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atlas c74249f371 matrix: make the hive-internal main account an ordinary matrixAccounts entry
`matrixAccounts` is meant to be the agent's full account list, but the
hive-internal `main` account was outside it: the nix module emitted only
the extras and `hive-matrix-daemon` prepended a `main` it synthesized
from the per-agent paths, with the option schema forbidding the name
outright.

nix/agent-modules/matrix.nix now declares `main` itself, as an ordinary
entry under `matrix.enable`, from the state-dir paths the module already
used for its token path-watcher (now a shared `stateDir` binding) plus
`matrix.url`. The whole set, `main` included, is serialized to
HIVE_MATRIX_ACCOUNTS.

accounts::configured therefore synthesizes `main` only when the parsed
list carries none, and otherwise takes the declared one verbatim —
hoisting it to index 0, since the daemon reads index 0 as the primary
and nix serializes an attrset, so `main` sorts wherever its key falls.
Declared xor synthesized: an agent whose harness predates this entry
keeps working, a current one gets its own, and there is no arrangement
where `main` is duplicated or missing.

The reserved-name assertion is replaced rather than dropped: the name
must now be legal (the module uses it), but `main`'s tokenFile stays
pinned to `<state>/matrix-token`, since hive-c0re provisions the
hive-internal token there and nowhere else — a retarget would evaluate
fine and then never restore. The other two fields are mkDefault and free
to override.

Refs #4475
2026-09-18 09:34:44 +02:00
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src matrix: make the hive-internal main account an ordinary matrixAccounts entry 2026-09-18 09:34:44 +02:00
Cargo.toml convert hand-written enum as_str matches to strum derives workspace-wide 2026-09-12 00:06:31 +02:00
README.md check-issue-refs: catch full forge issue URLs too, drop internal links from docs entirely 2026-09-09 21:15:28 +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.deploy.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 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.deploy.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.