hyperhive/swarm-controller
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atlas 8b55a8b9fd feat(#3434): agent creation takes the hive it is aimed at
`POST /api/agents` now requires `hive` alongside `name`. It is parsed as
an `Ident` like `name` already was, and then checked against the roster
loaded from `SWARM_CONTROLLER_HIVES` -- a hive that is not in this swarm
is a 400 naming the ones that are, rather than a typo accepted and
forgotten. The roster check is what makes the field worth having; without
it nothing notices until a deploy message is addressed to a hive that
does not exist.

`hive` is an address, not an attribute of the agent: it is where a deploy
message goes over the queue, so nothing writes it into the agent's config
repo. A config naming its own hive would be a second statement of where
the agent lives, free to drift from the queue that actually delivers to
it.

It rides on the `InitAgentConfigRepo` node payload because the graph is
the only thing carrying the operator's choice forward from the API
boundary; seeding does not consume it. The node that routes on it is the
deploy node in #3124.

The refusal is asserted by effect -- the test checks that *nothing was
queued*, not just the status code, since a version that queued the graph
and then complained would satisfy a status-only assertion while still
creating the agent.

This is a breaking change for every existing caller: the swarm-UI create
page posts `{name}` only and needs its hive dropdown to land alongside.
2026-08-18 20:58:24 +02:00
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src feat(#3434): agent creation takes the hive it is aimed at 2026-08-18 20:58:24 +02:00
Cargo.toml feat(#3255): receive swarm-wide forge webhooks in the controller 2026-08-18 12:28:09 +02:00
README.md docs(gateway): describe what is, not what changed 2026-08-11 18:09:51 +02:00

swarm-controller

The swarm-level daemon. Where hive-c0re owns the agents on one host, this owns what is true across hives — so a swarm runs one of them and most hives leave it off.

Opt-in per host via services.hyperhive.swarm.controller.enable, which is deliberately not derived from services.hyperhive.enable: turning it on is a statement about swarm topology, not about whether hyperhive is installed.

What it does today

Serves one /health endpoint and holds no state.

That is the whole intent of the first slice. The point is to make the unit real — service user, runtime and state directories, socket, nginx reachability — so the swarm-level surfaces that follow have somewhere to land. Inventing those surfaces before they are agreed would bake in a shape nobody chose. See #3066 and the hyperhive.swarm consolidation epic.

Why a unix socket, not a port

The hive-gateway's nginx is the only intended client and reaches the socket through a bind-mount. A listener that is never bound to an address cannot be reached from off-host by mistake.

The socket path is services.hyperhive.swarm.controller.socketPath, default /run/swarm-controller/controller.sock, exported to the process as SWARM_CONTROLLER_SOCKET.

⚠️ The socket's directory is its access control

The socket is 0666. It has to be: nginx runs as a different user and connect(2) needs write. This matches how hive-c0re publishes the per-agent sockets, and rests on the same argument — "the bind source dir is per-agent on host so blast radius is unchanged."

What keeps that safe is that the directory holds one socket. So:

Never point socketPath at a directory that carries anything else. /run/hyperhive above all — it holds host.sock, the host admin socket. Pointing nginx at that directory to reach this socket would put the admin socket within its reach too.

nginx is a host service, so nothing narrows what it can reach except the directory itself — that is the whole of the access control. A unit test pins the default path so a tidying edit fails instead of reviewing cleanly.

RuntimeDirectoryPreserve=yes and the daemon's stale-socket unlink on start are a pair: preserving the directory without the unlink means bind fails with EADDRINUSE after a restart.

Packaging

Built by the workspace derivation and extracted as its own package (nix build .#swarm-controller). Deliberately not in nix/packages' daemonBins — that list is the core stack and drives the bundle services.hyperhive.c0re.package points at, so folding this in would put a swarm-scoped service into every hive's closure.