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atlas 657875b2fa hive-subagent-mcp: name a role at dispatch, load it as the system prompt
A `start` may now name a role: `role: "reviewer"` loads the spawning
agent's own `subagent_roles/reviewer.md` and renders it, alone, into one
per-session file that `--append-system-prompt-file` points at. The role is
the system prompt; the task is the turn, never the other way round — a
task baked into the system prompt would re-assert itself as an
instruction on every later turn of a continued session, not just the one
it was written for. The task instructions (`prompt_file`) are read and
folded ahead of the turn's own prompt instead, the same channel that
carries them to the subagent without a role.

The argument is optional, so every existing call is unchanged — pinned by
a test that a pre-role payload still deserializes with `role` absent from
the schema's required set, and another that the no-role path reaches
claude with the caller's own file, unrendered, and the trigger untouched.
With a role, one test pins the system-prompt file to the role's text and
nothing of the task, and another pins the task still reaching the
subagent as the turn's prompt.

A role name with no file fails the call, before the session name is even
reserved, and the error lists the roles the directory does hold. No agent
ships roles yet, so named-but-missing is the ordinary first-run state; a
fallback there would spawn a subagent under a prompt missing every clause
the role existed to carry. An empty file and a name that is not a plain
identifier refuse the same way.
2026-09-21 17:21:40 +02:00
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src hive-subagent-mcp: name a role at dispatch, load it as the system prompt 2026-09-21 17:21:40 +02:00
Cargo.toml subagent: hand a subagent its parent's built-in tools, and no others 2026-09-15 17:40:27 +02:00
README.md subagent: give each run its own signal URL, and drop the name argument 2026-09-14 22:24:51 +02:00

hive-subagent-mcp

Per-agent daemon (hive-subagent-daemon) that spawns nested headless claude sessions on request and serves the tool surface (start/continue/status/interrupt, plus a separate subagent-facing goal_reached/need_help route, one per-session URL) directly over streamable-http. No stdio bridge, no per-turn respawn — an agent's claude reconnects to the same stable URL every turn.

Independent of hive-bash-mcp — a subagent spawns a full nested claude session, a much heavier capability than a bash command, worth its own deployable/restartable unit.

Shape

One bin (hive-subagent-daemon, src/main.rs) built from the crate's own lib (src/lib.rs):

  • session.rs — the actual claude-facing logic: Claude::spawn + RunningClaude::wait/cancel_handle (not InfiniteSession::run, which has no cancel handle to reach in — see the module doc for the v1 scope this trades away), the turn-continuation loop a goal switches on, and the in-memory maps that are the only state this daemon keeps (no task files — a restart stops whatever's running; the actual claude session is the durable store, found again by name via hive_claude::SessionStore).
  • mcp.rs — the rmcp tool routers (the parent's start/continue/status/interrupt on /mcp, the subagent's goal_reached/need_help on /signal/mcp/<token>) + serve_http. Neither signal tool takes a session name: the token in the path is minted per run and resolved to a session before dispatch, so a subagent has no way to name — and therefore no way to signal — a sibling. One route with a path parameter, because the Router is built once at startup and sessions come and go for the daemon's whole life.
  • paths.rs — the in-agent todo-socket path.