name means touching two things. Missing the
second ships as a different flavour of "works from the host, broken from
a container":

| site                         | file                                                                   |
| ---------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| vhost + `gateway.localNames` | the service's own module (for example `nix/host-modules/swarm-ui.nix`) |
| **certificate name**         | `nix/host-modules/swarm.nix` (`serviceDomains`)                        |

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The DNS record and the local-dev `/etc/hosts` entry need no separate
edit: both derive from `services.hyperhive.gateway.localNames`,
which a service's own module already has to push its domain into to be
resolvable — see `nix/host-modules/hive-gateway/dnsmasq.nix` and
`.../default.nix`'s `networking.hosts`. `vhosts.nix` itself is scoped to
the surface the hive's own domain serves (dashboard, per-agent routing,
matrix discovery); a swarm service declares its own vhost next to its
own options, the way `swarm-ui.nix` and `swarm-authelia.nix` do.

<!-- vale write-good.Passive = YES -->

⚠️ The certificate one is the hardest to predict and the most visible when
missed. `serviceDomains` is _both_ the `allowed_domains` the secret
store's `pki/roles/swarm-services` narrows to and the list each gateway's
leaf draws its SANs from (it carries the ones that host fronts),
and the apex is a **sibling** of `forge.<swarm>` / `chat.<swarm>` /
`auth.<swarm>`, not a parent — no CA in the hierarchy issues for it
implicitly. Left out, the vhost falls back to the hive leaf and the
swarm's front page opens with a name mismatch.

</details>

## Cross-references

- [`sso.md`](sso.md) — the authelia instance itself, and the user store.
- [`../networking/gateway.md`](../networking/gateway.md) — the full vhost map and TLS modes.