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atlas 9e7fdb55ae swarm-controller: make authelia's operators matrix homeserver admins 
swarm-authelia-bridge gains ListOperators, the usernames in authelia's
operator group (`operatorGroup = "admins"`, passed in from
swarm-authelia.nix). Unlike the two agent verbs, which admit any active
token, it answers only the client named by
SWARM_AUTHELIA_BRIDGE_OPERATOR_READER_CLIENT_ID (swarm-controller's
queueClientId) and returns 403 to every other active token: authelia
issues machine tokens to every hive and its agents as well. The bridge's
introspection now models `client_id` to make that check, the same way
swarm-nats-auth's does.

swarm-controller runs a grant-only pass at start and every five minutes:
read the group, map each username to the account an SSO login lands on
(tuwunel lowercases `preferred_username`), skip anyone already joined to
`#admins:<server>` (tuwunel's definition of admin) or without a matrix
account, and send `!admin users make-user-admin <user>` there as @swarm
with the swarm appservice token. Nothing is ever revoked: tuwunel has no
command for it (#4799).

The admin-room calls (alias, joined members, profile, send) go into
swarm-matrix-client next to whoami, keeping its no-body-in-errors rule.

Closes #4585
2026-10-04 16:45:08 +02:00
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src swarm-controller: make authelia's operators matrix homeserver admins 2026-10-04 16:45:08 +02:00
Cargo.toml swarm-controller: create every agent's subagent stream 2026-10-03 01:34:01 +02:00
README.md swarm UI: delete linked accounts — R2 fixes 2026-10-03 00:56:39 +02:00

README.md

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.deploy.hive-controller.enable: turning it on is a statement about swarm topology, not about whether this host runs a hive.

What it does

The swarm's control plane. The swarm UI and swarmctl are its clients.

  • Hive directory — serves swarm.hives (GET /api/hives) and what each hive last published about itself (GET /api/hives/status).
  • Agent roster and wanted state — every agent the swarm knows (GET /api/agents, /api/agents/status), and the state it declares for each one on its hive (up/offline/paused/destroyed, PUT /api/hives/{hive}/agents/{agent}/state).
  • Job graph — a hive-jobq scheduler, served at GET /api/jobq/graph. Every provisioning step below runs as a node in it.
  • Agent creation — POST /api/agents queues the SSO identity (through swarm-authelia-bridge), forge user, config repo, store identity, forge token and matrix account, declares the agent paused, then sends its hive a deploy message.
  • Agent credentials — at start and every five minutes it re-checks every agent's forge token and matrix account, and renews store certificates and queue secrets as they age.
  • Linked external accounts — an operator-supplied matrix, forge or GitHub account for one agent, stored in the swarm secret store (PUT /api/hives/{hive}/agents/{agent}/matrix-accounts/{account}, .../forge-accounts/{label}, .../github-account); distinct from the agent's own swarm-minted accounts above. GET .../linked-accounts lists them, plus the agent's own main matrix account, by kind, name and host, never with a credential. Each of the three also takes a DELETE; matrix's also takes ?revoke=true, which logs the stored token out at its homeserver first and leaves the account in place if that fails.
  • Config PR status — each agent's open config-repo PR, cached from forge webhooks (GET /api/config-prs, /api/agents/{name}/config-pr).
  • Swarm-wide forge objects and webhooks → docs/swarm/README.md.
  • Relays — each agent's terminal and turn-state header as SSE, agent icons, the cross-repo issue report, and the UI's quick links.

It reads its configuration once at startup, from the environment the nix module sets. The one file it persists is webhook-secret in its state directory. The job graph lives in memory; hive status and wanted state live in the swarm queue, so both survive a restart.

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.