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mara on #4015: "not merging code without callers", and on the same PR
"see issue, we decided what the first thing should be". #3726 decided it:
the controller writes a token to the store and tells the hive; the hive
reads it back and writes /agents/<agent>/state/matrix-token-<account> at
0600, where matrix.nix's existing systemd.paths glob re-fires the daemon.
So this is the hive half of that, and the library's first caller.

The notice names a credential and never carries one, and deploy_subject's
own doc is why: the auth-callout responder scopes publish and leaves sub
unrestricted, so a hive that wanted another's messages could subscribe to
them. A secret in that payload would be readable swarm-wide. The value is
read from the store under the reading hive's own certificate, where the
store's policy is what actually scopes it.

Two boundaries guard the two addresses, and they are not the same check.
`path::matrix_account` guards the address in the store. `Ident` guards the
address on disk -- `agent_state_dir` takes one, so an unvalidated name off
the queue cannot reach a directory. I had written the first and assumed it
covered both; the compiler refused the `&str` and was right. `token_path`
now takes the newtype so a call site cannot forget.

The write is atomic because the path-watcher fires on the file appearing:
written in place it would be visible while partial, and the daemon would
read a truncated credential exactly once, which is the hardest possible
failure to reproduce. The temp name is dot-prefixed so it cannot match the
`matrix-token*` glob on its way past.

The publish grant is here because without it the failure is invisible.
policy.rs already says why for its siblings: a refused publish reaches the
client as a timeout, so the symptom is a hive that never receives a
credential with nothing in either log naming a permission. Two tests: the
controller may publish, a hive may not -- its own subject included. A
forged notice leaks nothing, but it would make a hive fetch and overwrite
a token file for a name the forger chose.

Refs #3726
2026-09-03 00:29:52 +02:00
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src hive-c0re: deliver an agent's credential from the store to its state dir 2026-09-03 00:29:52 +02:00
Cargo.toml hive-c0re: deliver an agent's credential from the store to its state dir 2026-09-03 00:29:52 +02:00
README.md docs: restructure into topic subdirectories, collapse duplicated index 2026-09-02 01:55:37 +02:00

hive-c0re

The unprivileged host daemon (runs as hive-core). Owns the sqlite broker, the approval/reminder/schedule queues, the generic job-DAG queue, container lifecycle, gateway/forge/matrix provisioning, per-container stats, and the axum operator dashboard. Largest crate in the workspace — bin-only, no separate lib.

When to use it

Host-level, cross-container orchestration: spawning/rebuilding/ destroying agent containers, the approval flow, dashboard-visible state, provisioning per-agent forge/matrix/gateway accounts. Agent-side behavior (turn loop, MCP tools) lives in hive-agent/hive-agent-mcp instead — this daemon only talks to agents over the socket wire types in hive-sh4re.

Shape

Cohesive clusters live in directory submodules, each re-exported at the crate root (crate::broker::… keeps resolving regardless of which subdirectory a module actually lives in). One line each — read the module's own //! doc-comment for real detail, don't expect this file to track it:

  • dashboard/ — the operator dashboard (containers, approvals, schedules, logs, topology).
  • job_queue/ — the job-DAG queue + desired-state reconciliation (docs/scheduler/coordinator.md).
  • lifecycle/nixos-container lifecycle + per-agent config flake generation.
  • stores/ — sqlite-backed stores (broker, queues, audit, power).
  • workers/ — background sweeps (crash watch, scheduled prompts, auto-update, knowledge sync).
  • agent_config/ — per-agent registries (tool groups, capabilities, resource limits, topology).
  • stats/ — dashboard metrics aggregation + OTEL export.
  • socket_server/ — the unix-socket request server shared by per-agent + manager sockets.
  • forge/ — optional Forgejo wiring (docs/integrations/forge.md).
  • coordinator.rs — top-level wiring for serve.
  • meta.rs, migrate.rs — the meta flake + schema/state migrations.
  • matrix.rs, gateway_nginx.rs, webhook_secret.rs, priv_client.rs — matrix provisioning, gateway vhosts, webhook secrets, and the hive-priv client respectively.

See the top-level CLAUDE.md/docs/ index for the full reading-path map.